Free Wi-Fi connects Tsogo Sun guests to the world

Comfortable room? Check. Glorious view? Check. Convenient location? Check. Wi-Fi that gives me free high speed access to the world at a generous data limit each day? Only at Tsogo Sun Hotels ...

Easy access to Wi-Fi for quick and constant connectivity is an essential part of both business and leisure travel and is fast becoming a key factor in the choice of hotels for local and international travellers.

In its ongoing quest to create great experiences, Tsogo Sun has installed high speed quality connectivity Wi-Fi in all its hotels that is free up to a varying data limit per room per day, depending on which grade of hotel the guest is staying in.

Enjoy the following daily data allowance:

750MB per room per day at our Deluxe hotels (54 on Bath, Beverly Hills, Palazzo Montecasino, Sandton Sun, Suncoast Towers)

500MB per room per day at our Southern Sun Hotels

350MB per room per day at our Garden Court hotels

250MB per room per day at our Stay Easy hotels

The free high speed, quality connectivity Wi-Fi service was launched in Tsogo Sun hotels at the start of June 2013, setting a new Wi-Fi standard in the hospitality industry in South Africa.

“We were determined to get our Wi-Fi offering right in terms of what our guests need – whether they’re business or leisure travellers,” explains Graham Wood, Tsogo Sun hotels Managing Director. "Our Wi-Fi offering is free from the first connection and we have set the cap in our different hotels at levels that would suit even the most technophilic of our guests.”

Hotel guests will now be able to download emails, upload presentations, surf the web, share holiday photographs, stay connected on social media and so much more – all for free. “Our absolute non-negotiable in introducing this service was that it should provide our guests with completely hassle-free and seamless Wi-Fi access that would allow them to remain connected – whether they are having a business meeting in Sandton, soaking up the sun in Durban, attending a conference in Cape Town or enjoying some downtime in Nelspruit,” adds Wood.

For more information go to www.tsogosun.com.

Forever New's Botanica Collection

Inspired by bouquets of blooms and Monet’s garden landscapes the new Botanica Collection from Forever New offers fresh, new found femininity ...

The softest of flowers set against painted, flowering, garden landscapes conjures a delicate palette reminiscent of Ladurée macaroons; with shades of aqua mist, apricot sorbet, powder blue, lilac, petal pink and Chantilly cream. 

Watercolour floral silk prints flow on evening gowns, with prom dresses featuring lace, crochet and delicate embroidery details. Flounces and ruffles create beautiful movement in the softest of shades, while blossom applique details are delicately feminine. 

The gentle and romantic story is set off with sparkling jewels that are intricately detailed with petal shapes and ladylike pearls. Pastel rose-hued party heels and embellished modern box clutches provide the polished finishing touches for occasion looks. 

Some of my favourite pieces from the Collection:

Jenny Frill Front Dress Floral Print R1499

Left to Right: Tamara Twist Back Tank Abstract Floral Print R449; Lottie Shimmer Scarf in Porcelain R229

Snow Maxi Dress Water Floral R1999

Sweet Sorbet Clutch in Aquatic Mist R299

Lydia Lace Cape Dress in Vintage Cream R899

Alizia Embellished Stretch Bracelet in Mint R199

Soft, fresh and entirely feminine, Botanica brings the promise of spring into full bloom. The collection will be available in all Forever New stores and select Edgars stores from 10 July 2013. 

All images via Forever New

Get your bets in for the Big Chill at Montecasino

Montecasino has just launched their thrilling Big Chill No Limit Texas Hold’em Poker tournament with a R10 000 Freezeout ...

Winter has arrived, and there’s no better way to warm up than to get your heart racing with a thrilling poker game. This is exactly what THE BIG CHILL is offering you! It’s your chance to be a part of the poker action, PLUS stand a chance to win your share of an estimated prize pool of R800 000. 

Win your seat: 

Buy-in to one of the satellite tournaments on Monday 1 and 8 July 2013 and on Wednesday 3 and 10 July at 19h30. Registration for the satellites will take place at the Poker Lounge approximately two hours prior to each satellite tournament is due to start. The more entrants there are in the satellites the higher chances you have of winning your seat into the main event. 

Buy your seat:

You can already purchase your seat into the main event on 13 and 14 July at the Montecasino Cash Desk for R10 000. 

Think you have what it takes to beat the chill? 

For full details, for full details visit www.montecasino.co.za

Call it Spring Celebrates the Local in Us All!

CALL IT SPRING takes you to a forgotten seaside resort and amusement park in its spring 2013 campaign. Live the memories first hand as we join a local group of friends, as they become tourists in their own town. It’s a local’s only adventure, and we’re tagging along for the ride ...

Enjoy the freedom of the off‐season, and reclaim the city! Explore your favorite summer haunts before the tourists take over the town. The boys skateboard in empty pools and across the promenade, while girls play hard‐to‐get at the arcade, sipping on slurpees wearing sorbet tinted wedges. Everyone is dreaming of sneaking a kiss under the boardwalk as they anxiously wait for summer to make an appearance tomorrow, while living the romance of the spring season today. 

Season after season, the CALL IT SPRING campaign follows a group of friends on everyday adventures. Filled with idiosyncratic moments, these journeys help them carve out their identities and discover what it means to be unique. Always taking a personal and poetic angle, CALL IT SPRING's campaigns play on the thoughts and dreams of this generation, catering to their need of individuality.

Topshop: The Bronzing Collection - SS13

Topshop Make Up’s NEW Bronzing Collection takes inspiration from LA’s coolest beach skin. As summer fashion sees a return to considered fabrics and styling, the look is polished bronzed beauty with barely-there, sheer accents ...

THE CONCEPT: 

Launching alongside high summer fashion, Topshop Make Up’s NEW Bronzing Collection introduces a palette of tonal bronze shades that sculpt, highlight and enhance higher planes of the face. Formulas melt into skin to give the illusion of an illuminated veil, liquid gold with subliminally creamy textures. 

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS: 

The star of summer make up, the NEW Bronzing Brick is an embossed trio of bronze shades to illuminate and brighten the higher planes of face, blendable spherical powders glide on easily to leave skin glowing. 

NEW All Over Glow is liquid luminescence for the face & body, delivering an LA glow that has a lightweight fluidity to its formula with a blendable, soft and bouncy texture. Rich in superfine, multi reflecting pearls, light rebounds off skin for a polished beauty that radiates in the sunlight. Applied directly to the higher planes of the face or mix with foundation for a sheer, illuminated beauty, the multi functional All Over Glow is London’s answer to LA bronze. 

The ultimate NEW Matt Bronzer is designed to shape, contour and warm the complexion. Developed in two super luxe shades, this versatile compact powder is formulated with mineral pigments and treated with silicone oil and rice starch for the perfect colour pay off with a lightweight, silky texture. 

THE COLLECTION:

BRONZING BRICK IN REFLECT 

An embossed trio of bronze shades to illuminate and brighten the higher planes of face, blendable spherical powders glide on easily to leave skin glowing. 

ALL OVER GLOW IN SPECTRUM 

Liquid bronze for the face and body, a lightweight formula with soft, bouncy texture that is easy to blend and build colour. 

MATT BRONZER IN SANDCASTLE (LIGHT) AND MOHAWK (DARK) 

Formulated using Light Flex Technology, these highly pigmented formulas guarantee a silky smooth and vibrant finish. 

LIP COLOURS IN LOLLY (PINK) AND SWIRL (CORAL) 

Two new lip balms in sheer coral and pink. The innovative formula combines acai oil, cherry extracts and safflower oil to deliver an ultra lightweight creamy finish.

Comedian Russell Brand comes to South Africa

Comedian, actor and author, Russell Brand recently announced his first ever world stand-up tour that includes South Africa with two shows at the Teatro at Montecasino on 16 and 17 November 2013 and one show in Cape Town on 19th November 2013 at the Artscape Opera House. The South African leg of Brand's world tour is presented by Showtime Management and 94.7 Highveld Stereo in association with Phil McIntyre Entertainment ...

Keeping in line with Brand’s comedic style, the tour, officially named “Messiah Complex,” will be a dissection of various social and religious figures and the reality of their lives through comparisons of each other. Messiah Complex is a mental disorder where you think you might be the messiah. Did Jesus have it? What about Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Hitler? All these men have shaped our lives and influenced the way we think. Their images are used to represent ideas that often do not relate to them at all. Would Gandhi be into apple? Would Che Guevara endorse Madonna? Would Jesus be into Christianity? All great people are flawed, all of us, flawed people are capable of greatness and for every identifiable icon there is an anonymous mob of unrecognized bods doing all the admin and heavy lifting. This show looks at the importance of heroes in this age of atheistic disposability. Plus there's sex. Obviously.

Brand states, “I am going to tour The World (our one, Earth) with Messiah Complex, causing bother and excitement and offering opinions that have not been either solicited or thought through. Of course I'll be in English speaking countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada) but also Scandinavia, Russia, Israel, Palestine; anywhere that will have me to be honest and that are relaxed about free speech. As well as theaters I will be appearing in prisons, drug rehabs, social network HQs, universities, nationalist organisations, Mosques, foreclosed houses, protest sites, Synagogues and in people's private homes. I dedicate this Messiah Complex tour to the four men that are it's subject, Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Jesus- I know this is what they would have wanted. If this is the end of the world I'm going to go out laughing with an erection.”

Book now at Computicket (PRICES: R350.00 to R550.00) service centers, visit www.computicket.com or call 0861 8139000. Cape Town bookings are also available at Artscape Dial-A-Seat on 021 421 7695. To experience one of the great-value Montecasino Show & Stay packages to enjoy choice hospitality packages, call 011 367 4250, or email montecasino.reservations@tsogosun.com, for more info visit www.montecasino.co.za

Hello July!