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Signature Lux by ONOMO Hotel Sandton – a supporter of conservation

Signature Lux by ONOMO Hotel Sandton – a supporter of conservation

SIGNITURE LUX BY ONOMO HOTEL SANDTON

– a supporter of conservation

The month of June marked two years since Signature Lux by ONOMO Sandton began to support the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s (EWT) critical conservation work. So far, this unique relationship has generated just over half a million rand in support of the EWT.

Due to a demand for flexible travel and accommodation, Signature Lux by ONOMO Hotel Sandton’s brand was developed. Similar to the low-cost airline model, Signature Lux has removed all the unnecessary items and hidden costs, in order to provide guests with consistent service with a luxury feel at an affordable price.

Catering to the millennial and business traveller, Signature Lux by ONOMO Hotel Sandton offers smart technology; free unshaped, uncapped Wi-Fi, an integrated app, which offers more than just a booking function, 24-hour self-service check-in, guests can use their smartphones as their room key and in-room Wi-Fi calling. Signature Lux by ONOMO Hotels has created a technologically advanced room space using specialised ambient mood lighting and installed a fully integrated 40-inch SMART Samsung TV, which allows guests to live stream from Netflix or Showmax, in each room. Every room has a built in Wi-Fi router, allowing a seamless high-speed internet experience.

Guests can expect an unsurpassed sleep experience with the oversized queen beds that have a 3 cm mattress topper and 300-thread count linen. The app integrates housekeeping, which automates guests’ valet and laundry service.

Signature Lux by ONOMO Hotel Sandton General Manager, Christine Swanepoel, shares her thoughts on embracing what the new age traveller has been demanding: affordability, freedom, and quality. One of the key and totally unique strategic offerings is a half day room rate, offering business travellers and those in transit the option of a half day stay or a guaranteed early check-in or late departure at a highly discounted rate. Business day visitors no longer need to worry about finding a café with Wi-Fi and spending exorbitant amounts on a coffee and sandwich. They too can take advantage of the transit rates, which allow guests the luxury of utilising the room to freshen up and work, free parking, high-speed, uncapped Wi-Fi, free coffee and easy access to the Gautrain station, which is only a 15-minute train ride to OR Tambo International Airport.

Signature Lux by ONOMO Hotels have delivered a modern, chic, trendy, creative and eco-friendly hotel product. Christine and the Signature Lux team strive to be environmentally friendly and focus on reducing their carbon footprint. Signature Lux by ONOMO Hotel Sandton has its own water filtration plant onsite to reduce the need for harmful plastics, and reducing water consumption, all the hotel products and consumables are environmentally friendly and biodegradable.

Through our contributions to the EWT, Signature Lux by ONOMO Hotel Sandton is proud to be a part of protecting the environment for future generations.

Going the extra mile

Going the extra mile

GOING THE EXTRA MILE

Frank Jackson, EWT Business Development Officer

FrankJ@ewt.org.za

On 21 September, the More Community Trust hosted the Extra Mile, the trail run with heart, sponsored by Investec Rhino Lifeline. This incredible event was conceptualised in 2018 to raise awareness of communities’ needs for basic services as well as the importance of conservation, and has grown in 2019 to an event with purpose, joining people from all walks of life and connecting communities and conservation meaningfully.

The 2019 event consisted of four sub-events: a community education day and trail run pre-registration on 20 September and the trail run and fundraising dinner on 21 September. Investec Rhino Lifeline covered all costs, enabling all the fundraising to go to the beneficiaries of the event: More Community Trust’s Rural Water Project, Good Work Foundation’s Huntington Digital Learning Campus and the EWT’s Wild Dog Project.

The day was a huge success, with runners joining from all corners of South Africa to partake in a gruelling 10 km and 21 km trail run through Sabi Sands’ neighbouring rural villages and the area’s natural rangelands. Runners crossed the finish line to the motivating voice of our MC Warrior Ric. The day ended on the banks of the Sabie River, at Protea Hotel Paul Kruger Gate for our fundraising dinner and auction, under the stars with the hippos and frogs filling in as musicians.