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Promenade PERFECTION

Having worked here for 57 years, the Edward Hotelʼs concierge Freddy Pather might have met my parents or even my great grandparents. Before I was born, my parents visited the hotel for the curry – ʻthe best in Durban,ʼ they enthused. Years before that, my pops (under the watchful eye of my great grandfather) splashed about in the circular pools that lie out front. Some 30 years after, my partner, Scott, and I checked in. ʻWelcome to the first five-star hotel in Durban,ʼ said Freddy.

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