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Traditional sugar farm homestead in a beautiful garden bordering Eshowe, offering country hospitality, healthy breakfasts and personal service. Relax in two spacious, private self-catering garden cottages, with twin, queen-or king-size beds. There is also a lovely farm cottage with three bedrooms which sleeps five, especially suitable for families or birders. It has two bathrooms, a large sitting room, well-equipped kitchen, veranda, braai, and lots of space. Breakfast is available looking out over beautiful views of rolling cane-fields, cattle and the farm dam. Cool off in a sparkling pool after tennis, cycling, and the trampoline! Free WiFi. DSTV. Banana, protea and sugar farm tours are available. Great birding in the garden and forests on the farm. Zulu crafts, Fort Nongqayi Museum Village and Dlinza Forest Aerial Boardwalk are nearby. Easy day trips to Game Reserves, beaches and Zulu cultural villages. Opposite 18-hole Eshowe Hills Golf Course.
Great hosts, very comfortable spacious accommodation, wonderful environment on a farm with beautiful gardens, close enough to town to visit Dept of Home Affairs as well as the Dlinza forest with its tree top walk where we saw the beautiful Narina Trogon. It is also worth visiting the fort, chapel & craft centre where staff conduct tours.
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Date of stay: November 2023Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Response from Jane Chennells, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded 1 week ago
Dear Ken F, What a lovely review, much appreciated. Nice to know you recommended the great places Eshowe has to visit as a tourist, and saw some special birds in the Dinza Forest. Hope you will return in Protea -picking season from April onwards, for a real farm treat! Kindest regards.
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We had such a lovely at the Chase. Such wonderful and accommodating hosts. We will definitely be back in the future. We stayed for four nights and had such a great time. Such beautiful views from the guest house.
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Date of stay: March 2023Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Response from Jane Chennells, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded Apr 5, 2023
Thank you for your super review! It was great having such appreciatiive fellow Zimbabweans to stay.
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Thank you to our lovely and extremely hospitable and attentive host, Jane, for a very memorable stop over. Like previous reviews mention, the gardens are remarkably gorgeous, accommodation are spacious and comfortable and you are treated to delightful fresh fruit, high quality biscuits, hot chocolate as well as a free car wash. Even the farm pets were welcoming and a treat on their own, especially to our children. We also felt safe, despite the rural setting of the property. Keep up the good work Jane.
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Date of stay: December 2022Trip type: Traveled with family
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Response from Jane Chennells, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded Dec 27, 2022
Thank you so much for your much-appreciated review!
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We are from Canada and we were visiting family in South Africa. We had a very long road trip so decided to book Chase Guest House for the night to break up the journey. If we had known how amazing our experience would be we would have planned to stay much longer! Upon our arrival we were met by the friendliest hostess you could ever ask for. Jane greeted us with a friendly smile and showed us around the charming farm house. She took our son to the kitchen and showed him the important things like where the biscuits and hot chocolate were 🙂 After dark Jane popped over to check in on us and brought us a bottle of the most delicious wine and the biggest avocado I have ever seen! We put that avo on toast in the morning and it fed all 5 of us! In the morning before we left we walked around the beautiful gardens with our coffee. What a magical peaceful place. As we loaded up our vehicles to go we noticed that our cars had been cleaned. I have never experienced this kind of 5 star service in my life. On our way out Jane met us at the gate to say goodbye, wish us a safe journey and give us some of the most delicious sweet bananas we ever tasted. The avocado and the bananas were grown on the property. Thank you so much for everything Jane. We hope to be back one day and spend more time there. Our one night stay there was one of the highlights of our whole trip!…
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Date of stay: May 2022Trip type: Traveled with family
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Response from Jane Chennells, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded Sep 2, 2022
Thank you so much for your wonderful review, Brett! We thoroughly enjoyed having you and your family to stay, and am pleased you were able to take back some good South African memories to Canada. I hope you will visit us again one day!
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A really relaxing place with gorgeous gardens to enjoy. Jane is the most wonderful host, checking up on you and making sure you are comfortable. The guesthouse is clean, quiet and comfortable. It is situated just out of town so you are close enough should you need anything. The garden birds are a delight so it is a must stay if you are coming for a birding visit to Dlinza forest.
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Date of stay: April 2022
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Trip type: Traveled on business
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Response from Jane Chennells, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded May 4, 2022
Dear Meowchuchu, Thank you for your super review! It is nice to have guests who really appreciate their surroundings and especially our large number of bird species. We hope to see you again! Kind regards, Jane.
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Our group of 8 had a lovely time at the Chase. We were there for 3 days, and loved exploring the grounds, as well as the area around Eshowe. The accommodations were spacious and comfortable, and the breakfasts were superb! Thanks for the gracious hospitality, Jane!
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Date of stay: February 2020
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Response from Jane C, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded Feb 24, 2020
Hello peterm413, Thank you for the lovely revue from your group, who were exceptional guests to have to stay! You were all so interesting and interested in our culture, history and the banana/ sugar/ Protea farm tour. Next time come when the Proteas are in bloom! KIndest regards to you all, from Janey.
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We were so fortunate to have been able to book the garden cottage at Chase Guesthouse. What a wonderful experience! The garden cottage is cleverly laid out and perfect for two people. The garden is magnificent even for non-gardeners like myself. Those things would make it worth a visit on its own, but the hosts' considerate hospitality and small touches puts it firmly on the list of "places to visit again". Everything from really good biscuits in our room, to a thermos of hot water for tea during load shedding, to unexpectedly washing our car, which was quite dirty from dirt road trips the previous days, to directions for a beautifully scenic drive to our next destination. Thank you so much, Jane and Jonno!
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Date of stay: December 2019Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Response from Jane C, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded Dec 8, 2019
Dear Herman C, Thank you so much for your great review! It was a pleasure meeting you and your wife, Alv. I am so glad you enjoyed our little piece of Paradise, and that you had a good sighting of our Mama Owl. We hope to see you one day again after you have spread your wings and visited other shores! Travel safely!
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We stayed in the 3 bedroom cottage for 4 nights. It was a real home from home, with a big balcony facing onto the garden. Janey was an exceptionally caring and considerate hostess, who made sure that we were comfortable in her spotless and well-equipped cottage. The outings that she recommended (a walk with a birding guide through the forest which surrounds the town; a visit to the local museum and a day trip to see “Timeless Zululand” with Henry Bird) made our visit to Eshowe a memorable and very special time. We also enjoyed Janey’s tour of the beautiful proteas thriving on their farm, and the visit to the busy packing shed where flowers and enormous bunches of bananas are cut and prepared for the market.The breakfast, served in the main house, was superb and beautifully presented. And enjoyed in a room with an unhindered view of hills stretching as far as the eye can see. No wonder Eshowe was the favored place of Zulu kings!…
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Date of stay: August 2019Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Response from Jane C, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded Aug 17, 2019
Dear Linsy7, It is always fun to see what visitors find so special about our Guest House and what Eshowe has to offer. I am pleased you were able to experience a variety of different things and that we were able to show you something of life on our farm, as well as learn something from you about the interesting work you have been involved in. Thank you for taking the time to write such a super, complimentary review. We would love to see you back here again someday!
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We spend 4 nights at The Chase in June 2019 for our son to ride the IMPI Hard Enduro outside Eshowe. Jane was an amazing hostess who anticipated our every need. We took long walks around the sugarcane fields and enjoyed watching the new calves in the field. The Chase is well equipped and its location to Eshowe couldn't be better. The next time we are headed to Eshowe we will definitely try and stay with Jane at The Chase again.
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Date of stay: June 2019
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Response from Jane C, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded Aug 14, 2019
Dear BetsyNAM, Thank you for taking the time to write such a complimentary review for Chase Guest House.You were lovely guests to have to stay, and we thoroughly enjoyed meeting you and your family. I do hope you will return one day and that we have time to visit the Protea and banana farms in-between bike-riding! Kind regards, Jane Chennells.
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Jane went out of her way to accommodate us and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay. The gardens and views were beautiful and the cottage comfortable, tidy and clean. We would definately recommend the cottage and would like to return soon.
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Date of stay: December 2018Trip type: Traveled with family
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Response from Jane C, Owner at Chase Guest House
Responded Jan 6, 2019
Dear HermanDG, Thank you for taking the time to give us such a good review! We really enjoyed meeting you and your young family, and especially appreciated your interest in our bird-filled garden and Spotted Eagle Owl. We hope to see you again!. Kind regards to you all.
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