Hotel accommodation is set for improvement for the 2010 world cup. For affordable rooms you might try one of these.

Above Chelea hotel and to the right Sands hotel in hillbrow

Security and and piece of mind not a problem.

Above left is the Rosa hotel in Berea. The Carlton hotel entrance below closed off to try prevent five star squatting from happening.

The Carlton Hotel was once world renowned, a rich symbol for Johannesburg. International five star rating with 600 rooms. As the pictures show above its now all barricaded up. In 1997 it closed its doors due to crime in the CBS area.Attacks were common and it just became just too dangerous for visitors as well as staff.

The Johannesburg Sun was a luxurious five star hotel. Sol Kerzners dream accommodation in the center of Johannesburg CBD. Now it stands desolate and empty, yet another victim of democratic South Africa. To the right of the Sun hotel is the President hotel.

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