The Carlton Hotel is 31 storeys high and has over 600 rooms, and Bennett and Mueller had to use the fire escapes to get up and down. "It was kind of scary, but we didn’t have time to be afraid ...

Johannesburg’s Carlton Hotel, once the pinnacle of luxury in South Africa, has been vacant for more than 20 years and is just a shadow of what it used to be in its glory days. The Carlton Centre ...

JOHANNESBURG -- Twenty years ago, the Carlton Centre was the fanciest address in Johannesburg. Its office tower, the tallest in Africa, was home to top corporate headquarters. Wealthy tourists ...

Johannesburg - Door knobs are being polished, elevators and toilets fixed up, and 1970's style furniture and decor brought back to parts of Johannesburg's Carlton Hotel - empty and unused since 1997.

Think of hotel opulence in SA and the Carlton Hotel immediately springs to mind. ... New book gives a glimpse of an iconic Johannesburg hotel that's stood untouched for 20 years. Lifestyle.

While the Central Business District is home to famed tourist attractions such as Carlton Centre and Gandhi Square, urban decay in the mid-1990s led a large number of businesses to move their ...

Gauteng municipal building in Johannesburg city centre. (Mpho Mokgadi) TV presenter Dali Tambo has fond memories of another iconic high-rise, the Carlton Hotel, where he lived for a year after ...

Yes, you may know all of this already, but we’re sure that we have five facts about the Carlton Centre that you do not know. During the time that the centre was a hotel, which was later ...