CHIC (AND RESPONSIBLE!) CITY BREAKS FOR TRENDY COUPLES

It’s Saturday night and you’re ready to rock. You and your partner are dressed to kill and you’re heading out for cocktails at the trendiest bar in town.

Sound like a great plan? It is. So why not extend the night of fun to a whole weekend of playtime at the Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! in Cape Town and Melrose Arch, Johannesburg? The hotels, with their trendy bars, killer cocktail menus, superb cuisine and gorgeous rooms, are the perfect place to spoil your other half with a weekend away.

At the Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! Cape Town enjoy the city’s new favourite drink; Stoli Premium Vodka milkshakes in a range of flavours from the cranberry-infused Cosmostolitan to the Fire & Ice! chilli-laced Lindt Chocolate shake.

Then relocate to the restaurant for a decadent and romantic meal for two before strolling two blocks to Cape Town’s party-central, Long Street, with its scores of bars, restaurants and nightclubs.

Best of all, when you’ve razzled up a storm it’s just a hop, skip and jump back to your king-size bed, where blissful oblivion followed by a sumptuous hotel breakfast await you.

At the glamorous Hollywood-inspired Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! Melrose Arch spoil your loved one with cocktails at the hip and happening bar, or in one of the hotel’s private lounging pods. Afterwards stroll through to the new trendy in-house restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner daily to tantalise your tastebuds with sumptuous cuisine in an intimate and relaxing dining environment. If you feel like something more casual, or try the 'Deli on High Street', a sidewalk deli on the corner of High and Whitely Street, which adds to the coffee culture that is very evident in this trendy part of Jozi. Then while your delicious dinner is digesting, enjoy a nightcap under the stars next the tranquil water of the hotel pool before retiring to your designer bedroom, where a decadent English breakfast can be served the following morning.

Getting behind the wheel after a night of partying is uncool. Why not experience a hot night on the town with Protea Hotel Fire & Ice! instead.