About Ice Skating at Grand West. Featuring an Olympic-size skating rink, the Ice Station at Grand West Family Entertainment Centre is home to action-packed adventure and affordable family fun - all year round. With bright lights and contemporary music adding to a festive vibe, The Ice Station offers energetic entertainment for kids, teenagers.

• Come rain or shine - ice skating is a must! The Olympic-sized ice rink at Grand West Casino is a very popular facility. The Ice Station rink is open to the public and ice skates can be hired. Whether you want to organise a party or just want to go skating with one or two friends, the ice rink is a whole lot of fun.
• The Ice Station, Grand West Casino, 1 Jakes Gerwel Drive, Goodwood (16,233.61 km). Check out the The Ice Station, GrandWest for public session times.
• Winter School Holidays means snowman building at the Cape Peninsula Ice Skating Rink at The Ice Station at Grandwest Casino Complex. On Wednesday, 5 October, Tim Whitehead, Tiger Bax, Adrian Kritzinger and Nick Fenton Wells will join in with the kids to help create their very own masterpieces made entirely from snow!

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Come rain or shine - ice skating is a must!

The Olympic-sized ice rink at Grand West Casino is a very popular facility. The Ice Station rink is open to the public and ice skates can be hired.
Whether you want to organise a party or just want to go skating with one or two friends, the ice rink is a whole lot of fun.
The Ice Station is a non-profit organisation doing their best to develop the youth of Cape Town in the various disciplines of ice skating and of course to provide a recreational service at low prices to the public.
Remember to bring a change of clothes if you will be skating, and warm clothes are advised, even if you are just there to watch.
There are various figure skating clubs operating from The Ice Station. These clubs are all affiliated to the South African Figure Skating Association (SAFSA).
Ice Station is situated within the Grand West Casino complex on Vanguard Drive in Goodwood.
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We were rather enjoying our little break from the girls, having already spent the morning traipsing around Bloubergstrand, taking photos of Table Mountain, visiting Big Bay, and indulging in much coffee and cake at Cafe Blouberg. I then put on the table to Chantelle that we should extend our outing a little longer by paying a visit to the GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World on the way home – primarily because I wanted to take some photos of its interesting facades. Amazingly (and inexplicably) she said yes.

Opened in December 2000, Sun International’s GrandWest Casino entertainment complex is built on the old Goodwood Showgrounds and is Cape Town’s only registered casino. It is a sprawling operation that features two hotels, a kids entertainment world (with arcade), a concert venue (The Grand Arena), loads of restaurants and bars (plus a fast food court), an Olympic-size ice skating rink, a bowling alley, movie cinemas, lots of conference facilities, dedicated exhibition space (SunExhibits), and of course the actual casino floor itself.

Now neither Chantelle or I am into gambling at all, and the kids are still a bit young to easily manage in the big crowds that the place tends to generate, so GrandWest isn’t actually a location that we visit very often (other than for the odd show or music concert) at all. That said, it was interesting that both Chantelle and I commented on just how eerie it is at how little the place has changed in the now 20 years of its existence!

The place is loud and colorful and full of people, and there is more entertainment on offer than what you can shake a stick at. I of course love the historic preservation effort the architects put into the design of this fun entertainment complex, with much of its external facades modelled after historic and landmark Cape Town city buildings, and the interior decor heavily trading on Cape Town’s rich maritime tradition.

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So much to see, so much to photograph, no wonder then that Chantelle almost instantly got annoyed with me and immediately regretted having ever agreed to this unscheduled photo walk in the first place! (Not even Keith Calder’s playful seals out front were enough to appease her.)

Still, I had fun:

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