Hero Adventure Park at Heia Safari

[ByronH]

Yup. Just look at the business that the coffee shops near modderfontein, the spruit get.

[ChUkKy]

ja, honestly if they can't sort out the mess I won't be interested in going there. I won't trespass / poach a ride just to show them. More than enough other venues. What boggles the mind is that the landowner is shooting himself in the foot. The restaurant is packed with cyclists on the weekends. Does he not care for this revenue and does he think that once he has HERO off his land that the trails will stay conditioned without maintenance...Wonder if he thought about this expense. 

 

That restaurant is plain k@k, I sat outside after a ride once and eventually had to google their phone number and phone for service while I was sitting just past the pool. 

 

Once I got a waiter I think he fetched the beers from bloem it took so long.

When the beers arrived I told him I want the bill in 2 minutes otherwise he must come find me. Needless to say the bill arrived in that time and I went to drink elsewhere.

 

Heia is a great place to ride but that restaurant (if you can call it that) is rubbish, service the same.

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Quickest way to get a coke after a ride is to walk up to the outside bar and ask for one. Even on a slow day it seems to take the waiters forever to go to the restaurant and back.

 

Shame cos its a lovely place to sit and watch monkeys trying to steal bottles off you bike :-)

[Danger Dassie]

Ok i think I am mistaken... I think InTouch Sport are the holding company for Hero Adventure... so who are these 'land owners' whom need to be taken to task @Dflip?

 

 

Seems to be two seperate concerns. 

 

http://www.intouchsports.net

http://www.hero-adventure.co.za

[L.T.G]

Ok i think I am mistaken... I think InTouch Sport are the holding company for Hero Adventure... so who are these 'land owners' whom need to be taken to task @Dflip?

 

Seems to be two seperate concerns. 

 

http://www.intouchsports.net

http://www.hero-adventure.co.za

In Touch Sports is the holding company that owns Hero Adventure, so they're basically the same people.

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If I go there this weekend to ride, who do I pay?

[L.T.G]

If I go there this weekend to ride, who do I pay?

The right thing to do is to pay the HAP representative once inside...

BUT you more than likely won't be allowed in by security and will probably be forced to pay at the gate this is how the new owners are attempting to suffocate Hero 

[xcd]

Guys ! We all know in life there is 2 sides to a story.

What I have heard and I am not connected in any way.

Hero only give the new owner R10 of the R40 they charge.

If you had paid over 20 million rand for a property and we're going to spend another couple of million upgrading all facilities and fencing wouldn't you expect a better return. The new owner has been a cyclist for many years and has only good plans for the park that will benefit all cyclists and nature lovers as he is a very active conservationist. Just do some Maths on an investment of this size and put yourself in the owners shoes.

[Robrider]

Guys ! We all know in life there is 2 sides to a story.

What I have heard and I am not connected in any way.

Hero only give the new owner R10 of the R40 they charge.

If you had paid over 20 million rand for a property and we're going to spend another couple of million upgrading all facilities and fencing wouldn't you expect a better return. The new owner has been a cyclist for many years and has only good plans for the park that will benefit all cyclists and nature lovers as he is a very active conservationist. Just do some Maths on an investment of this size and put yourself in the owners shoes.

 

Ya, but if you are going to buy a property with a lease in place HE should have done the maths... High court ruling upheld the contract...

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The right thing to do is to pay the HAP representative once inside...

BUT you more than likely won't be allowed in by security and will probably be forced to pay at the gate this is how the new owners are attempting to suffocate Hero

 

Ok. In that basis I will go somewhere else. The last thing I need in my life at the moment is an early morning fight at the gate.

 

Can't Hero put someone at the gate? Last time I was there, a few weeks ago, I paid at the gate and was told I was paying Hero. I didn't pay anywhere else.

[Guest notmyname]

Ya, but if you are going to buy a property with a lease in place HE should have done the maths... High court ruling upheld the contract...

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[rouxtjie]

Guys ! We all know in life there is 2 sides to a story.

What I have heard and I am not connected in any way.

Hero only give the new owner R10 of the R40 they charge.

If you had paid over 20 million rand for a property and we're going to spend another couple of million upgrading all facilities and fencing wouldn't you expect a better return. The new owner has been a cyclist for many years and has only good plans for the park that will benefit all cyclists and nature lovers as he is a very active conservationist. Just do some Maths on an investment of this size and put yourself in the owners shoes.

What about the income at the restaurant...or other activities that result because of the mtb'ers, does hero get a cut from it?. Those trails / bridges  don't maintain themselves and I think its not cricket to force hero out now that they have sat through the time to build up heia as a place to go ride your mtb nevermind the costs involved to build up the trails to where they are. Now that the place is becoming popular the new owner wants the whole pie....aikona

 

If this is going to happen(new owner forces hero out and don't honor the arrangement with various tactics) I will NOT go there out of principle. 

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The previous owner was being liquidated she was so desperate for money she signed any agreement to get money in. He bought the property on an auction. You are not told everything when you buy something that way.

Someone has to own the property. Banks have so much property on their hands to day because of the current position. I am sure that however bought it would have expected a return. Hero knew about the situation. Why didn't they buy it then. ?

[rouxtjie]

The previous owner was being liquidated she was so desperate for money she signed any agreement to get money in. He bought the property on an auction. You are not told everything when you buy something that way.

Someone has to own the property. Banks have so much property on their hands to day because of the current position. I am sure that however bought it would have expected a return. Hero knew about the situation. Why didn't they buy it then. ?

So hero must pay for his lack of due diligence....aikona

[Guest notmyname]

The previous owner was being liquidated she was so desperate for money she signed any agreement to get money in. He bought the property on an auction. You are not told everything when you buy something that way.

Someone has to own the property. Banks have so much property on their hands to day because of the current position. I am sure that however bought it would have expected a return. Hero knew about the situation. Why didn't they buy it then. ?

Dude you pushing drol uphill. Contractually hero has all their ducks in a row. You obviously know the new owner, why not inform him/her/them to come and show there presence here and explain their side of the debacle.

 

I can tell you this man. Before those hero trails started operating, Heia was on a road to nowhere. After the old man was murdered the venue went to the Dogs.

[xcd]

Dude you pushing drol uphill. Contractually hero has all their ducks in a row. You obviously know the new owner, why not inform him/her/them to come and show there presence here and explain their side of the debacle.

I can tell you this man. Before those hero trails started operating, Heia was on a road to nowhere. After the old man was murdered the venue went to the Dogs.

Exactly!!! I couldn't agree with you more. That proves my point that his daughter was in major financial difficulty after her boyfriend was also murdered and she had to run the place on her own. I think when Hero came along she jumped at any form of income to survive even though she was in the process of loosing the property.