SomethingEventfull

Something Eventfull, specialist holiday accommodation where a sense of home is encapsulated, are now on Jumpstarter Crowdfunding. Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, October, 12th, 2016 – New Start-up Company Something Eventfull announced today that it is raising funds via a rewards / equity crowdfunding campaign on Jumpstarter Crowdfunding to finish the interior design and refurbishment of their newly acquired Holiday letting apartment. The company set out to raise R35,000 on Jumpstarter Crowdfunding to finish refurbishment and produce the stylish 1920’s glamour themed apartment which will add to their ethos of providing beautiful, homely, yet affordable holiday accommodation. The idea to establish an accommodation business was born in 2004 when Something Eventfull owner, Germaine started doing a lot of travelling around South Africa mainly using backpackers as this was the cheapest type of accommodation for a student. She thoroughly enjoyed seeing new places and meeting people from different cultures and distant places. Some of the backpackers that she stayed at were great while others not so much. This ignited Germaine’s passion to start her own accommodation business, borrowing ideas of backpacking, making traveling cheaper especially for young people and students but to make it more comfortable and aesthetically pleasing. So in 2013, she took the plunge, left her full time employment and headed to Cape Town. There she rented an eight bedroom house to operate as a guest house and in a matter of months the business took off. The accommodation was mainly advertised on Airbnb which shares the vision of “caring host” With the success of the guest house Germaine decided it was time to purchase her own place. She purchased a large bachelor flat in a charming holiday letting block on Durban’s beach front. The building was previously a Hotel which had retained some of those features which worked well with Germaine’s type of accommodation idea. The accommodation offers the …