Secret Sands
Glenmore Beach
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Seaside Family Holiday
Direct Beach Access
About Us
Secret Sands Glenmore Beach is a safe and peaceful escape where families reconnect through adventure, wonder, and the timeless beauty of nature.
Guided by our loyal team, we create warm, high-value experiences that inspire lasting memories in a truly magical setting.
Our beach resort is a wonderful place to visit throughout the year... In the hot summer months we have our swimming pool with a children's pool and the netted beach to cool down. During the winter months, particularly from May to October, the Bottle Nose and Common Dolphins can be seen following the annual migration northwards of the sardines. The Hump Back and Southern Right Whales come past for a much longer period as they head north early in the cooler months to the warm waters. Around November they travel south again with their calves returning back to the cold southern waters.
Our well maintained gardens are home to Dassies and Vervet Monkies, who are protected in this area.
We can also boast abundant bird-life with resident Fish Eagles often seen perched on their vantage point high in the branches of the dead trees along the Tongazi River. They are seen most often early in the morning or on cloudy days.
The flat sands and rocky outcrops of Glenmore beach proves to be great for fishing and diving.
We also have a games room with entertainment for young and old with tv games, pool table and table tennis.
In the garden near to the swimming pool is a jungle gym for the smaller children.
We pay great attention to security and have overnight watchmen and CCTV surveillance around the resort to ensure our guests are secure.
Our History
The original hotel was built by John Henry Velkoop around 1931/32. Velkoop was already well known to the small community as a pioneer and entrepreneur in the area. He built Munster stall in 1918 and sold it to Monty Sawyer in 1928 and we believe that the proceeds of that sale enabled him to build the hotel. Sawyer subsequently married Velkoop’s daughter, Dulcie. Please note that the Von Baumbachs-Stoppel family were the first settlers in Munster in 1903.
The Hotel was originally called the Graham Hotel after Velkoop's last son Percy Graham Velkoop who was born in 1933, very close to the time of the Nightingale being wrecked on the rocks at Munster beach in January 1933. It is reported that the sailors from the ship dined and slept at the Hotel on the night of the shipwreck.
The hotel changed hands several times and its name soon changed to The Green Dolphin. It was renamed again in the late 40's as The Glenmore Beach Hotel and kept that name until 2025 when it was bought by the Kinsey-Broide family and again renamed by them as Secret Sands Glenmore Beach.
The resort has been a landmark and community centre for the last 95 years. Many decisions, wild stories and the like about fishing and other things have taken place in its bounds. Rod Kinsey’s grandfather William Darwin Deeks remembered fondly the Hotel when it was known as the Green Dolphin in the 30’s. The Kinsey-Deeks family had also purchased their property from Mr Velkoop in 1935, a small 40-acre farm across the Tongazi which they still own today some 90 years later and where Rod and Jeanne-Louise Kinsey run their eco-estate and guest lodge called Secret Sithela.