Sweet Treat

Gate area sugar fix at King Shaka

Sweet Treat sits airside at King Shaka International Airport (DUR), so you only see it after security. It’s a small grab-and-go spot focused on chocolates, packaged sweets, and snack tins rather than fresh pastries. Expect standard South African brands alongside global names, with prices a bit higher than city supermarkets, as usual for airport retail.

You’ll find mostly packaged items: chocolate bars, boiled sweets, jelly candies, and gift boxes that travel well in a carry-on. It’s the sort of place you hit after realizing you forgot something for kids or colleagues and don’t have time to browse the duty-free aisles. Figure on paying airport markups, but still under what you’d drop on a souvenir shop hamper.

Sweet Treat generally keeps standard terminal hours, opening before the first morning departures and closing after the last evening wave of flights at DUR. That makes it a reliable backup if the main duty-free gets crowded or if your boarding pass scan takes longer than planned and you just want to grab a bag of sweets on the walk to the gate.

There’s no seating and no hot food, so don’t plan a meal stop here. Think “add-on” to whatever you buy from a nearby café: a chocolate slab with your takeaway coffee or a packet of gummies to tide you over on the 1–2 hour domestic sectors from Durban to Johannesburg or Cape Town.

Tip: If you’re tight on time, walk straight from security toward your gate and hit Sweet Treat on that path rather than doubling back to the bigger duty-free store.