Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
Choose between sea- or garden-facing rooms and spacious self-catering cottages – all with thatched, open-rafter roofs – at this imaginatively designed,…
Must-see hotels in Cape Town
Cape Town
This Gone with the Wind–style, heritage-listed villa presents a very classy boutique operation, with some rooms opening onto the secluded courtyard…
Cape Town
Rooms are smart (and, naturally, decorated in shades of grey), but most are very small, especially at the lower end of the price range when the bed…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
Excellently located at the Noordhoek Farm Village complex, this hotel's rooms are spacious and comfortable and surround a pretty inner courtyard planted…
Cape Town
This pleasant B&B, in a renovated Cape Georgian house, comes with a tiny plunge pool for hot summers and a lounge fireplace for chilly winters.
Cape Town
If you want to be in the thick of Cape Town's dining, drinking and shopping scenes, 40 on Burg has a marvellous location just off Greenmarket Sq. Based in…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
There are magnificent vistas of the penguin colony and Atlantic Ocean beyond from certain rooms of this luxurious guesthouse. Rooms are individually…
Green Point & Waterfront
You'll pay slightly extra for rooms with sea views at this hotel located on the Mouille Point Promenade, but the ones looking towards Signal Hill are just…
Cape Town
Respected local artist David Brits has put his stamp on the decor here, with some rooms sporting murals inspired by the hotel's city centre surrounds. The…
Sea Point to Hout Bay
The word thulani is Zulu for ‘peace and tranquillity’ – the perfect description of this German-run guesthouse, an African-thatched mansion tucked away in…
Cape Town
This appealing guesthouse and cafe has a central position in De Waterkant. The cafe's tables spill out onto a terrace with good views of the area. Rooms…
Sea Point to Hout Bay
It's not technically on the promenade, but this trendily monochrome designer hotel is close enough that the (pricier) rooms with balconies have sea views…
Cape Town
The old wash houses, in a leafy location at the edge of the national park, have been converted into very stylish and spacious self-catering units. They…
Cape Town
Found on the fourth floor of the WEX1 building, Stock Exchange is a youthful, trendy hotel decked out in contemporary furnishings. All rooms come with…
Cape Town
The Italian monastic-order Scalabrini Fathers have provided welfare services to Cape Town’s poor and to refugees since 1994. Housed in a former textile…
Green Point & Waterfront
Close to the V&A Waterfront but still fairly convenient for the city centre, this large hotel has smart rooms with views of the harbour or mountain. The…
Green Point & Waterfront
Radisson's youthful, fun hotel brand lands at the Waterfront's Silo district and it looks a little like a funky airport lounge. Superhero and Minnie Mouse…
Cape Town
This long-running backpackers, split between four houses, remains a popular alternative to the city-centre hostels. The en-suite rooms in the houses…
Cape Town
Occupying a grand Arts and Crafts–style home, built in 1905 for a shipping magnate, the interiors of this luxury guesthouse marry fine linen and antique…
Cape Town
With a wrap-around balcony overlooking the heart of Obs, this is one for backpackers who want to soak up all the comings and goings of Lower Main Rd. It's…
Cape Town
Adheena and Yoann are the very welcoming South African–French couple running this charming B&B, which has been so successful it has expanded into nearby…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
Some of Stoked's four- to 12-bed dorms are nicer than others, so check out the options before deciding. Otherwise, you can't fault the location – next to…
Cape Town
This attractive and well-appointed modern guesthouse offers light, contemporary rooms and self-catering cottages. Its balconies, lawn and pool are…
Cape Town
Little has changed at this backpackers since it opened in 1993 (making it the longest-running of the many that dot Long St). In a block of 14 small flats,…
Green Point & Waterfront
A chic property offering whitewashed beach-house rooms downstairs or contemporary rooms upstairs. The mosaic-tiled bathrooms have showers big enough to…
Sea Point to Hout Bay
Your eyes will bulge at the flamboyant Afro-chic makeover to which the 1871 Hout Bay Manor has been treated. Contemporary art mixes with brightly coloured…
Cape Town
High up the mountain, this exclusive, chic property offers eight spacious and tastefully decorated rooms, all with balconies and beautifully tiled…
Cape Town
Friendly Maria Maile runs this B&B in her small brick bungalow in Graceland, an upmarket part of Khayelitsha. She can put up four people in her two homely…
Cape Town
Fresh flowers in plush rooms decorated in soft tones – that's what you get at this elegant 24-room luxury hotel on the historic Steenberg wine estate,…
Cape Town
You’re well on the way up Lion’s Head at this delightful family home, which offers a range of attractive rooms, mostly frequented by long-stay guests. It…
Sea Point to Hout Bay
Take your pick between chic, contemporary-designed rooms with balconies and to-die-for views across Hout Bay, and the smaller and more traditionally…
Cape Town
This imaginative, cosy backpackers in a Victorian cottage has sought inspiration from different Cape Town suburbs as themes for its rooms. There’s a…
Cape Town
Rooms are modern, compact (no wardrobes but hangers and a rail for your clothes) and generally good value at this new business hotel that shares…
Cape Town
Nomase's salmon-pink guesthouse offers four en-suite rooms in a useful location, a few minutes' walk east of the Langa Pass Museum and Guga S’Thebe Arts &…
Cape Town
Inside a grey-painted corner house is this cute B&B. The Canadian owner likes to play the grand piano and has two adorable dogs. There are just three cosy…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
This rambling, wooden-floored 1920s guesthouse is decorated with choice pieces of contemporary local arts and crafts. There’s a variety of rooms, each…
Sea Point to Hout Bay
Exclusive and exquisite, the Marly's chic rooms decorated with black-and-white photography perch above the Camps Bay throng, close enough to hear the…
Cape Town
For such a central location this new but functional basic hotel offers a pretty good deal. The compact rooms feature exposed-brick walls and for R200 more…
Simon's Town & Southern Peninsula
Set in a heritage-listed building with splendid sea views, this backpackers is ideal for those who don’t want to be more than 30 seconds from the sand. As…
Cape Town
This heritage building, with high-ceiling rooms, parquet floors and a faint art-deco style, has been transformed into a relaxed guesthouse that is smart…
