Located in Simon’s Town, the boutique hotel not only boasts breathtaking scenery but is on the serene shores of Boulders Beach, famed for its colony of endangered African penguins.
The Cape Town gem sits immediately behind Bangkok’s famed Mandarin Oriental and Ballyfin, an Irish luxury country estate.
Now the hotel remains dusty and abandoned, merely housing memories of its heyday, including wild parties in the 80s, along with a couple of ghosts of the people who died there.
Last week Thursday, police arrested two suspects at two Cape Town hotels while investigating a hostage situation.
We may see far fewer international visitors this holiday season, for obvious reasons, but that doesn’t mean South Africans won’t flock to the Mother City.
There’s plenty of competition to land on a ‘best hotels in Cape Town’ list, but we’ve picked these seven options in and around the Mother City.