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Where to Stay in Cape Town: The Best Hotels for Every Budget
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items Where you stay in Cape Town shapes your whole trip: the Waterfront and City Bowl are walkable and central, the Atlantic Seaboard (Sea Point, Camps Bay) puts you on the beach for sunsets, and the southern suburbs are quieter and closer to the wineland...
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Luxury Splurges
Boutique & Mid-Range
Budget & Backpacker
Luxury Splurges
Cape Town's most spectacular hotel, built into the top of the old grain silo above Zeitz MOCAA, with those famous bulging pillowed windows framing Table Mountain and the harbour. The rooftop pool and bar are the stuff of bucket lists, and every room ...
The Silo Hotel, V&A Waterfront
An Edwardian mansion on the slopes of Lion's Head in Bantry Bay, with terraced gardens, a pool facing the Atlantic and one of the finest private art collections in South Africa. It feels like staying in a wealthy friend's cliffside home, with the ser...
Ellerman House, Bantry Bay
A resort-style hotel on its own little islands in the V&A Waterfront canals, with some of the biggest rooms in the city, a gorgeous spa set on an island, and Table Mountain views from the pool. It's especially good for families, with a kids' club...
One&Only Cape Town, V&A Waterfront
The ‘Pink Lady’ of Cape Town: a grand, rose-pink colonial hotel set in manicured gardens beneath Table Mountain since 1899. It's all old-world glamour, with palm-lined drives and a legendary afternoon tea you can book even if you're not staying. Loca...
Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, Gardens
Wedged between the Twelve Apostles mountains and the Atlantic just past Camps Bay, this is the hotel for ocean sunsets from your room. It borders Table Mountain National Park, so you get fynbos walks and total quiet, yet Camps Bay beach is minutes aw...
Twelve Apostles Hotel & Spa, Camps Bay
Boutique & Mid-Range
A stylish design hotel in two heritage buildings on St George's Mall in the heart of the city, with a rooftop pool and bar looking up at Table Mountain. The interiors are full of local art and craft, and the restaurant is excellent. It's perfect if y...
Gorgeous George, City Centre
A charming boutique hotel in a restored 18th-century building on Heritage Square, where a grapevine planted in the 1770s still grows in the courtyard. Each room is individually themed, service is warm and personal, and it's consistently one of the be...
Cape Heritage Hotel, Heritage Square
Right on the Camps Bay beachfront strip, with a rooftop pool overlooking the sand, the palm trees and the Twelve Apostles. Rooms are big and bright with ocean views, and you're steps from the beach and the restaurants and cocktail bars of Victoria Ro...
The Marly Boutique Hotel & Spa, Camps Bay
A sleek, modern boutique hotel of stone, wood and glass just across the road from Camps Bay beach, with an infinity pool that looks straight out to sea. It's smaller and calmer than the big beach hotels, with lovely service and a great breakfast. Cho...
POD Camps Bay
A fun, colourful, art-filled hotel in the Silo District right next to Zeitz MOCAA, at a fraction of the price of the famous Silo Hotel next door. The rooftop pool and bar have some of the best views of Table Mountain and the harbour at sunset. Rooms ...
Radisson RED Hotel, V&A Waterfront
A big, modern and very affordable hotel in the city centre, popular for its rooftop pool deck with views of Table Mountain, Signal Hill and the harbour. Rooms are simple, clean and well priced, which makes it a smart base if you plan to be out explor...
Hotel Sky Cape Town, City Centre
Budget & Backpacker
A stylish, social budget stay in Green Point, between the Waterfront and Sea Point. It mixes private rooms and apartment-style units with shared kitchens and hangout spaces, so it suits solo travellers and digital nomads who want company without dorm...
Curiocity Green Point
A hip hostel-meets-hotel on Kloof Street, one of Cape Town's best streets for cafes, restaurants and nightlife. You can choose a private room or a bed in a dorm, and the courtyard bar and restaurant are buzzing with travellers. It's walkable to the C...
Once In Cape Town Hotel
One of Cape Town's original backpacker hostels, set around a leafy courtyard right on Long Street, the city's famous strip of bars, clubs and cheap eats. Expect dorms and simple private rooms, a sociable crowd and staff full of tips. It's lively rath...
Long Street Backpackers, City Centre
A clean, modern ‘boutique hostel’ on Loop Street, a block from Long Street and a short walk to Greenmarket Square and Bo-Kaap. It offers pod-style dorm beds with privacy curtains and compact private rooms, plus a rooftop with city views. A good middl...
91 Loop Boutique Hostel, City Centre