The Vineyard Hotel

Step inside this seven-acre riverside garden estate on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain and find yourself surrounded by vineyards and grand country-style architecture. The Vineyard Hotel rests just over the hill from Cape Town’s city centre and offers urban serenity with a generous helping of greens.

Guests receive the full Cape Town experience of history, landscape, design and hospitality at this classy hotel. Amid the landscaped gardens is the inviting heated swimming pool with a backdrop of Newlands Forest and Table Mountain, which makes sunning yourself by the pool one of the most delightful ways to pass the time. Cape Town’s main attractions are only a short drive away, and the Cape Winelands are under an hour from the hotel.

In the leafy suburb of Newlands, a country cottage was built in the vineyards by Lady Anne Barnard in 1799, which today houses a 207-room luxury hotel. Standard Doubles, Deluxe Rooms, Junior Suites, Suites and Cottages feature varied views of courtyard water gardens, riverside, treed parkland and mountainscape. The hotel is noted for its fine restaurants of award-winning connoisseur cuisine and top vintages, and its well-equipped fitness centre and spa.