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Cape Town Lodge
Buitengracht St., City Bowl, Cape Town
- Owner-managed, ensuring good service and attention to detail
- Practical and convenient
- An escalator-ride away from some of the best steaks in Cape Town
It may look like Legoland’s version of a Holiday Inn but don’t be deceived into thinking that Cape Town Lodge is yet another soulless chain hotel with plastic smiles and linoleum bath-shower-toilet-basin combos.
Cape Town Lodge is managed by its owner and, while many of the services and facilities echo the aforementioned chain, you get genuine smiles and heartfelt good service when you stay at this hotel.
The decor is bold to say the least from its charcoal exterior to the shiny wood and deep blues and reds inside. The 114 en suite rooms offer a variety of sizes and views – always good - and all are equipped with the usual tea/coffee and movies-on-demand drill.
Downstairs, the Famous Butcher’s Grill is richly decorated in a theme that would make Candy the Colonial Carnivore beam with pride. Steaks are unashamedly idolised and a meal here is a veritable lesson in farming, agriculture and social science. Excellent local wines have been selected to complement the meaty menu.
The hotel has some stay-enhancing facilities like a pool deck, cigar lounge, and a ‘ladies’ cocktail bar that opens at 8:30am. But if anything’s going to grab you, it’s the sheer convenience of the hotel’s location. In the city bowl, Cape Town Lodge is halfway to everywhere and almost on top of the junction where the main roads in and out of Cape Town meet.
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Type: Hotel
Rates from: R700pp sharing
Status: A Touch of Fairy Dust
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Buitengracht takes you to the winelands in the north and Camps Bay and Clifton the other way; Strand Street, a few blocks down, is your gateway to the southern peninsula with De Waterkant and Sea Point in the opposite direction. |
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The City Bowl is a hypnotic mish-mash of high culture and African buzz; attractions and activities abound and from here it’s easy to get everywhere else. |
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