6 hotels · South Africa
The great hotels of Cape Town
6 luxury hotels in Cape Town are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, opened in 1899; the most recent, The Silo Hotel, in 2017. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel
Painted pink in 1918 to mark the end of the First World War, the Union-Castle Line's 1899 hotel still sits in nine acres of garden below Table Mountain.
198 rooms
The Silo Hotel
Twenty-eight rooms in the elevator tower of a 1924 grain silo, above Zeitz MOCAA, with windows that bulge outward like pillows.
28 rooms
One&Only Cape Town
Sol Kerzner's homecoming hotel, opened in April 2009 at the V&A Waterfront with Africa's first Nobu and rooms on a private island in the marina.
131 rooms
Ellerman House
A 1906 Edwardian mansion above Bantry Bay holding one of the largest private collections of South African art, open only to its guests.
13 rooms
Cape Grace
Built on its own quay between a yacht marina and a working harbour, with Table Mountain filling the view across the masts.
The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa
Spa treatment rooms set in rock grottoes, with the Atlantic in front and the Twelve Apostles range rising straight behind the hotel.
70 rooms