Find the Best Accommodation in Cape Town

You're traveling to Cape Town, renowned for its natural beauty, sophistication and efficiency, and your choice of accommodation in Cape Town will determine your experience of this amazing city at the Southern tip of Africa.

Things to look for in good quality accommodation in Cape Town are clean and modern furnishings, privacy and a good location.

Green Point has not always been popular with tourists as an area with regards to accommodation in Cape Town. Bordering on the CBD and the Waterfront and incorporating a spacious common this district is being visibly upgraded on a weekly basis. The 2010 Soccer World Cup will be hosted at the Cape Town stadium which is currently in its completion stages and has helped invigorate this increasingly fashionable area. There weren't many reasons to frequent Green Point up until quite recently.

The traffic department (also known as Gallows Hill) which is still based in Green Point was a place you visited only when you had to, resulting in unpleasant associations. If you are feeling a little gay then The Bronx bar is a reliable meeting place for gentlefolk. Ladies of the night would stand on display on the street corners with staid names such as St George's and Vesperdene, thank goodness and hard work that the police have cleaned up. All this as you can imagine, did not make Green Point the ideal choice for accommodation in Cape Town for both tourists and businessmen.

Green Point had lots of character though and through the recent changes in and around it has acquired a bit of grooming and manners too. Being one of the closest suburbs to the city, on the boundary of the old harbour and Victoria and Alfred Waterfront with a sizeable landmass covered with middle-class houses and smallish blocks of flats has led this area to be targeted for mostly successful densification, renovation and commercialization. This has opened up a large choice of accommodation in Cape Town for the holiday and business traveler.

The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront Development is the very affluent neighbor of Green Point. The Waterfront Marina has reached saturation point with regards to hotel and residential development - some of the most exclusive and expensive accommodation in Cape Town is found here. This has been cause for similar class of development to occur in Green Point which is on the Waterfront’s southern boundary.

And so this area became the next logical area to re-develop - up market all-suite hotels and modern apartment blocks have sprung up everywhere. Because of its location and proximity to the city centre and the V&A Waterfront, apartments in this area have become sought after accommodation in Cape Town.

These are excellent choices for accommodation in Cape Town as they offer better value than the Waterfront Marina by being on the outer edge of the Waterfront perimeter yet having fast direct access to all the Waterfront attractions.

And of course the security-conscious and high-tech Waterfront lacks, the aura of street-cred evident in Green Point.

Good food outlets, trendy restaurants, delicatessens, coffee shops, a few first floor balcony lounge bars and the massive liquor and wine warehouse, Ultra Liquors, pepper the pavements and add to the unpretentious groove of Green Point.


I love Cape Town and hope I can help you to do so too by sharing some background and information about this beautiful city. Your enjoyment of Cape Town depends on where you stay so hopefully I help you find the right vacation rental. 

Find the Best Accommodation in Cape Town
By Patrick J French
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