Ocean Eleven Guesthouse
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On the "unmade up" road to nowhere
Saturday... Where has the week gone. We are leaving CT today and heading for the Garden Route via The Cape of Good Hope (from now on > known as CGH). CT has been wonderful, will really miss it. Hire car arrived at hotel 9am just as we were sitting down to breakfast. So leave breakfast sit down with car hire man and ooops!! > He's brought us …
The Cape of Good Hope Tour
Breakfast at the Mandela Rhodes Hotel/Apartment is amazing! The restaurant is on the roof by the pool and the spread is the best we have yet to see. We have our fill before collecting Christine and heading for the Cape. Our paragliding is cancelled due to the weather conditions but we have a full day of sight seeing nonetheless. We stop at a craft …
Read heaps about the whales here
NOT MOVING LONG DISTANCES IN THE 1st 3 DAYS MEANT A LONGER ONE TODAY TO GET TO HERMANUS as WANT TO SPEND 2 DAYS HERE.
Spent ages looking for the right accommodation in the right location - wanted to see the ocean from our bedroom and of course the whales. At last (Kevin gets a trifle agitated driving round and round and round and …
Indian Ocean meets Atlantic Ocean
... and I felt great being off the pavement and plowing through these muddy roads in the pouring rain. We were invincible.
Karyn keeps mumbling something about "Only 14 More Sleeps"
Next stop that day was at Gansbaai, for Shark Diving. As luck would have it, none of the dive boats were going out because the seas were too rough. (same wind as at the lighthouse)
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Whale watching and goodbyes
... We said out goodbyes to them and took some pics with them. They were clearly touched, as were we. We then picked up our car from Avis at the airport and I finally got to test driving on the leg hand side with a manual car. Was a little rough for the first few miles as I got used to stick again and then driving on the left hand side. We picked up kalen, shaggy and Lena and went off on ...
TravelPod Member ReviewsOcean Eleven Guesthouse Hermanus
Liken to staying at a spa - gorgeous. Even has decanters of port and sherry in our room (and in the library)
I think white on white is very luxurious.
The breakfast room was also super with a great selection of delacacies (even took my husbands to his room - he spent a whole day in bed sick)
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I would come back here with a group of friends and hire the whole place... lovely
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