Cape Town Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Well - it may not be a Hilton, but it does have a nice location on the water. A quick shuttle ride or 10 minute walk into the waterfront area. Also has a nice view down the other part of the coast. (Foggy lighthouse pictures coming later) It's also across from the new stadium they are building for the 2010 World Cup.

This was our last full day in Cape town, so we had an early breakfast in the hotel and then reached Clifton for a short stroll at this beautiful beach.......an hour or so later v were at V&A to do some final shopping as we were leaving for the garden route the next day......after luch we got on N1 to reach century city for canal walk mall-th...

South Africa Everything is backwards here. It's winter and cold. They drive on the wrong side of the road and my rental car has the steering wheel and stickshift on the wrong side. And yes, toilets do flush backwards down here. They speak English here but the words are all different from what we are used to. When I got to the airport, I found my...

Today was our first real day to get into the city and do something. The program had a taxi pick us up this morning at 10:30 to take us to the waterfront so we could catch a ferry for Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela and others were held as political prisoners during the Apartheid). While leaving the harbour, we saw seals playing in the water....

The first day in Cape Town was supposed to be fairly relaxed but it turned out to be a day where we visited three of the major attractions, spending over 9 hours out and about. The day was a public holiday, so although we left Villa Lutzi around 9am the traffic was quiet and there was plenty of parking at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. We w...

Pics from Christian Pedersen's visit to CPT. Including: - sundowners @ La Med - Trip to Tulbagh and Wellington (vineyards) - Braai at Oudekraal

A visit to a township; quite unexpectedly I was the only person on the tour!

With Zimbabwe being such an undesirable place to be these days it was not surprising to see hundreds of people lined up at immigration at 3AM to get out of the country. We waited in line, outside in the cold, for four hours before receiving the all important passport stamp that cleared the way to South Africa. Nothing seems to come easy on this ...

Click here for Cape Town photos Overland Club decided to change the plan for us one more time, instead of our door to door transfer to Cape Town were now going to get up at 1am and be driven to the border where we would be put on a so called luxury bus to Cape Town! It turns out there weren't even enough seats on the bus and Jacki and I didn't g...

The recap so far: Friday: I was picked up at the airport that afternoon by Amy, who is a Princeton-in-Africa fellow spending a year working for The Mothers Programmes. She immediately took me to my apartment (safe, beautiful, modern-PLEASE visit!!), then took me grocery shopping to pick up some essentials, and to buy a cell phone. She just gradu...