Westin Cape Town

... through Camps Bay area we embark on winding roads to Hout Bay.  This is a working fishing town about 30 minutes from Cape Town.  What a wonderful place.  From there, it was up to Chapman’s Peak Road, which is a toll road (28 Rand) ...

... at the moment. I hope everyone had great a Thanksgiving! I guess our Thanksgiving meal was at the Joberg airport last night waiting for our flight to Cape Town; a club sandwich drenched in some weird ranch sauce and a few castle lights (local beer, ...

... had a rotating floor, so everyone got a good view.  And with the unfortunately volcanic eruption, most European tourists couldn't come to Cape Town, so in effect, no lines.  Gorgeous views of the city and the oceans.  They also had a race ...

... walk over (which we ended up doing A LOT) and get all of the bad news delivered to us face to face.  Interesting, that Cape Town ‘the bad’ still lingers as they keep the office door locked and the Qatar ladies must buzz you in every time ...

... make the semis.  I put the guest relations guy to work to see what he can put together and decide to walk the nearby streets of Cape Town.   Getting reading to go for a walk down the street, I look at my backpack. It emits a smell strong enough that I ...

After canceling my African trip to the Serengeti, I head to Cape Town instead without a hotel scheduled, a rental car or any type of map or agenda on what I will do there.  It is a nice way to travel and I have grown accustomed to having fun getting ...

... passengers, and the bus was very new, not a scratch or flame to be seen. Each passenger had about 4 rows to ourselves. Surely Cape Town doesn't count as Africa? But then I arrived at the civic center and was assured it was Africa by the super friendly ...

... The gal at the Surf Shop is Jacqui.  She and her husband own the Surf Shop.  She is from Zimbabwe.  Her husband is from Cape Town.  He is the local Land Rover competition winner of several years.  Being a Land Rover owner, I am aware of the hard-core ...

... on here, so hopefully I can write most of it in the next hour or so while I am in Ho Chi Minh Airport. So after getting to Cape Town at 10pm on the 15th, we headed to our hotel for some shut eye (South African Airways decided to oversell/bump us from our ...

Hi all, We have been so lucky with the weather. Many people come to Cape Town hoping to visit Robben Island and hiking up Table Mountain but due to the winds are unable to do so. Robben Island: http://www.robben-island.org.za/ Table Mountain: ...

... quickly.  Then I killed an hour or so shopping at the airport before catching my flight to Cape Town.  I'm staying at the Westin Grand Arabella in Cape Town, which is pretty nice if somewhat generic, like every other Westin. Tomorrow, ...

... fisticuffs 3) Buenos Aires cabbie pulls a currency switcheroo to steal 18 pesos 2) LJ temporarily breaks her father's camera 1) Cape Town mugging Well, hopefully we have all that nonsense behind us. Really, you wouldn't think we were seasoned ...

Our hotel in Cape Town was really nice, another Westin. When we arrived to the airport it was raining, which surprised us. On this trip we haven't had a lot of rain. In fact, the clouds covered the famous view of Table Mountain which presides over Cape ...

Table Mountain is synonymous to Cape Town, described nad painted by the early voyageurs from Portugal and Holland. in 1652 Jand Van Ribbeck under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company, arrived in three ship sin Table Bay. We saw it from the plane ...

So back at the Cape Town Westin we befriended the owner of the wine shop in the hotel.  He was a really cool guy who actually lived in NY for 18 years.  He opened a bottle of champagne and we all shared it.  Then he set us up with dinner ...

... with my boarding card. I ran through security to stand in a long line for boarding the flight. Another crappy seat and packed plane. Cape Town is as great as it was last week, but ridiculously hot. My transfer driver told me they have been having a heat ...

We had our Boerewors and Steaks, so breakfast was clearing up what's left in our Cottage fridge. Hand in the keys and buy some Organic Rooibos harvested from the hills above us fine gifts for our friends back home, and not Kilo problem when ...

... to linger downtown, we hopped the cab to what was a fantastic and informative museum. Enough about Jo'Berg, though. Arriving in Cape Town, particularly after taking a luxury overnight train, was like night and day. We walked from the train station to the ...