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Garden Route & Winelands Hotels

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We've tracked down the best hotels in Garden Route & Winelands, from chic and cheerful B&Bs to design dens with five-star style.


Kurland

Garden Route & Winelands, South Africa

Style
Elegant Anglo-Dutch polo estate

Setting
Nature’s Valley – says it all

Kurland is a fairytale family home on a vast and beautiful private estate; this luxury boutique hotel has buckets of old-world charm, a never-be-bored menu of things to do and staff who know the true meaning of the word ‘hospitality’.

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Ichibi Lakeside Lodge

Garden Route & Winelands, South Africa

Style
Africa welcomes the Orient

Setting
Lush Langvlei lakeside

Ichibi Lakeside Lodge is a boutique bed and breakfast retreat on South Africa’s green and gorgeous Garden Route, offering all the colonial glamour of a luxury safari lodge, with added Oriental enchantment.

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The Grand Café & Rooms

Garden Route & Winelands, South Africa

Style
Sexy boho beach chic

Setting
Overlooking Plett lagoon

This most boho of beachy boltholes is the natural downtime home of the Ibiza regular or Soho House devotee – The Grand Café & Rooms in Plett is all about super-stylish shabby chic, tasty bistro food and gorgeous sea views…

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Gorah Elephant Camp

Garden Route & Winelands, South Africa

Style
Bastion of imperial glamour

Setting
Stunning South African savannah

This luxury safari lodge merges Victorian colonial style with modern creature comforts; with opulence at every turn, and nature around every corner, Gorah Elephant Camp is the most pampering campsite in South Africa.

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Tsala Treetop Lodge

Garden Route & Winelands, South Africa

Style
Modern Africa

Setting
Up in the forest canopy

Unique boutique stay Tsala Treetop Lodge gives you a bird's eye view of the indigenous forest from your luxurious stilted hut. Think Tarzan, but with private infinity pools and flatscreen TVs. Jungle living doesn't come much more glamorous…

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Hawksmoor House

Garden Route & Winelands, South Africa

Style
Cape Dutch country house

Setting
Matjieskuil Farm winelands estate

This guesthouse stay, just 30 minutes outside Cape Town, affords you a nostalgic glimpse into South Africa’s vintage winelands world: lingering breakfasts, vineyard walks, sundowners on the stoop and feelgood dinners in Hawksmoor House's 18th-century dining room.

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La Residence

Garden Route & Winelands, South Africa

Style
Cape château

Setting
Magnificent vineyard vistas

Presiding over Franschhoek’s valley of vines, La Residence is a mini, modern Versailles with a contemporary shell and a romantic colonial interior: everywhere the eye comes to rest there’s a Persian rug, exotic antique or fine art work.

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Schoone Oordt

Garden Route & Winelands, South Africa

Style
Tranquil Victorian homestead

Setting
Foothills of the Langeberg Mountains

Among the neat trees and quiet streets of historic Swellendam, you'll find the pretty facade of boutique B&B Schoone Oordt, framed by wrought-iron filigree and surrounded by fountains and roses. It's the perfect escape for weekending Capetonians (or Garden Route explorers).

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