Garden Route & Winelands Hotels
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’.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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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