There are some great Cape Town hotels to stay at along the coastline, but if you want to be right at the beach with no other building between you and the surf, then you might have to look a lot longer and harder than you might have anticipated. Many a time pictures and hotel agencies can be deceiving in giving you a beachfront hotel.
If you enjoy self-catering, or if you like to get out and about when it’s time for breakfast, lunch or dinner, then renting a beachhouse is one route to go – and there are also some great self-catering apartments to choose from, such as those alongside the On the Rocks restaurant, Bloubergstrand. Actually, it’s at Bloubergstrand north of Cape Town’s harbour that you’ll find one of the few Cape Town hotels on the beachfront. The Dolphin Beach Hotel is a matter of steps away from the sea sand – a few dunes are all that separate the hotel and the Cabanas from the surf. The restaurant (Blowfish) is pretty good too, and the view of Table Mountain from across Table Bay is spectacular. A bit closer to the mountain is the Lagoon Beach Hotel & Apartments, 2km from the Milnerton Golf Course and 5km from the huge Canal Walk shopping complex. The Bay Hotel in Camps Bay is casually sophisticated, well-appointed and being no more than 100 metres from the beach, it spills onto one of the city’s most popular strips of restaurants, street cafés and bars. Just up the road, The Place on the Bay is just as trendy. And for somewhere luxurious and intimate to stay just a stone’s throw from the sea and sand, is The Last Word, an upmarket hotel overlooking Long Beach in Kommetjie.One of the most decadent, glorious Cape Town hotels for sure!
