The Constantia, Cape Town: road house review

By Graham Boynton 800AM GMT twenty March 2010

Previous of Images Next The Constatia is a stylish, eight-room skill with great courtesy to item Large suites open onto sealed gardens that yield a clarity of isolated oppulance The pool and gardens of the Constantia

The location

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Set in a poetic grassed area in the poetic grassed area suburb of Constantia, important for the winemaking and fanciful homes. This is where Mark Thatcher once lived but he has prolonged given changed on. It is a 20-minute expostulate from the centre of Cape Town.

We like

The actuality that it is a stylish, eight-room, comprehensive boutique skill with great courtesy to item a pacific shelter from Cape party-going. Every night you will find a kid of Jameson"s watchful for you in the corridor and a crème brûle in your room. Very cute. Also, lunch, cooking and washing are enclosed in the price, as are the snacks, cocktails and residence wines that are done accessible via the day. The net outcome is you feel you are the residence guest of an intensely inexhaustible host. It additionally has a smashing regretful ambience and so has proposed to capture honeymoon couples.

Not so keen

It is utterly a expostulate from the main Cape Town activities vital restaurants, Camps Bay, V&A Waterfront and if you have booze with your dish at any of the city"s prime executive locations it equates to you are in for a prolonged cab float home as there are drink-driving roadblocks all over the Cape these days.

The rooms

Large suites that open onto sealed gardens yield a clarity of isolated luxury. Interiors are well written but humour from somewhat strict style. The bathrooms are superb big, absolute showers and generous, egg-shaped bathtubs.

The pick guests

Affluent Americans, Scandinavians, Dutch and British. Predominantly couples of a sure age who suffer the peaceful, in vogue environment.

The food and drink

Own-label Cape wines are dangerously quaffable, breakfasts are as full of health as you wish them to be and the dinners are great but being gourmet. Right subsequent doorway is rarely regarded Peddlars On The Bend grill that offers a available alternative.

Disabled access

There are bedrooms versed for infirm guest and there is easy wheelchair access.

The bottom line

Suites from 4,300 rand (�385) in high deteriorate and 2,900 rand (�260) in low season, doubles from 3,750 rand (�335) high deteriorate and 2,400 rand (�215) for low.

The details

The Constantia is piece of the Last Word organisation (0027 twenty-one 794 6561; thelastword.co.za) and bookings can be done by the executive advance booking number. The Constantia approach series is twenty-one 794 7657.

Telegraph rating

7/10