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One of the five most beautiful cities in the world has attracted to its confines a large variety of five star Cape Town hotels. Cape Town experiences a huge tourist industry and is also an extremely active business destination, and consistently wins 90% of all the conferences it bids for. The city has large range of accommodation options - we review the high end of the luxury hotel market here.
Cape Town has a reputation of being the most welcoming city in Africa, it provides American-style malls, European fashion boutiques art galleries, museums and of course wonderful excuses for experiencing the outdoors, travel by cable car to the top of table Mountain or hike with an experienced tour guide who should keep you safe from the inquisitive the baboons you may find on your journey. The top of the mountain provides the most magnificent view from where you may marvel at all that is Cape Town.
A heady mix of five-star hotel accommodation is provided throughout the city of Cape Town, and each and every one architecturally splendid, housing comfortable and stylish elegant interiors, presenting delectable cuisines coupled with high tech amenities and facilities and serviced by exemplary staff.
Cape Town is situated in South Africa's far south western corner and is physically separated from the rest of the country by a barrier of mountains; it has hot dry summers and cool wet winters. It is by far the most cosmopolitan city in the country perhaps this is due to its beauty as it has attracted to its confines many nationalities and cultures, it is quite likely that you may hear German and French spoken as well as Afrikaans and English.
Unique too is the Capes' architectural heritage the landscape is sprinkled with Cape Dutch homesteads, neo-Gothic churches, Muslim minarets and English inspired Georgian and Victorian buildings a testament to the influences of the multifaceted colonial parsed.
This city has won a number of awards including: "best destination in Africa and Middle East", 'best value for money", 'best city in the world to eat out", and with the hosting of the 2010 and world cup soccer on the horizon it is sure to remain on the global map of the top hotspots to visit. In the winter the city is free of tourists and wonderfully green, dolphins and whales stop at the many bays along the coastline, table Mountain often draped in flowing tablecloth cloud forms an imposing backdrop while minutes away, pristine Sandy beaches line a cliff hugging Coast, magnificent valleys spread out at the base of the mountain providing fertile lands carpeted with vines that are the suppliers of some of the world's finest wines.
Five star Cape Town hotels individually site themselves in various locations to allow the hotels to luxuriate in its magnificent setting. The hotels vary dramatically from geometric architectural high rise marvels in the city centre, to grandiose historical architectural Classics to exclusive Victorian boutique buildings to sprawling Cape Dutch Homesteads.
Five star hotels take a tremendous amount of pride in themselves and are not just hotels but rather 'landmarks' and 'experiences', the wonderfully skilled master architects and interior designers have created spaces that sympathetically in encompass their surroundings.
Each and every hotel offers their guests a wonderful sojourn, from the moment you enter the senses are assailed by the uniquely designed interiors where much attention to detail has been taken to complement the architecture of the building.
Many of the Cape Town five star hotels provide chauffeur driven limousine for airport transfers and on arrival the guest is greeted with a welcome drink by your personal concierge who will oversee your entire holiday; from booking of restaurants, to tours of the city and especially arranged events.
The hotels accommodations are grand and many take on the form of multi room suites individually designed interiors presenting sitting rooms, dining rooms, kitchenettes and sumptuously comfortable master bedrooms housing oversized King size beds dressed in fine linens. The rooms flow effortlessly onto balconies and verandas furnished with comfortable loungers allowing the guest a quiet place to relax and watch the sunset over the Atlantic Ocean.
The hotels provide excellent facilities for the business traveller in the form of varying sized venues, equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and overseen by highly skilled conference facilitators. On-site gymnasiums allow the guest a healthy workout; the health spas present tranquil surroundings in which to relax the mind, body and soul.
Superlative restaurants found amongst these hotels are some of the most well-known highlights of Cape Town and frequented by the chic and trendy, movie moguls, models, celebrities and business leaders. Capetonians' love to eat and nowhere is this more evident than in the fabulous restaurants that supply freshly caught seafood, wonderful cuts of meat and locally farmed fresh vegetables. Naturally the selections of wine are immense and in the main locally produced proudly from the nearby wine lands.
These five-star hotels provide wonderful amenities and facilities and include: tennis, courts, golf course, health spas and gymnasium, business centres, shopping arcades, high speed Internet access, currency exchange, travel desk, hairdresser and 24 hour room service.
Regardless of which hotel is chosen a guest of any five star Cape Town hotel is sure to come away with a wonderful life experience as the indulgent interiors, tantalizing cuisines, state of the art service, it is an experience not easily forgotten.
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