Most hotels in Cape Town look at the sea. This one sits in it.
The Radisson Collection stands on the rocks at Granger Bay, at the very edge of the Atlantic, beside a little private marina and a few minutes from the V&A Waterfront. You fall asleep to the sound of the waves breaking below, and wake to Table Mountain in the morning light.
It is a calm, easy place to begin a journey: close enough to walk to the harbour, Robben Island and the restaurants of the Waterfront, and far enough out on the water to feel like an escape. On the terrace at Tobago's, guests are sometimes treated to dolphins passing by. What they do is up to them.
John Sparks
Rooms over the Atlantic
Every room has a king or two twin beds. For the full effect, ask for the ocean.
Collection rooms
Ocean, marina or mountain
Calm, well-made rooms looking over the sea, the marina or towards Table Mountain, several with their own balcony.
Junior Suites
Balcony and ocean
More space, a sitting area and a balcony over the water. The ones to choose for a longer stay.
The suites
For families and celebrations
Ocean-view suites with balconies, up to the Presidential Suite: two bedrooms and the whole bay in front of you.
Tobago's, above the waves
Breakfast, lunch and dinner on a terrace right over the sea, with a menu from Chef Grant Cullingworth and a good list of Cape wines. At sunset it is one of the loveliest places in the city for a glass of something.
The pool and the Amani Spa
An infinity pool that seems to run straight into the sea, and a spa with eleven treatment rooms, two couples' suites, a salt room, a Rasul chamber and a heated vitality pool. The gym is open around the clock.
Around the hotel
Cape Town from the water's edge
The Waterfront
A short stroll or the hotel shuttle into the V&A Waterfront: the harbour, the Zeitz MOCAA gallery, the markets and the boats.
Robben Island
The ferries leave from the Waterfront, a few minutes away, for the island where Nelson Mandela spent eighteen of his twenty-seven years in prison.
Table Mountain
Up by cable car on a clear morning, with the whole of the city and both oceans laid out below.
The Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade begins just along the coast: a long, easy walk by the ocean at any hour.
The peninsula
Out over Chapman's Peak to the Cape of Good Hope, and home past the penguins at Boulders.
More photographs, to look through
Twenty-six photographs of the hotel, the rooms, Tobago's and the spa. View them large and download any you like.
Open the gallery ↗Fall asleep to the waves. Wake up to the mountain.
Before you go
Where
Beach Road, Granger Bay, right on the water beside the V&A Waterfront. About twenty minutes from the airport; we arrange every transfer.
Arriving and leaving
Rooms are ready from three in the afternoon, and we leave by midday on the last morning.
Getting about
The Waterfront is a short walk along the water, and the hotel runs a shuttle at set times.
Families
Children are very welcome, and family rooms and suites have space to spread out.
Pairs well with
A night or two by the sea at Tintswalo Atlantic, the winelands of Stellenbosch, and the whales of Walker Bay.