Cape Town Hollow

Cape Town Hollow is at 88 Queen Victoria Street in Gardens. The hotel calls itself a 4-star boutique and describes the site as sitting between Table Mountain and the V&A Waterfront, the CTICC, and the city centre. The page counts 56 en-suite rooms: 28 mountain-facing, with Juliet balconies toward Table Mountain, and 28 standard rooms looking over the city. The restaurant is Eighty-Ate, named for that street number, and it looks over the Company's Garden toward the mountain. There is a pool and a business lounge. A conference room holds up to 60 people cinema-style, or 30 classroom-style. The phone is +27 21 423 1260. The page does not print a nightly rate.

Queen Victoria Street is the point. You are in the city bowl, under the mountain, not on the Atlantic in Green Point and not in a house above Camps Bay. The Waterfront is a trip, not a walk out of the lobby. Ask for a mountain-facing room if the Juliet balcony is why you chose Gardens. Someone who wanted the sea at the window should book the coast. Someone who wants the mountain at the end of the street, and a meeting in town the next morning, is in the right hotel.

Reserve with the hotel. MindReach does not take the booking.