Akademie Street Boutique Hotel and Guest House

This boutique hotel and guest house offersfive different accommodation options. Three of the buildings, Gelatenheid, Oortuiging and Vreugde each have their own sun-kissed swimming pool and shady, private garden. The fourth building, Uitsig is a separate, large, luxurious upstairs suite with balcony and lovely views. The fifth building, Twyfeling is a gracious Cape Dutch style house with large living rooms and two large bedroom suites. Uitsig and Twyfeling share a large, heated pool and garden.

It is an easy stroll to the renowned restaurants and attractions in the village of Franschhoek and almost all of the most famous vineyards of the Cape Winelands are a short drive away.

Akademie Street's accommodation is the perfect place in the Cape Winelands to enjoy peace, privacy and tranquillity with personal attention from the owner managers always available. Franschhoek is the wine and gourmet capital of the Cape but is less than an hour from down-town Cape Town.

Gelatenheid

Gelatenheid is a gloriously spacious double storey guest house with a wide balcony and superb mountain views over the Franschoek Winelands. It has an extra large loft incorporating the bed/dressing/sitting room with an extra length king size bed (or twin extra length beds on prior notice), TV and en-suite bathroom. This is guest house and boutique hotel accommodation at its most spacious.In a quiet corner of the balcony of this Franschhoek guest house a Victorian bath rests under the tree tops. Downstairs is a large lounge and kitchenette with French doors leading out onto a veranda with a pool and fountain garden.

Oortuiging

Oortuiging is an atmospheric Franschhoek cottage built in the 1860's. It adds interest to the Akademie Street boutique hotel collection as it played a role in the history of Franschhoek during the Anglo-Boer war. It has two en-suite bathrooms, a lounge, a kitchen and a dining room. This guest house in Franshoek can accommodate two persons sharing in spacious luxury and has its own pool and private shade and sun gardens. The guest house has accommodation for three persons. The main bedroom has an extra length king size bed but with prior notice twin beds can be organized in it. The house is in the shade of a giant white stinkwood tree or one can lie, if one chooses, in the sun in the private pool garden.

Vreugde

Vreugde is a garden suite that sleeps two. The bath and shower are separate, there is a small kitchenette and French doors open onto a wide veranda with a beautiful garden and small pool. Vreugde guest house offers both tranquillity and peace. One can lounge on the leather sofa on the porch listening to the birds and the singing of the fountain. This is a very intimate, private place in the beautiful Franschhoek Valley, the loveliest part of the Winelands area of the Western Cape.

Uitsig

Uitsig, a private upstairs suite, gives wonderfully comfortable, spacious accommodation. The French doors open onto a sun-baked balcony with a lovely view of the mountains encircling Franschhoek. One feels as if one is floating in the tree tops. The bath and separate shower are in an ultra modern bathroom with under floor heating. The king size, extra length bed can be replaced by twin extra length beds on prior notice. Uitsig shares a large solar heated pool and lovely garden with the two suites in Twyfeling.

Twyveling

Twyfeling is a gracious Cape Dutch style house with a large living room and library and two large bedroom suites both incorporating the bed/dressing/sitting room with an extra length king size bed (or twin extra length beds on prior notice), TV and en-suite bathroom. This is Franschhoek accommodation at its most spacious. Twyfeling and Uitsig share a large, solar heated pool and gracious garden.