Quayside Hotel

Simon's Town is a quaint old sailor's town in Cape Town, South Africa, and is host to the South African navy. With a rich coastal history, and serene surroundings, it is a great place for a holiday. Whether you are a business or a leisure traveler, Quayside Hotel provides for your needs in luxury and style. The Quayside Hotel is a four star hotel with majestic, sweeping views over the bay and Simon's Kloof mountains. Superb accommodation and conference facilities make Quayside Hotel the perfect hotel for business and leisure travelers.

Accommodation at Quayside Hotel consists of:

The luxury rooms offer extensive views over False Bay and Simon's Town yacht basin. All rooms benefit from en suite bathrooms with a separate bath and a shower. Private balconies giver you access to the fresh sea breeze while enjoying spectacular sunrises and sunsets. There is a choice between luxury, superior and standard rooms. The 8 luxury rooms have twin beds and are sea-facing with a sea view. The 13 superior rooms are sea-facing, 11 of which are twin rooms, and 2 of which are queen size. The 5 standard rooms are mountain facing and benefit from 5 twin rooms. Rooms are contemporary, very breathable and merge outwardly to the sea, offering a very spacious feel.

A variety of restaurants cater for a wide array of tastes, and bring you the finest of Cape wines for those romantic, candle-lit dinners. The Quayside Waterfront Center offers superb restaurants, including Bertha's, Bon Appetite (one of the Top 100 rated restaurants in South Africa), the Harbor View Coffee Shop and The Salty Sea Dog. Three conference centers; the Drakensberg, the Protea and the Outeniqua, offer world-class facilities for your conferencing needs.

Activities in the local area provide great opportunities for exploring this historical town: sea kayaking takes you across the bay; available for rowers of all levels. The harbor tour on "Spirit of Just Nuisance" ferry takes you on an enlightening tour of the area with permission to enter the naval harbor and view the ships, including strikecraft and submarines. Sailing, boat rowing and whale watching are other favorites. Tours of the SAS Drakensberg, SAS Outeniqua and the SAS Protea all provide you with unique looks at South African naval warships. Mountain biking, hiking and sightseeing at many of the historical places in the area are other options. One of the more unique options is Japanese kite fighting, where two controllers try to batter their opponents' kite out of the sky.