Redbournw Hilldrop

Redbourne Hilldrop

Selected by The Greenwood Guide to South Africa, 2nd edition

Text written by Simon Greenwood

One of the happiest and most humorous guest houses in Cape Town, so it always seems to me. Many of Jonny and Sharon�s guests refuse to stay elsewhere and gifts arrive daily from overseas� well almost. One day you may be surprised to find yourself packing up toys for their kids. It�s a small, intimate place and you are spoiled: free-standing baths, fluffy duvets, big white pillows, unflowery good taste in mirrors and wood floors, magazines, African artefacts, great showers.

One room has a spiral staircase down to its bathroom. You eat breakfast at a diner-style bar stretched along a wall of pretty windows with incredible city views. Guests are treated as far as possible as friends and each time I visit I notice the easy rapport that Jonny and Sharon have generated with their guests � probably overnight. Last edition I said that a wall-enclosed pool would be ready for this edition, but I didn�t really believe it. �It wouldn�t matter if it wasn�t�. I said, hedging my bets. Well, lo and behold, there it is, with Table Mountain looming above as suggested it might!

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