Suite for a

WAKING up to the smell of salty sea air, it took me a while to adjust to my surroundings. It was one of the few precious night where I had uninterrupted sleep – no one calling me from their room asking for water or waking up in the middle of the night to the sight of a little person standing beside my bed saying they can’t sleep.

I stayed there for a while, taking in the sound of the sleepless Atlantic, then walked slowly downstairs and opened the balcony door. My view from the 4th floor of the Bantry Bay Suite Hotel afforded a front row seat to Cape Town shaking off her mist-shrouded coat as the rest of the city was waking up.

My “bed” for the evening had been one of the 4-star hotel’s presidential suites. The loft-style apartment is luxuriously fitted with all the mod-cons you’d expect from a luxury hotel, and then there’s the extras like the coffee pod machine, two bathrooms and a fully-functional kitchenette.

It doesn’t hurt either that the hotel is surrounded by views for days, situated in one of the city’s most sought after suburbs, and it’s a hop and a skip from bars and restaurants.

Bantry Bay is a playground for the rich and famous, making the hotel perfectly positioned as a base from which to explore the city. With the fierce ocean on its doorstep and World Wonder Table Mountain directly above, it basically ticks all the boxes if you want a mixture of culture, beauty and a cosmopolitan lifestyle.

With 40 suites, the hotel prides itself in being big on hospitality and service. And therein lies its strong point. Too often large hotels tend to concentrate on their amenities, room size and brand, but they forget the important stuff – stuff that matters to hotel guests

The Bantry Bay Suite Hotel affords a front row seat to Cape Town.

The hotel prides itself in being big on hospitality.

The penthouse suite.