Barrydale

ONCE JUST A PULL-OFF ON ROUTE 62, THIS LIVELY TOWN HAS BECOME A DESTINATION IN ITS OWN RIGHT, COMBINING THE BEST OF KLEIN-KAROO AND CAPE FARM COUNTRY. CHECK IN FOR A STAY AT THESE SPOTS

HOW TripAdvisor lists accommodation rated by guests, but as much as we love peer reviews, they don’t offer a comparative voice – so how do we know No. 1 is really the best? Pippa de Bruyn, who has reviewed accommodation for 20 years for the likes of Frommer’s and The Telegraph, scours TripAdvisor and other online sites when researching a destination.

For Barrydale, she created a longlist of 20 to inspect. The following made the cut.