SWELLENDAM

Generous hosts and a dog-friendly stopover in SA’s third-oldest town

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 Swellendam, she created a longlist of 29 to inspect. The following made the cut.