Myself and wife are just back after 5 great nights in Cape Town. After reading the great reviews on this hotel on Trip Advisor we thought we would give it a go. On arrival there appeared quite a lot of noisy construction work going on accross the street due to expansion of the hotel. We were not unduley concerned, but soon were as we were given a room facing directly on to a full blown demolition project. We had just come in from a 12 hour flight an were initally very grateful they allowed us to check in at 11am hoping for a couple hours sleep but there was no hope given the unbelieveable noise. I complained immediately and to be fair, by the end of the day we had a much better room on the top floor on another side of the building. The construction work I believe is going on until June/July 2009 and nothing was mentioned to us while booking (which we were not so happy about) so please make sure you are allocated a room away from the noise. Once moved, the work did not affect us at all.
Bad stuff over, I have to say once we moved room everything was great and much in line with other comments. Staff superb, friendly and helpful. Room was modern, funky and great and was cleaned to an exceptionally high standard every day. Breakfast was great with a huge selection and we ate dinner once which was not quite as good as we hoped, but not bad. Overall would heartily recommend this hotel, just check on the construction and where your room is going to be....
