Mount Nelson Hotel - Cape Town

The luxury Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town is positioned within a widespread green garden area, close to the V&A Waterfront and Cape Town’s best beaches. The Mount Nelson Hotel is ideal for business travellers, family holidays or honeymoons. It provides neat services, luxurious rooms and suites, that have magnificent views of Table Mountain. Facilities include a tiny wellness centre, a gym, business centre and one of the most popular, best, bars in Cape Town

All the rooms are spacious and of the high standard you would expect of a good traditional 5* hotel. The en-suite rooms all have big beds and traditional wooden furniture including writing table and comfortable chairs. Rooms have a safe, good cupboard space, satellite TV, internet connection, a choice of classic Oscar winning movies to watch and room service.

Situated on the ground floor & decorated with palm trees & dark columns, the restaurant is famed throughout Capetown as one of the best in the city. The menu is changed regularly and there is an excellent choice of local an international fine wines. Live music is often played in the restaurant.

In keeping with the rest of the hotel the lobby is very traditional with subtle colonial decor. There is a reception desk to the left as you enter and the concierge desk to the right - both are in dark wood and have pictures of Orient Express tours from the beginning of the 20th century. The walls are sand colour typical of traditional South African hotels.

The Mount Nelson is spread out over several acres of land and has an incredibly picturesque palm tree laden driveway that eads you to the hotel entrance. The main building is 3 storeys tall and as it was in 1899, the hotel is painted pink and is affectionatly known as the 'Pink Lady' in Cape Town.