The 14 Best Luxury Hotels in Cape Town
From the Cape Grace Hotel to the Erinvale Estate Hotel: the finest luxury addresses in Cape Town, hand-picked by our travel experts. Every suitespot booking comes with free breakfast for 2, a room upgrade subject to availability, hotel credit and VIP service – benefits worth over €500.
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The top hotels in Cape Town at a glance
From legendary grand hotels to intimate design addresses: these properties lead our ranking for Cape Town. See at a glance where each hotel is located, which loyalty program earns you points and where nightly rates begin. "From" prices are current entry rates and may include limited-time promotional rates.
| Hotel | Location | Hotel program | suitespot score | Price from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Grace Hotel Cape Town | V&A Waterfront | ALL (Accor) | ★ 4.9/5 | 810 € |
| Erinvale Estate Hotel | Kapstadt | I Prefer | ★ 4.7/5 | 200 € |
| Taj Cape Town | Stadtmitte | Taj InnerCircle | ★ 4.6/5 | 190 € |
| Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Cape Town | City Bowl | – | ★ 4.5/5 | 650 € |
| The Cellars Hohenort Hotel Cape Town | Cape Town | – | ★ 4.3/5 | 270 € |
| The 12 Apostles Hotel and Spa Cape Town | Ward 54 | – | ★ 4.3/5 | 440 € |
| Cape Cadogan Cape Town | Gardens | – | ★ 4.3/5 | 470 € |
| One&Only Cape Town | Green Point | – | ★ 4.2/5 | 670 € |
| InterContinental Table Bay Cape Town | Mouille Point | IHG One Rewards | ★ 4.2/5 | 510 € |
| The Last Word Constantia Cape Town | Constantia | I Prefer | ★ 4.1/5 | 250 € |
Current offers & deals for luxury hotels in Cape Town
Many of our partner hotels in Cape Town offer special conditions bookable via suitespot – from free nights to discounts on longer stays. Your suitespot benefits (breakfast, upgrade chance, hotel credit) apply on top.
| Hotel | Offer | Bookable until |
|---|---|---|
| InterContinental Table Bay Cape Town | Fourth night free | December 15, 2026 |
| The Last Word Constantia Cape Town | Available on request only | December 31, 2027 |
| The President Hotel Cape Town | Available on request only | December 31, 2027 |
| The Silo Kapstadt | Available on request only | December 31, 2027 |
Your guide to the best luxury hotels in Cape Town
Cape Grace Hotel Cape Town · V&A WaterfrontWith every booking through suitespot you receive a comprehensive package of suitespot benefits:- Complimentary breakfast for two
- Room upgrade subject to availability
- Up to 100 USD hotel credit per stay
- Early check-in and late check-out subject to availability
- Standard points and status benefits in the hotel programmes
The Silo, in the Silo District at the V&A Waterfront, stands apart at around 1,520 € per night – close to double the next property on the list. Below it come the Cape Grace (810 €), One&Only Cape Town (670 €) and the Belmond Mount Nelson (650 €).
The middle of the selection is wide: the InterContinental Table Bay (510 €), Cape Cadogan (470 €), The 12 Apostles (440 €), Morea House (300 €), the Radisson Collection Waterfront (290 €), The Cellars-Hohenort (270 €) and The Last Word Constantia (250 €). At the lower end, the Erinvale Estate (200 €), the Taj Cape Town (190 €) and The President in Bantry Bay, from around 150 €.
Six of the fourteen belong to a hotel loyalty programme. The other eight take part in none – which says nothing about independence here: One&Only and the Belmond Mount Nelson belong to international groups that simply do not issue points.
The most expensive and most exclusive hotels in Cape Town
This is asked about Cape Town more often than almost anything else, and the answer here is unusually clear-cut.
Erinvale Estate Hotel · KapstadtBy rate, The Silo leads by a distance: around 1,520 € per night in the Silo District at the V&A Waterfront, roughly double the next property in our selection. It is a small house, and the gap between it and everything else is the widest we see in any South African city.Personal luxury travel adviceOur travel advisors personally accompany your booking – 365 days a year, from the first offer to late check-out. Reach the suitespot VIP service via email or WhatsApp.Phone: +49 30 81452346 · hotel@suitespot.comBelow it the field is closer: the Cape Grace (810 €) on West Quay Road, One&Only Cape Town (670 €) on Dock Road and the Belmond Mount Nelson (650 €) on Orange Street, above the city in the Gardens quarter. Three grand houses within 160 € of one another, in two entirely different settings.
By what is included, the answer changes completely. The 12 Apostles (440 €) on Victoria Road in Camps Bay carries the richest package in the city: a complimentary lunch for two, an afternoon tea for two and a massage for two. It is the only property here where the benefits are experiences rather than credit – and, correspondingly, the only one of the expensive houses without a hotel credit at all.
By rating, our own reviewers have stayed at two: the Belmond Mount Nelson and the Taj Cape Town, both rated 4.5. That the Taj costs 190 € and the Mount Nelson 650 € is the most useful single fact on this page.
Worth checking before you book: The Cellars-Hohenort in Constantia applies a two-night minimum stay, and three properties carry a smaller hotel credit than the usual 100 USD – The President and The Last Word Constantia at 25 USD, the Cellars-Hohenort at 50 USD, and the Radisson Collection at 50 USD from its Premium Room category upwards.
Where to stay in Cape Town, by address
Cape Town's neighbourhoods differ more than in most cities: the working harbour, the old town under Table Mountain, the Atlantic beaches and the wine valleys behind the mountain are four separate experiences within half an hour of each other.
Taj Cape Town · StadtmitteOur fourteen properties divide between them as follows.
The V&A Waterfront – five properties in a kilometre
The densest concentration in our South African portfolio: The Silo in the Silo District (from around 1,520 €), the Cape Grace on West Quay Road (810 €), One&Only Cape Town on Dock Road (670 €), the InterContinental Table Bay on Quay 6 (510 €) and the Radisson Collection at Granger Bay (290 €). All five are within roughly a kilometre, all on the water, and the rate spread between them is more than fivefold. This is the safest choice for a first visit – restaurants, the harbour and the boats to Robben Island are on the doorstep.
City Bowl and Gardens – under the mountain
The Belmond Mount Nelson (76 Orange Street, 650 €) and Cape Cadogan (5 Upper Union Street, 470 €) stand 300 metres apart in Gardens, on the slope below Table Mountain; the Taj Cape Town (1 Wale Street, 190 €) is a kilometre further down, on the corner of St George's Mall in the city centre. This is the walkable, historic part of Cape Town, and it holds both the lowest rate in the central area and one of the highest.
Camps Bay – two properties, one road
The 12 Apostles and Morea House both stand on Victoria Road in Camps Bay (440 € and 300 €), the coast road along the Atlantic seaboard beneath the Twelve Apostles ridge. Beach and sunsets rather than city; around twenty minutes over Kloof Nek from the centre.
Constantia and Bantry Bay
The Cellars-Hohenort (93 Brommersvlei Road, 270 €) and The Last Word Constantia (34 Spaanschemat River Road, 250 €) are in the Constantia valley, the wine district inside the city limits some fifteen kilometres south. The President (4 Alexander Road, Bantry Bay, 150 €) is on the Atlantic seaboard between the Waterfront and Camps Bay, and is the lowest entry rate in our Cape Town selection.
One property is not in Cape Town at all
The Erinvale Estate Hotel (from around 200 €) appears on this page because that is the town recorded against it in our database. Its address is 1 Erinvale Avenue, Somerset West – between 42 and 50 kilometres from every other property listed here, on the far side of False Bay at the edge of the Winelands.
Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel Cape Town · City BowlWe would rather say so before you book. If you are here for Cape Town, this is not the address: the drive into the city takes the best part of an hour each way, and it is the wrong direction for Table Mountain, the Waterfront and the beaches.
If, on the other hand, you are heading for Stellenbosch and the wine estates, it is well placed and considerably less expensive than the city. In that case it is worth comparing with Mont Rochelle in Franschhoek (430 €), which is in the Winelands proper and which we also list.
The same logic applies in a milder form to the two Constantia properties. The Cellars-Hohenort and The Last Word are inside the municipality, but they are fifteen kilometres from the centre in a valley of vineyards – suburban rather than urban, and a car is close to essential.
For a first visit to Cape Town, the Waterfront, the City Bowl and Camps Bay are the three areas that put you where you want to be.
What a luxury hotel in Cape Town costs
Entry rates in our selection run from around 150 € per night at The President in Bantry Bay to about 1,520 € at The Silo, giving a median of roughly 370 € per night.
That range – a factor of ten – is the widest of any city in our African and South American selection, and it is not evenly filled. The Silo alone occupies the top, at close to double the Cape Grace (810 €). Below 700 € the field is dense: eight of the fourteen properties start between 190 € and 510 €, so most of the practical decision happens in a fairly narrow band.
The most instructive comparison on this page is the Taj Cape Town at 190 € against the Belmond Mount Nelson at 650 €. Both are in the City Bowl, a kilometre apart, and both are rated 4.5 by our own reviewers. The difference is the house and the grounds, not the location or the standard of the stay.
Two properties also carry noticeably better value at the bottom: the Erinvale Estate (200 €) is inexpensive because it is 45 kilometres away, and The President (150 €) because Bantry Bay is a residential stretch rather than a destination in itself.
Cape Town before or after a safari – and the cruise-port transfer
Most of our guests reach Cape Town as one leg of a longer South African trip, and our portfolio in the country runs to fourteen further properties outside the city.Personal luxury travel adviceOur travel advisors personally accompany your booking – 365 days a year, from the first offer to late check-out. Reach the suitespot VIP service via email or WhatsApp.Phone: +49 30 81452346 · hotel@suitespot.comIn the Winelands, Mont Rochelle at Franschhoek (from around 430 €). Along the Garden Route, The Plettenberg at Plettenberg Bay (335 €) and The Manor House at George (540 €), with The Marine at Hermanus (269 €) on the whale coast in between. In Johannesburg, four properties including the Saxon (494 €) and the Park Hyatt (354 €).
And then the game reserves, which are a different proposition entirely: Royal Malewane at Thornybush (around 3,490 €), Shambala at Vaalwater (5,080 €), andBeyond Phinda in KwaZulu-Natal, Savanna in the Sabi Sand and Kapama near Hoedspruit. Of those five, only Royal Malewane is flagged in our data as an all-inclusive rate, so the figures are not directly comparable with one another, let alone with a city rate. What is comparable is the order of magnitude: the Cape Town nights at either end of a safari are almost always the least expensive part of the trip.
One benefit worth knowing about if you are joining a ship: One&Only Cape Town includes a complimentary one-way transfer to or from the cruise terminal on a pre- or post-cruise stay. It is the only property in our Cape Town selection that does, and the terminal is at the Waterfront a few minutes away.
As a suitespot guest you travel with VIP status: we pass your preferences to the hotel before you arrive – in Cape Town most often a room facing Table Mountain or the sea, which in the Waterfront and Camps Bay properties is a category of its own rather than an upgrade. On top of that come breakfast for two, an upgrade subject to availability and up to 100 USD hotel credit.
Earn points & use your status in Cape Town
suitespot rates are genuine direct rates: you keep earning regular points and elite nights in the hotel's loyalty program and retain your status benefits – on top of your suitespot benefits. These programs are represented in Cape Town:
| Program | Hotels | Examples in Cape Town |
|---|---|---|
| I Prefer | 3 hotels | Erinvale Estate Hotel, The Last Word Constantia Cape Town, The President Hotel Cape Town |
| ALL (Accor) | 1 hotel | Cape Grace Hotel Cape Town |
| IHG One Rewards | 1 hotel | InterContinental Table Bay Cape Town |
| Marriott Bonvoy | 1 hotel | Morea House Cape Town |
| Radisson Rewards | 1 hotel | Waterfront Cape Town Radisson Collection Hotel |
| Taj InnerCircle | 1 hotel | Taj Cape Town |
Frequently asked questions about luxury hotels in Cape Town
How much does a luxury hotel in Cape Town cost?
Entry rates across our fourteen Cape Town properties start at around 150 € per night at The President in Bantry Bay and reach about 1,520 € at The Silo at the V&A Waterfront. The median is roughly 370 € per night.
The range is not evenly filled. The Silo stands alone at the top, at close to double the Cape Grace (810 €), while eight of the fourteen start between 190 € and 510 € – which is where most of the real choice lies.
With suitespot you always book at direct rates, and the benefits worth more than 500 € come on top.
Which is the most expensive hotel in Cape Town?
The Silo, in the Silo District at the V&A Waterfront, from around 1,520 € per night – roughly double the next property in our selection and ten times the least expensive.
After it come the Cape Grace on West Quay Road (810 €), One&Only Cape Town on Dock Road (670 €) and the Belmond Mount Nelson in Gardens (650 €) – three grand houses within 160 € of one another.
Worth setting against that: the Taj Cape Town in the city centre costs around 190 € and carries the same 4.5 rating from our own reviewers as the Mount Nelson does. In Cape Town, price and quality separate more than in most cities.
Do I earn points and can I use my status with suitespot?
In Cape Town, at six of our fourteen properties – a lower share than in most cities, because this is a city of individually run houses.
The six are the Cape Grace (ALL – Accor Live Limitless), the Taj Cape Town (Taj InnerCircle), the InterContinental Table Bay (IHG Rewards), the Radisson Collection Waterfront (Radisson Rewards), and the Erinvale Estate and The Last Word Constantia (both iPrefer).
The other eight take part in no points programme. That does not make them all independent: One&Only, the Belmond Mount Nelson and others belong to international groups that simply do not issue points.
What they give instead varies. The 12 Apostles, for instance, includes a lunch, an afternoon tea and a massage for two rather than a hotel credit.
Where should I stay in Cape Town?
For a first visit, the V&A Waterfront: five of our properties are there within roughly a kilometre – The Silo (from around 1,520 €), the Cape Grace (810 €), One&Only (670 €), the InterContinental Table Bay (510 €) and the Radisson Collection (290 €). Restaurants, the harbour and the Robben Island boats are on the doorstep.
For the historic city under the mountain, the City Bowl: the Belmond Mount Nelson (650 €) and Cape Cadogan (470 €) in Gardens, 300 metres apart, and the Taj Cape Town (190 €) in the centre.
For beach and sunsets, Camps Bay: The 12 Apostles (440 €) and Morea House (300 €), both on Victoria Road, about twenty minutes from the centre.
Constantia and Bantry Bay are the quieter options, and Erinvale is 45 kilometres out of town.
Is the Erinvale Estate Hotel in Cape Town?
Not really. Its address is 1 Erinvale Avenue, Somerset West, between 42 and 50 kilometres from every other property on this page and close to an hour's drive from the city centre.
It appears here because Somerset West is recorded under Cape Town in our database, but it is a Winelands hotel, on the far side of False Bay at the foot of the Hottentots Holland mountains.
At around 200 € per night it is one of the least expensive properties in our South African selection, and for a trip built around Stellenbosch and the wine estates it is well placed. For a Cape Town city break it is not, and we would rather say so in advance. If the Winelands are the point, compare it with Mont Rochelle at Franschhoek (430 €).
Which Cape Town hotels are closest to the beach?
Two properties stand on Victoria Road in Camps Bay, the Atlantic seaboard road below the Twelve Apostles ridge: The 12 Apostles (from around 440 €) and Morea House (300 €). They are the closest thing in our selection to a beach hotel, roughly twenty minutes over Kloof Nek from the city centre.
The President (150 €) in Bantry Bay is on the same seaboard between the Waterfront and Camps Bay, at the lowest rate of our Cape Town selection.
The five V&A Waterfront properties are all on the water, but that is a working harbour rather than a beach – the swimming beaches are ten to twenty minutes further south.
Bear in mind that the Atlantic here is cold year-round; most guests use the hotel pool and the beach for the view.
What is included at The 12 Apostles that is not elsewhere?
The 12 Apostles on Victoria Road in Camps Bay (from around 440 €) carries the most generous benefit package of our fourteen Cape Town properties, and it is made of experiences rather than credit: a complimentary lunch for two, a complimentary afternoon tea for two and a complimentary massage for two.
The trade-off is that it is the only one of the more expensive properties in the city without a hotel credit, so if you prefer to spend the value your own way, another house will suit you better.
One other benefit worth knowing: One&Only Cape Town includes a complimentary one-way transfer to or from the cruise terminal at the Waterfront on a pre- or post-cruise stay – the only property in our selection that does.
Should I combine Cape Town with a safari?
Most of our guests do, and the two halves of such a trip cost very different amounts.
Our South African portfolio holds five game reserves beyond the city: Royal Malewane at Thornybush (around 3,490 € per night), Shambala at Vaalwater (5,080 €), andBeyond Phinda in KwaZulu-Natal, Savanna in the Sabi Sand and Kapama near Hoedspruit. Of those five, only Royal Malewane carries an all-inclusive rate in our data; at the others the rate covers different things, so compare them individually rather than against a city night.
In practical terms, the Cape Town nights are usually the least expensive part of a South African trip, and the ones with the most choice: fourteen properties from 150 € upwards.
Between the two we also list the Winelands (Mont Rochelle, 430 €), the Garden Route (The Plettenberg 335 €, The Manor House 540 €) and the whale coast at Hermanus (269 €).
