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Cape Town

SOUTH AFRICA
  • CURRENCY South African Rand
  • LANGUAGE English and Afrikaans
  • WEATHER
  • FLYING TIME 11 hrs 40 mins
  • TIME ZONE GMT + 2
  • AIRLINE British Airways

Freedom has turned the Western Cape into a cultural melting pot

Holiday Offers

Below is a selection of our most popular Cape Town Holiday Offers. At Travel Concierge we take pride in not only offering an exceptionally high standard of service, but also the best value for money on Cape Town holidays. You will be able to view more Cape Town holiday deals on the offers page. If you can't find the Cape Town deal you are looking for, please call one of our Cape Town reservations consultants on 0161 729 0099

Destination Overview

Where Gauteng is the Gucci-suit-donning yuppie who sips lattes at the corner café at 5 am, Cape Town wears tie dye, goes barefoot and wakes up at noon. Get ready for South Africa's laziest region, which compensates for its slothful attitude through unadulterated friendliness.  

Holidays to Cape Town can be confronted at surface level by visiting the popular tourist hotspots. Alternatively, the grit and magic of its underbelly can be encountered through the lesser known destinations which have won favor from the locals. The Friendly City has won status as the pinnacle African destination at The World Tourism awards, but your holiday in Cape Town comes with a warning: Tourists habitually fall under its magnetic spell, regularly setting up home and business for extended stays that last lifetimes.    

Whilst post apartheid freedom has turned the Western Cape into a cultural melting pot, the lines drawn by the Group Areas Act continue to separate locations according to their character, if not their color. Language and cultural differences are no longer the barriers they once were, but regions continue to grasp onto their strong personalities and traditions. For this reason, Cape Town holidays in Gugulethu and Khayelitsha will offer you an insider's experience of Xhosa cuisine and energy that District Six will match by serving up Malay curries and serious jazz. The wealthier suburbs of Camps Bay and Hout Bay offer more generic tourist destinations, whereas Seapoint and the beachfront's southern suburbs act as eclectic artistic hubs.  

  The apartheid legacy has left an aftermath in the townships that is transcended only by the locals' vibrant smiles and communal lifestyles. Xhosa culture will cram the experience with the warmth and inclusiveness of community members. Tours are usually experienced in SA's iconic microbuses, which carry tourists beneath the poverty lines to experience rich African lifestyles. Kayelitsha locals are fanatical about dance. Contemporary youths bounce to local kwaito at the myriad shebeens on the flats while of traditional dancers in authentic costumes bop to the throb of drums and rattles. Traditional African beer and cracked maize will be served up at local restaurants, where meals are often accompanied by live marimba bands.   

Camps Bay and Hout Bay will give your Cape Town holiday a glittering sheen buzzing with trendy nightlife, local club rhythms and connoisseur-worthy cafes. Cape Town is famous for the beauty of its people, and sidewalk eateries let you watch bikini clad passers by as they hit the surf. Kalk Bay, Simons Town and Muisenberg offer a more eclectic beachside lifestyle complete with local theatrical productions and exhibitions. Extreme adventurers opt for Bloubergstrand, which kicks up a wind fierce enough for the pluckiest kite surfer. 

The Waterfront towers above most other Cape Town regions as a tourist destination. Shop for international haut couture at the mall itself, and enjoy international cuisine at its finest at the mall's premium restaurants. Stroll through the harbor and become acquainted with the seals that people-watch near the shore. Weekend trips will yield a buzzing atmosphere crammed with live music in the open square. Expect to see traditionally garbed Xhosa and Zulu dancers, whose marimba beats compete seamlessly with the sounds of jazzy buskers. The Waterfront's surrounds are home to some of the most sparkling hotels in Cape Town. The city is a favorite filming location for Hollywood A-listers, so a holiday in Cape Town usually comes with its fair share of celebrity spotting. 

Our Recommended Hotels in
CAPE TOWN

Southern Sun Waterfront Cape Town

£1186.00
3 nights with flights

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When to visit Cape Town

Cape Town

Do you need inspiration for when to go on holiday to Cape Town? Give the team of experts at Travel Concierge a call and we will help you plan your Cape Town holiday at the best time of year for your requirements. Although our Cape Town holiday search tool will allow you to search for Cape Town holiday prices upto 11 months in advance, we can also price holidays to Cape Town for 2025 and 2026. We can advise on the best time to travel on your Cape Town holiday based on Cape Town weather, special events in Cape Town or even when the crowds in Cape Town are at their lowest.

Cape Town

  Cape Town seasons are as tardy as the city's locals: Seasons always arrive late and stay long after their welcome. The city received its nickname, The Cape of Storms, in the fourteen hundreds due to its black, tempestuous winter downpours that begin in June.  

Summer, which arrives two months late in November, is subjected to The Cape Doctor, a vicious South Easter that clears the region of pollution. Despite its positive impacts, the summer gales are notoriously detested by visitors and locals alike. The climate is generally temperate throughout the year, with clear winter days bringing a comfortable chill to the air. Moderate summers are dotted with occasional heat waves, which are more common between December and January. 

Heat waves are best whiled away in air conditioned Cape Town hotels and shopping malls, but when the temperature wanes, the weather is primed for oceanic pastimes. Surfing enthusiasts will adore Cape Town's internationally renowned swells. Extreme surfers take on Bloubergstrand's bone-crunching waves, whilst more sedate water babies congregate at Muisenberg, Long Beach and Scarborough. Extremists dare to combat the Dungeons' infamous breaks. Those who prefer to experience the ocean from beneath the surface scuba dive in a region that is famous for its variety of marine ecosystems. Seal Island off Hout Bay lets you view Cape Fur Seals in their kelp forest habitat. Pyramid Rock lets you get close and personal with several species of shark. Vulcan Rock's reef is home to the occasional great white shark, but divers are more frequently treated to a vast array of marine life in a reef-based landscape. 

  Hiking is a popular local pastime in autumn, making holidays in Cape Town incomplete without the inclusion of a few walking trails. Local second hand bookshops will introduce earlier hiking publications detailing the lesser known trails in the region. Table Mountain is the hiking Mecca of Cape Town, but Silvermine hides some of the most beautiful vistas in the country. An autumnal holiday in Cape Town comes with unusual cloud formations that transform Lion's Head into a fantastical vista. The uncanny autumn skylines form a spectacular backdrop that is best viewed from a mountaintop. Booking into a Cape Town hotel between April and June will give you comfy climates ideal for hiking.   

  The whale watching aficionado generally books into a hotel in Cape Town during August, since this is the most populace month for Southern Right whales, but those who arrive a month early will have the opportunity to view the early arrivals at a more demure pace. July's mid-winter crowds are thinner, which makes Seal Island and Cape Point boat tours easier to book. Southern Rights, Humpbacks and Brydes whales are common sights, but Lady Luck sometimes blesses visitors with rare Orca sightings. Those who prefer their marine creatures to have sharper teeth book into a Cape Town hotel near Simons Town so that they have direct access to the neighborhood's shark cage diving tours.   

Booking into a Cape Town hotel between September and November will give your Cape Town holiday a temperamental climate with spells of showers, tropical heat and glum, grey days. There is no better season for wildlife viewing. The Two Oceans Aquarium houses more than 3000 marine creatures in dramatically lit tanks, each with its own superb marine vista. Touch exhibits, feedings and tank dives let you become more closely acquainted with all things oceanic. To see marine life in its natural habitat, Simons Town's Boulders Beach is home to a massive penguin colony. Hout Bay's Butterfly World lets you enter an environment so magical you will expect to see fairies amongst the fluttering wings of the exotic residents. 

Excursions

Why not enhance your Cape Town holiday experience by adding on an excursion. Our Cape Town excursions have been carefully selected by the product team at Travel Concierge. Booking a Cape Town excursion in advance can offer much better value for money than booking the excursions whilst you are on holiday in Cape Town.

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