Beach House Guest House

If you want to fall out of bed and onto the beach, the Beach House delivers. Just 600m from Hout Bay Beach, this nine-bedroom, all en-suite guest house has an easy beach-and-style feel, with mountain and ocean views, an outdoor pool, a sun terrace and a full English breakfast to set you up for the day.

It is relaxed, sociable and ideally placed for sandy mornings and sunset walks, which makes it a popular pick for groups and beach-focused trips.

The distinction from CUBE is one of scale and standing. At nine bedrooms it is roughly double the size of CUBE's five suites, so it feels noticeably larger and less intimate, and its 4.4 rating sits below CUBE's near-perfect, award-winning level, without the design pedigree, guest smartphone or personal travel-planning concierge.