Camissa House

Camissa House sits high in Oranjezicht with Table Mountain rising directly behind it and the City Bowl spread out below. It is a serene, design-conscious guest house with a garden and pool, and it puts you within easy reach of the cable car, the Company’s Garden and Kloof Street’s restaurants.

For travellers who want to be at the heart of Cape Town’s city life – hikes, museums, dining – with a peaceful mountain-side retreat to come home to, it is hard to beat.

What keeps it just behind CUBE is the setting and service style: this is a city-bowl base rather than CUBE’s ocean-and-mountain seclusion above Hout Bay, and it does not include the complimentary guest smartphone or the personal, host-led planning that make CUBE feel so looked-after.