Travel and Vacation

You’ve booked your flights, organised a rental car, and secured coveted tickets to the matches. Everything’s in place for your upcoming trip to Cape Town – except your hotel accommodation. If you’re travelling to South Africa for the highly anticipated World Cup soccer event in 2010, there’s not much time left to book your hotel accommodation. The good news is that Cape Town offers a vast array of luxury hotel establishments, all of which are gearing up to host a global clientele when the games roll around next year.

Nonetheless, it’s a wise idea to secure your 2010 Cape Town hotel accommodation in advance. It’s likely that the majority of venues will be fully booked by the time the event takes place, which means that you could find yourself “couch surfing” in the coastal city if you don’t secure your accommodation soon!

Find out more about the types of 2010 World Cup accommodation venues available in Cape Town, and find the ideal establishment for your holiday needs.

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With its beautiful beaches, magnificent mountain and breathtaking scenery, Cape Town is ideal for luxury holidays and indulgent getaways. Travellers from across the globe flock to the coastal city to enjoy luxury holidays in Cape Town, which are made all the more special by the opulent hotels located throughout the city.

If you’re travelling to Cape Town, ensure that you make the most of your holiday by securing accommodation at one of its leading establishments. Then, plan your holiday itinerary to make the most of the attractions and recreational facilities on offer in the city. No matter what time of year you choose to travel to the Cape, you’re sure to enjoy your time in this vibrant city.

Below, find out more about luxury hotel accommodation in Cape Town, and read tips on planning the ultimate luxury holidays in Cape Town.

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Cape Town offers an abundance of top-rated accommodation venues, situated in sought-after areas throughout the city. From coastal chalets to vineyard retreats, there are accommodation establishments to suit every budget and travel style. Of course, one of the best ways to experience the diverse and lively city of Cape Town is by staying in a luxury hotel in the heart of it. Boutique hotel accommodation in Cape Town’s City Bowl is popular among travellers, and both businesspeople and leisure visitors choose to stay in these opulent establishments.

There are plenty of upmarket hotels in the Cape Town city centre, offering a range of exclusive facilities to guests. City centre accommodation also provides quick and easy access to some of Cape Town’s top tourist attractions, and a superb springboard from which to explore the greater Cape Town region. You’ll experience some of the Cape’s finest dining, drinking and entertainment establishments in the city centre, as well as a host of trendy boutiques and shops. The City Bowl also features many curio stands and craft markets, a number of large retail outlets, and a quick access to the renowned V&A Waterfront.

Book your Cape Town hotel accommodation online today, or read on to find out more about the upmarket hotel chains in the Cape Town city centre.

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Measuring 8,288km2 Ngorongoro conservation area comprises Ngorongoro crater, Olduvai Gorge, and huge expanses of highland plains, scrub bush, water falls and mountain forests in Tanzania. The area was originally part of the Serengeti National Park during its first gazzettment by the British in 1951 but continued conflict between the Maasai who were still living in the park and the park authorities over land use led to the creation of the Ngorongoro conservation area in 1959 where both wildlife and human co-exist beautifully.

The area is part of the larger Serengeti ecosystem, adjoining the Serengeti National Park to the north-west, flanked by the southern Serengeti plains which extend to the north into unprotected Loliondo division.

The main attraction in this area is without a doubt the “>Ngorongoro crater world’s largest volcanic caldera 2000ft deep with a 260km2 floor whose formation was as a result of a giant volcano explosion causing collapse on itself over 3million years ago.

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Hotels are meant to be your home away from home. Often, though, especially with the advent of boutique and luxury hotels, they are even more than that, they become experiences in and of themselves.

From art-themed, to book themed, to green and clean to haute cuisine and high fashion, hotels have clung onto every chic and hip meme out there, developing them into posh design concepts which easily attract the curious and smart from all corners of the world to lay down their heads and their dollars for a night’s sleep.

Of course, you’ve got your standard beachside paradises, fully equipped with peace invoking reflecting pools, shabby-chic villas with mosquito netting romantically slung around the beds and organic chocolate covered coffee beans on the pillows; and you’ve got your upscale, metropolitan affairs, architecturally zeitgeisty structures that double as upstanding lessons on high class and elegance as well as those staid, institutional hotels which never go out of style.

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