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The designers clearly had a lot of fun with this place, just a short stroll from the Old Biscuit Mill. One dorm is Barbie-doll pink; a romantic double has a swinging bed made from a suspended fishing boat; another is styled after an intensive care unit! The building's wraparound balcony overlooks the Salt River roundabout (which is noisy during the day).


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1. Greatmore Studios

0.33 MILES

This pioneer of the Woodstock art scene provides studio space for local artists and visiting overseas artists, with the idea of providing skills transfer…

2. Bijou

0.48 MILES

There are studio spaces for artists and craftspeople in this fabulous art-deco building, once a cinema, including that of blacksmith Conrad Hicks. Some of…

3. Cape Town Science Centre

0.73 MILES

Occupying a rare example of the work of modernist architect Max Policansky, this is a great place to bring kids for attractions such as the giant…

4. I Art Woodstock

0.84 MILES

The sketchy grid of streets off Albert Rd is a canvas for some amazing street art, much of it created during a collaborative project between street…

5. Heart of Cape Town Museum

0.91 MILES

Booking a two-hour guided tour is the only way you can see the very theatre in Groote Schuur Hospital where history was made in 1967 when Dr Christiaan…

6. Trafalgar Park

1.07 MILES

This park, which is slated for redevelopment by the city and has a good public swimming pool (closed at the time of research), contains the remains of the…

7. Two Rivers Urban Park

1.11 MILES

Covering some 240 hectares around the confluence of the Liesbeek and Black Rivers, this new park is one of the city's largest, with the potential to…

8. Rhodes Memorial

1.65 MILES

Partly modelled on the arch at London’s Hyde Park Corner, this monumental granite memorial stands on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, at a spot where…