TRAVEL BLOG December 11th, 2021 - CAPE TOWN

 


12/11/21- Cape Town reminds me of Australia in many ways, especially with all the British/Australian accents. It’s a nice reprieve from Tanzania as it feels much less hectic and more peaceful.

We sleep in with a full night’s sleep on one of the most comfortable beds we’ve had so far on this trip. Our host makes us breakfast with scrambled eggs, toast, fruit and French-pressed coffee and it’s very well made. My expectations are already surpassed.


We check out at 10am and take an UBER to our next hotel, Cellars-Hohenort, which we used our Hyatt points for. This hotel was once a farm vineyard and still has the vines (which they outsource) and a beautiful garden surrounding the property. 

We stroll around for an hour as we wait for our room to be ready and when we check in we're amazed at how large it is. They upgrade us to their suite with a pool view, separate living room and complimentary min-bar. There’s so much detail that we spend ten minutes taking it all in with pictures. It definitely has paid off being Hyatt reward members. When a hotel has its own map, that’s pretty cool! The hotel also lends us a converter as we didn't expect Cape Town not to have a UK or even a European outlet like the rest of Africa.

We take an UBER to Buitenwerwachting winery and the place is pact outside. With limited seating, we enjoy the inside room to ourselves with five tastings each and buy two bottles. The total price is $30 US, how is that even possible? After a few hours, we retreat to our hotel and order room service. During the call we get disconnected and within thirty seconds there’s a knock on our door to confirm our order. WOW! Service here is top notch! We feel like royalty right now and it doesn’t even compute.

On another note, our flight may have been cancelled by Qatar to get back to the states and currently on hold to chat with American Airlines. They gave us an option to rebook with British Airways but have to leave the day before. With limited options, we accept the deal. I’m glad we came to Cape Town three days early as we're losing a day and a half on the backend. Hey, whatever works!

Originally we had three flights to return home with, but this new option is only two flights and saves us about seven hours of flight time, all at no additional cost. Oh the joys of traveling through COVID.

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