City views!
From Pepper Tree’s rooftop, up a few steps from an outdoor dining area, there’s a plunge pool on a deck. By day, armed with a glass of crisp white Sauvignon Blanc take a dip, sit cross-legged and watch the city live. Reads its signs. The Aerial Cableway will be ferrying visitors up Table Mountain – but not if that famous cloud ‘cloth’ boils over like vapour from dry ice. Locals will be hanging out in coffee shops sipping their first double espresso of the day. Note: join them. In the harbour, over the heads of distant cranes, you may time the gradual docking of a luxury ocean liner. Ah but they’re only here for 48 hours. By night your view changes to an undulating matrix of lights that define the contours of the bay. The bright busyness of De Waterkant’s clubs, restaurants, coffee shops and fashion outlets are minutes from your front door. Staying here in winter? There’s a fireplace and one particularly tempting leather armchair that suggests you might take a warm throw, curl up and shut out the world for a while. Or stay home and hold a dinner party with gourmet dishes and fresh ingredients sourced from the famous delis around you.
