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Esperanza Guest House

Oranjezicht Cape Town - South Africa

Email Esperanza Guest House Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com

Our rooms are sumptuously appointed, to match the polished teak floors and pressed ceilings that hark back to legacy of luxury of this historic neighbourhood.

Classic ball-and-claw bathtubs and draping chandeliers add a classy touch. Above all we've strived to provide you with an excellent value Cape Town Guesthouse.

A small splash pool and sundeck add to your relaxation and we can recommend handpicked tours and tourist services that will pick you up.
Secure parking, laundry and a full English breakfast also come as part of the service.
Early booking is recommended during the busy season, we look forward to hosting you at Esperanza Guesthouse in Cape Town.

Experanza Guest House Accommodation

Esperanza Room:
Esperanza has just six rooms to ensure your stay with us is exclusive and private. The rooms are spacious, airy and washed in light. The neighbourhood is a quiet suburban one, so that your stay feels as comfortable and peaceful as your own home.

Polished wooden floors give you a natural feeling underfoot, while above you the pressed-ceilings remind you of the luxurious Victorian era in which the house was built. Now over 100 years old, it was completely restored in 1996, and has been lovingly maintained since.

En-suite bathrooms accompany every room, some of them grand affairs with enormous opaque windows, and antique ball-and-claw bathtubs. Classic wooden furniture adds to the warm feeling of our rooms.

The rooms, along with the rest of the guesthouse, are tastefully decorated with colonial or African themes, and include televisions, a dresser, wardrobes and mini safe.

Esperanza Services:
Our guests enjoy the kind of gracious hospitality most people thought was extinct. Guests mingle for evening drinks in our comfortable African-themed lounge, helping themselves to sundowners. The adjoining dining room is splashed in morning sun, where you can enjoy a complementary gourmet breakfast on demand.
From here you can plan your day, with the help of our partner tour companies, or simply make your arrangements using our extensive resource of brochures. Laundry services are provided, rooms are serviced daily.

Esperanza Facilities:
We’ve tried to make Esperanza as homely and relaxed as possible, when you arrive you’ll soon feel as if you’re staying with friends.
Though you may prefer not to mingle, our lounge and dining room is an extension of your room with comfy sofas, soft music and reading material on the Cape.

To make you feel at home we’ve provided a public minibar in which you may help yourself to drinks at leisure. With such lovely weather during the summer months you may prefer to sip on a G&T beside our small splash pool, or sit on the shaded balcony and write postcards.

Behind the guesthouse is an enclosed parking area for guaranteed security. Here you’ll also find our own personal pub where guests often join us for an evening drink. We also provide storage for suitcases, and free wifi comes as standard, though we suggest you bring your own netbook or ipad.

Centrally situated in the suburb of Oranjezicht, the guest house sits beneath Table Mountain and is less than 10 minutes drive from Cape Town city centre.
It is also within easy reach of Camps Bay and the beach. A shopping mall, banks, movie house and wide variety of restaurants are all found nearby and access to the main arterial routes of the city is also effortless.
Esperanza also benefits from plenty of open space in its environs, including a park and reservoir, affording clear views and a sense of spaciousness right in the heart of Cape Town.
A gym and swimming pool are both located within a kilometre of the guest house. Airport transfers and taxis can also be arranged.

Esperanza Cape Town:
Cape Town is a cosmopolitan and modern city at the southern tip of the Africa. Its perfect location around the sweeping Table Bay and stunning backdrop of Table Mountain have made it the region's most popular tourist destination.
The city centre is a harmonious blend of old and new architectural styles, and a potpourri of the many ethnic groups that have forged this city's 300 year old history.
For the visitor the options for shopping, sight-seeing, entertainment and relaxation are endless, with a well developed tourist infra-structure to complement the many lovely natural sites. The typically laid-back attitude of the locals adds to the leisure atmosphere which appeals so much to tourists.

South of Cape is a 54km - long peninsula which culminates in the dramatic headland at Cape Point. This so-called 'tip of Africa' is reached by driving the cliff-hugging Chapman's Peak road, reckoned to be one of the world's most spectacular.

Along the way you can stop to admire the glamour of Clifton beach in the Riviera-like Camps Bay, or stop off for lunch in the quaint 'hidden' fishing town of Hout Bay, before returning via the Naval Base at Simonstown or sampling the waves at Muizenberg.

Presiding over Cape Town is the world famous Table Mountain, a 1000m-high plateau which offers fantastic views of the entire hinterland. There are numerous hiking trails to the summit or a busy cable car for the less energetic.

Cape Town was founded as a victualling station for the Dutch East India Company and to this day remains as a busy port. In recent years the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront basin has been development into an exciting precinct with plenty of entertainment, dining to suit all budgets and an excellent variety of shopping.
The large tasteful mall, hotels and accommodation, quayside yachts and colourful aquarium make the area a popular draw card.

Boat cruises also depart from here, most popularly to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.The city centre is a history lesson in the unique Cape Dutch architecture, coupled with typical colonial relics and lovely gardens.

The colouful Bo Kaap suburb is a legacy of the city’s large Cape Malay community, while the heady mix of intriguing native African culture and European influence can be sampled at the numerous theatres, music venues, cultural shows and exhibitions that make Cape Town such as happening city.

The ornate City Hall and centuries-old Castle fort are two legacies of the Cape Town’s past, with the story of the country’s more tumultuous recent past preserved in some excellent museums.
The Cape Town area has arguably some of the best beaches in Southern Africa and Capetonians are usually to be found sunning themselves on a hot summers day.

The Atlantic coast beaches of Clifton, Camps Bay and Llandudno are popular venues overlooked by multimillion Rand mansions and apartments.

On the Indian Ocean side are the warm water beaches at Muizenberg, Fish Hoek and Boulders Beach in Simonstown where sun worshippers share the beach with the only land-based penguin breeding colony in Africa.The best views of the Mountain are found on the northern side of Table bay with the crashing waves of.

Esperanza Hosts:
Owner and guesthouse manager Mark Blagus welcomes you to Esperanza, along with Gloria and Janet who are local Cape women who keep the guests entertained with their jovial hospitality and service. Together we ensure that someone is always on hand to help with luggage, room servicing, breakfast on demand and travel arrangements.

Email Esperanza Guest House Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com