Bantry Bay hotels

List of accommodation options in Bantry Bay (an upmarket area on Cape Town's Atlantic Seaboard between Clifton and Sea Point). To check hotel prices, use the hotel price comparison tool on the right.

List of Bantry hotels

A directory/list of the official contact details of hotels & guest houses in Bantry Bay (email address, website, phone number and fax number). If you would like your establishment listed below, email cheapflights@southafrica.to.

Enchanted Guest House

12 Craigrownie Rd
Bantry Bay
Cape Town
Western Cape
South Africa

info@enchanted.co.za

www.enchanted.co.za

Tel: 021 439 5566
Fax: 021 439 1880

Ambassador Hotel

34 Victoria Road,
Bantry Bay
Cape Town
Western Cape
South Africa

reservations@ambassador.co.za

www.ambassador.co.za

Tel: 021 439 6170
Fax: 021 439 6336

Bantry Beach Luxury Suites	Craigrownie Road, Bantry Bay Cape Town Western Cape South Africa	www.bantrybeach.co.za	Tel: 021 434 0211 Fax: 021 433 0027
Ellerman Villa	180 Kloof Road, Bantry Bay Cape Town Western Cape South Africa	info@ellerman.co.za www.ellerman.co.za	Tel: 021 430 3200 Fax: 021 430 3215
Les Cascades Guest House	48 de Wet Rd Bantry Bay Cape Town Western Cape South Africa	fontain@mweb.co.za www.lescascades.co.za	Tel: 021 434 5209 Fax: 021 439 4206
O on Kloof	92 Kloof Road Bantry Bay Cape Town Western Cape 8002 South Africa	info@oonkloof.co.za www.oonkloof.co.za	Tel: 021 439 2081 Fax: 021 439 8832
President Hotel Protea	4 Alexander Road Bantry Bay Cape Town Western Cape 8001 South Africa	sales@presidenthotel.co.za www.proteahotels.com/protea-hotel-president.html	Tel: 021 434 8111 Fax: 021 434 9991
Villa Sunshine Guest House	34 Victoria Road, Bantry Bay Cape Town Western Cape South Africa	contact@villasunshine.co.za www.villasunshine.co.za	Tel: 021 439 8224 Fax: 021 439 8219

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Botany Bay

In 1803 a botantical garden was established by Dr Friedrich Ludwig Liesching – the first president of the South African Medical Society - mostly to cultivate medicinal herbs but also rare botanical specimens. Latrobe, Secretary of the Moravian Church in England sent to organise the mission stations at Mamre and Genadendal reports a visit to Liesching (and his friend Ziegler) in his "Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815 and 1816" as follows: "...by a continuation of the road, dug deep into the declivity of the mountain, we reached the villa of Dr Liesching and Mr Ziegler for dinner. This is a romantic spot, with a great variety of garden ground, laid in terraces down a very rugged kloof and containing a large collection of scarce plants and flowering shrubs. At the bottom of the grounds the rocks form a grotto in which is a cold bath."

Even though the botanical garden was later abandoned, the name Botany Bay was used for the estate until it was purchased in 1882 by a man of Irish descent, named O’Callaghan. O'Callaghan renamed it "Bantry Bay" after an inlet on the southwest coast of Ireland. Perhaps, what helped O'Callaghan make up his mind were the connotations with Botany Bay in Australia – a penal colony where from 1788 thousands of convicts were sent from Britain.

Traces of the original garden terraces can still be seen between Kloof and Victoria Roads.