Mandela Rhodes Place Hotel & Spa

This is a stunning apartment hotel and the rooms really are of a high quality. It is a perfect home for someone wanting something a little different to a conventional hotel whilst living in the centre of the city. The hotel has a 50 ft rooftop swimming pool with sun loungers and a new gym opening in September 2007. There is a business centre and parking facilities.
Exterior: 3 buildings converted into one, this is one of the tallest buildings in the city centre.
Lobby: The lobby is unusual in that it has 3 entrances from different streets surrounding the building. It is a vast lobby with an 8 floor atrium dominated by huge star shaped inflatables hanging down from the bright glass ceiling. The smokey grey tiled floor, leather sofas and black concierge desk give the ground floor lobby a modern stylish look. The lobby shares space with some excellent retail units including Cape Town's first urban winery as well as a bar and a cafe.

The establishment offers apartments with Table Mountain and Cape Town cityscape views. The apartments have a kitchen and a lounge and come with a private bathroom with a shower/bathtub and a hairdryer and offer a double bed. They are equipped with a telephone, DSTV, a radio, WLAN Internet access and a safe. The kitchen has a fridge, a cooker, a microwave, tea and coffee making facilities and a washing machine. Furthermore, an ironing set and individually regulated air conditioning and heating are provided in all accommodation as standard.

Synergy is the hotel's restaurant and there are also 3 independent restaurants in the lobby of the hotel. Room service is available 0700 - 2200 and the hotel can also organise grocery or supermarket shopping to be left in the apartment kitchen for guest arrival.

The spa epitomises a cosmopolitan space in which to unwind and recharge with treatments designed to revitalise, awaken and revive mind, body and soul. Facilities include an outdoor swimming pool with sun loungers and sports enthusiasts may enjoy a work-out in the high-tech gym. Massage treatments are also on offer to guests (charges apply). Golf enthusiasts can play a round at the nearby Metropolitan Golf Club, just 2.5 km away.

Undercover parking is available at an additional daily rate.

Guests arriving from Cape Town International Airport should follow the N2 signs to Cape Town. Stay on the N2 into the city centre (do not take any exit ramp). Continue straight along the N1 until it becomes Buitengracht (at the CTICC). Continue along Buitengracht until Wale Street becomes visible on the left. Turn left into Wale Street. Drive down Wale Street until the 4th set of traffic lights. At these lights, turn left into Burg Street. Parking access is off Burg Street on the immediate right.