This luxury 5-star hotel offers guests a combination of refined Indian hospitality and an authentic Cape Town experience. It has the Jiva Spa offering a range of signature treatments, yoga and meditation and there is a fitness centre comprising of a fully equipped Technogym, heated indoor pool, two saunas and male and female changing areas. A magnificent hotel in the heart of South Africa's mother city.
Exterior: Occupying two historic buildings, it retains the architecture and many meticulously restored interior features of the original South African Reserve Bank and the old BOE building - formerly the Temple Chambers, built in 1890. Seventeen new storeys house suites, guestrooms and residences with magnificent views of the Mother City and the iconic Table Mountain.
Lobby: The restored ground floor of the Reserve Bank is now the hotel lobby, with the original marble columns, skylight and anatomically correct lion medallions pressed into the ceilings, remains a triumph to the fastidiousness of James Morris, who designed the building in 1929. There is a bar in the lobby area as well as a cigar lounge.
At the foot of the beautiful Company Gardens, next to Parliament and in the heart of the city, the Taj hotel is exactly between Table Mountain and the ever popular V&A Waterfront; both are a 10 minute drive away. 20 kms to the nearest airport (capetown international) 1 km to the nearest station (cape town station) 5 minute walk to the nearest bus stop 1 km to the nearest fair site (cticc) 7 km to the nearest beach