Country accommodation in the heart of the Winelands

The Alphen Country House Hotel, Constantia is a National Monument offering more than just accommodation. The historic Manor House offers Winelands and country accommodation in the heart of a former Wine Estate.

Centrally situated in the Peninsula and at the gateway of the Constantia Valley and Wine Route, this Constantia accommodation is ideal for business or leisure. Our Cape Town Boutique Hotel is close to Cape Town CBD and the Cape Town International airport. Old fashioned values combine with contemporary efficiency. A spectacular setting amidst the dappled shade of ancient oaks offers both tranquility and easy access to the many splendors of the Cape.

Where squirrels scamper and birds sing, where the gleaming patina of antique furniture reflects gleaming tales of a bygone era. Alphen - where warm hospitality has reigned supreme since the 18th century.

Accommodation

All with two En-suite Bathrooms. All have Air-Conditioning

Facilities

Conferences

Conferences, Seminars, Meetings, Workshops, Launches
and Presentations

Full Day Conference Package
Includes:
• Tea/coffee/muffins on arrival
• Mid-morning: tea /coffee / biscuits
• Lunch - two course Set Menu or Finger Lunch
• Late afternoon: tea /coffee/scones
• Standard conference equipment
• Mineral water
• Mints

Half Day Conference Package
Includes:
• Tea/coffee/muffins on arrival
• Mid-morning or late afternoon: tea/coffee/biscuits
• Lunch - two course Set Menu or Finger Lunch
• Standard conference equipment
• Mineral water
• Mints

Standard Equipment
Includes:
• TV and VCR
• Overhead projector
• Screen
• 1 x Flipchart (extra flipcharts at an additional cost)
• 1 x Whiteboard and Whiteboard Markers

Dining

Manor House Restaurant. A fine dining a la carte restaurant. A sherry in front of the fire; lunch with the sun’s rays shining through tall teak windows, or dinner by romantic candlelight; meals to remember accompanied by fine Cape wines. Manor House Restaurant comprises three rooms that can also be used for private functions:
The gracious Agterkamer - seating 45 people . The Heerenkamer - seating 35 people . The intimate Cullinan Room - seating 10 people.
Manor House Restaurant is open to the public daily for breakfast. Restaurant is closed on Sunday and Monday Evening for dinner.

Our popular pub, “The Boer ‘n Brit” is also open to the public and offers lunches and suppers all year round with a varied and reasonably priced menu. The pub offers both a shady terrace under the oak trees for hot summer days, as well as a cosy log fire in the winter months.

Activities

ACTIVITIES IN & AROUND CAPE TOWN:

Cape Town City Centre, the Waterfront and Table Mountain Cableway - (20 mins)

Restaurants
Many well-known restaurants often in historic situations can be enjoyed in the Constantia valley. The Manor House Restaurant or the Boer 'n Brit in the Jonkershuis are just two.

The Constantia Virgin Active Club
Situated within walking distance of the hotel on part of the old Alphen Estate. Vouchers are available on request from reception.

The Constantia Village Shopping Centre -
There is an excellent variety of shops, services and eating places in the centre, including Alphen Cellars where fine wines and spirits may be purchased. (5 mins)

Whales, Seals and Penguins -
Whales can be seen particularly in Fish Hoek or Hout Bay areas. (20 mins) Enjoy a boat trip to Seal Island in Hout Bay (20 mins) and visit the penguins at Boulders Beach in Simonstown (25 mins).

Rondevlei Bird Sanctuary -
Near Zeekoeivlei, the sanctuary, a wetland and part of the Costal Park, is home to 225 species of birds. (20 mins)

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens -
They are internationally renowned as one of the world's foremost botanical gardens. (10 mins).

The Alphen Hiking Trail -
Leading from the southern boundary of the estate, winds along the Diep River into Cecelia Forest on the slopes of the mountains of the Cape Peninsula National Park. There are numerous cycling routes in the area.

The Cape Peninsula National Park, i
Incorporating Table Mountain and Cape Point, where two oceans meet, is easily accessible either by walking, jogging, or driving from the hotel (5 mins to closest gateway, Cape Point 30 mins)

The Constantia Wine Route -
This incorporates Groot Constantia, Klein Constantia, Buitenverwachting, Constantia Uitsig and Steenberg farms.(10 mins)

Groot Constantia -
This is a National Monument open to the public. It is the hallmark of gracious Cape Dutch architecture, originally owned by Governor Simon van der Stel and later by Hendrick Cloete, who was responsible for the house and the beautiful wine cellar in its present form. Hendrick Cloete was the ancestor of the present owners of Alphen. (10 mins)

Kalk Bay -
An atmospheric fishing village with art and craft shops. (15 mins)

Simonstown -
An historic naval town (25 mins)

Directions

DIRECTIONS COMING FROM CAPE TOWN(± 25 minutes)
• Take the M3 out of town towards Muizenberg on either Eastern Boulevard or De Waal Drive
• At Hospital Bend take the M3 to Muizenberg fork
• Follow the M3 , passed UCT for about 9km
• Take Exit 14 off to the M41to Constantia Main Road
• At the stop sign turn left and go under the bridge
• Turn right at the set of traffic lights into Alphen Drive
• Keep to the left of Alphen Drive Road until you see the Hotel on your left

DIRECTIONS COMING FROM BLOUBERSTRAND(± 40 minutes)
• Take the M14 until you get to the R27
• Take the R27 towards Table Bay/City
• Take the N2 to City and take Rhodes Drive (M3) turn off to Muizenberg
• Follow the M3 , passed UCT for about 9km
• Take Exit 14 off to the M41to Constantia Main Road
• At the stop sign turn left and go under the bridge
• Turn right at the set of traffic lights into Alphen Drive
• Keep to the left of Alphen Drive Road until you see the Hotel on your left

DIRECTIONS COMING FROM HOUT BAY(± 20 minutes)
• Take the Hout Bay Road until you get to Constantia Nek road
• Take the Constantia turn off
• Follow the road past Constantia Village
• Past the Sports Club traffic lights
• At the second set of traffic lights is Alphen Drive
• Stick to the left of Alphen Drive Road until you see a green sign saying Alphen

Area Information

Cape Town is southern Africa's most beautiful, most romantic and most visited city. Indeed, few urban centres anywhere can match its setting along the mountainous Cape Peninsula spine, which slides into the Atlantic Ocean. By far the most striking - and famous - of its sights is Table Mountain , frequently shrouded by clouds, and rearing up from the middle of the city.

More than a scenic backdrop, Table Mountain is the solid core of Cape Town, dividing the city into distinct zones with public gardens, wilderness, forests, hiking routes, vineyards and desirable residential areas trailing down its lower slopes. Standing on the tabletop, you can look north for a giddy view of the city centre, its docks lined with matchbox ships. Looking west, beyond the mountainous Twelve Apostles, the drop is sheer and your eye will sweep across Africa's priciest real estate, clinging to the slopes along the chilly but spectacularly beautiful Atlantic seaboard. Turning south, the mountainsides are forested and several historic vineyards and the marvellous Botanical Gardens creep up the lower slopes. Beyond the oak-lined suburbs of Newlands and Constantia lies the warmer False Bay seaboard, which curves around towards Cape Point.

To appreciate Cape Town you need to spend time outdoors, as Capetonians do, hiking, picnicking or sunbathing, or often choosing mountain bikes in preference to cars and turning adventure activities into an obsession. Sailboarders from around the world head for Table Bay for some of the world's best windsurfing, and the brave (or unhinged) jump off Lion's Head and paraglide down close to the Clifton beachfront. But the city offers sedate pleasures as well, along its hundreds of paths and 150km of beaches.

Cape Town's rich urban texture is immediately apparent in its diverse architecture: an indigenous Cape Dutch style, rooted in the Netherlands, finds its apotheosis in the Constantia wine estates, which were themselves brought to new heights by French refugees in the seventeenth century; Muslim slaves, freed in the nineteenth century, added their minarets to the skyline; and the English, who invaded and freed these slaves, introduced Georgian and Victorian buildings. In the tightly packed terraces of twentieth-century Bo-Kaap and the tenements of District Six, coloured descendants of slaves evolved a unique brand of jazz, which is still played in the Cape Flats and some trendy city-centre clubs.