Calitzdorp Country House

Calitzdorp Country House

Contact Details Calitzdorp Country House +27 (0)44 213 3760 +27 (0)86 692 6966 082 339 1554 info@cchouse.co.za Web: www.cchouse.co.za Our Rating out of 10 Enquire now View Rates

Description

On scenic Route 62, just 4 hours from Cape Town and halfway to Port Elizabeth and the Garden Route, lies Calitzdorp Country House. Serendipitously situated in the heart of the Klein Karoo, this boutique hotel enjoys spectacular views across a fertile valley to the majestic Swartberg Mountains beyond.  

Built in the style of a gentleman’s country residence and extravagantly furnished with antiques, Persian rugs, original art and exquisite fabrics, it boasts every amenity you would expect from a five star guesthouse. 

Picture an elegant dining room and spacious, gracious lounge, individually decorated bedrooms all with private gardens, king-size extra-length beds and voluptuous bathrooms, pool with shady gazebo, and a peaceful, elegant ambience, together making Calitzdorp Country House your first choice stopover to the Garden Route.

Accommodation

Our accommodation includes five luxurious air-conditioned bedrooms, each with its own private patio, garden and fountain, are furnished throughout with Victorian, Cape and French antiques and graced with a fabulous collection of original South- and West African paintings, carvings and bronzes. Original Oregon wood floors provide the perfect mirrored showcase for a collection of Persian rugs, adding to the overall elegance. En suite bathrooms include shower, twin washbasins on hand-selected Italian granite slabs and best of all, outsize baths that invite intimate candle-lit assignations.

The decorator’s theme extends to the elegant and spacious dining and sitting rooms, where languid ceiling fans, hand crafted in the colonial style, produce gentle swirls of cooling air. In hotter conditions, air conditioning throughout the House easily copes with your need for comfort.

Dining and sitting rooms flow seamlessly out to a flagstone-paved courtyard, ideal for fresh morning breakfasts or al fresco dining on hot still summer evenings, or just for lazing, drink in hand, to enjoy the scenery.

The courtyard’s restful water fountain presides over the long view westwards across blue salt-water swimming pool and gazebo, over green vineyards and lush orchards, to the stark and dramatic Swartberg (Black Mountains) beyond.

Throughout the house, sash windows and wood and glass paneled doors in the Karoo style are traditionally covered in the afternoons to keep out the fierce Western Cape sun.

And guests who have made advance bookings for the optional four-course dinner may be invited to visit our well-stocked wine cellar to choose the appropriate accompaniment for their meal.

The cool shade of a verandah which surrounds three sides of the house entices guests to relax on 19th century Cape rusbanke (traditional rawhide-strung farm benches), the House binoculars in hand, to take in the many examples of bird life on the adjacent dam and surrounding trees which scatter Western Cape countryside.

You may then go on to enjoy the spectacular sunsets behind the Swartberg Mountains, and conclude your evening with a crescendo of the incomparable Southern night skies in all their celestial splendour.

Rates

While all our bedrooms are spacious full doubles, some are larger than others and are charged at a slightly higher rate.

Rates vary depending on season and range from R700 to R900 per person sharing per night, including breakfast.

Single supplement from R250 per night.

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