Your adventure will begin with a four night stay at the elegant Steenberg Hotel. This boutique hotel offers splendid views of sprawling vineyards and manicured lawns. Enjoy traditional Cape cuisine, wine tasting, a cellar tour and, off course, golfing at two exceptional courses – the Steenberg Golf Course and the Royal Cape Golf course. Next you will be off to the renowned Fancourt Hotel and Country Club. Play on one of their four exquisite courses, enjoy a complimentary spa treatment and relax in breathtaking surrounds. You may choose to end this adventure here or, alternatively, you can add an additional two night’s stay at the pristine Kwandwe Private Game Reserve. Here, you can unwind on twice-daily game drives, enjoy birdwatching and tuck into sumptuous Pan African menus.
Steenberg Golf Course – perfect for an all-round golfing experience
Royal Cape Golf Course – established in 1885
Fancourt Hotel and Country Club Estate
Kwandwe Private Game Reserve – home to the Big Five and endangered blue crane
As conducted from Cape Town International Airport to George Airport
Day 01 - 04: Cape Town
Upon your arrival at Cape Town International Airport, you will be met by a CC Africa Representative who will hand over your Personalized Travel Journal to you and assist you with the collection of your rental vehicle. Using the directions given, you will make your way to Steenberg Hotel.
This boutique hotel is a haven of serenity with air-conditioned, en-suite rooms which is tastefully furnished with exquisite antiques and all rooms overlook the vineyards or manicured gardens. Room features include: telephone, fully stocked mini-bar, satellite TV, heated towel rails, electronic safe, tea/coffee making facilities, hairdryer, alarm clocks, radio channels and bath robes. Gourmet cuisine features traditional Cape and continental dishes. The original winery provides the setting for the Restaurant at Steenberg. Amenities on offer include an on-site hairstylist and beauty consultant and a gymnasium. There is a swimming pool for warm sunny days and scenic walks on the estate. Well-marked walks in the area take the rambler through spectacular forests, over ravines and through beautiful botanical gardens. False Bay and Chapman's Peak are a few minutes away and offer scenic panoramic views. A drive to Cape Point Nature Reserve and Hout Bay also offer diverse and splendid scenery.
Spend four nights at the Steenberg Hotel. Accommodation is in a standard luxury room. Your stay is on a bed and breakfast basis including: complimentary chauffer driven services to local restaurants and shopping centres within a 5km radius of the hotel, complimentary shuttle service by road to the V&A Waterfront, complimentary wine tasting & cellar tour at Steenberg Winery, complimentary Port & Sherry in all guest lounges, complimentary use of computer with Internet access in Barn Lounge and complimentary daily newspaper in all lounges.
Day 02:
Today a round of golf has will be arranged at the Royal Cape Golf Course, South Africa’s oldest club, established in Cape Town in 1885. The club has a prestigious championship course that is always in good condition. It has slick greens, which present a real challenge. It is a flat parkland layout and is an ideal introduction to golf in the Cape. It is in typical Cape Flats country and is therefore exposed to the wind. On a benign day, Royal Cape can be forgiving, but in a stiff breeze it can be an absorbing and often very difficult challenge, although the ferocity of the wind is tempered slightly by the many trees that line the fairways.
Day 03:
You are at leisure today to explore the beauty that Cape Town has to offer.
Day 04:
Another round of golf will be arranged at Steenberg Golf Coursetoday. Steenberg is another exclusive estate layout built around a vineyard and overlooked by mountains and forests. Set in the Constantia Winelands outside Cape Town, the course features large areas of waste bunkers that line the fairways. Driving needs to be straight, but good approach shots will be rewarded on the true, receptive greens.
Day 05 - 07: George
Today you will take in some spectacular scenery as you drive along the world famous Garden Route to the town of George.
Set in picturesque landscaped surrounds, the Fancourt Hotel and Country Club (a member of the Leading Hotels of the World fraternity), boasts undeniable luxury and attention-to-detail service. Guests are truly spoilt for choice, when it comes to dining, as the hotel has six superb restaurants which offer a variety of mouth-watering menus. An ultra-indulgent spa provides world-class treatments and, as a renowned golfing establishment, Fancourt boasts four exquisite year-round courses. For those who are not golfing inclined, the hotel provides four tennis courts, a gym, volleyball court, an outdoor and indoor swimming pool, nature trails and birdwatching.
Spend three nights at Fancourt Hotel & Country Club Estate. Accommodation is in standard room. Your stay is on a bed and breakfast basis, including dinner to the value of ZAR165.00 per person in one of Fancourt's restaurants each evening (excl: beverages & gratuities), for the golfer - unlimited golf per night stay on the Outeniqua, Bramble Hill or Montagu Course and for the non-golfer there is one health and beauty voucher to the value of ZAR350.00 per night stay.
Bramble Hill is Fancourt Estate’s fourth golf course. Designed by the Gary Player Design Company, the course is set to attract golfers from a wide audience. The idea of Bramble Hill is to offer a Fancourt golfing experience to golfers, who for various reasons have not been able to play the Estate’s existing three courses (The Links, Montagu or Outeniqua). For a start, the course does not have the cost factor of the other courses, which has large appeal to many of our local golfers along the Garden Route, from Mossel Bay to Plettenberg Bay. It also does not have the difficulty or intimidation factor, but is still a good challenge. It is a course for the whole family to enjoy, no matter what their level of ability. This is a parkland golf course, with the odd links style feature to it. Many of the holes offer fantastic views of the estate and the surrounding mountains. It is also a much shorter course, which comes as good news for the less competent player, however the condition of the fairways and greens are still very much of a Fancourt standard.
The Montagu layout is currently the jewel of the Fancourt crown and for the last few years has been rated as one of the top two courses in South Africa. This is a serenely beautiful parkland course. It is cleverly designed, picturesque, and presents an enjoyable challenge to all levels of golfers. This superb golf course features immaculate conditioning.
The Outeniqua golf course, named after the mountain range that runs along the Garden Route coast, has aesthetically pleasing design features, such as rivulets and colourful gardens. Like its neighbour, the Montagu, it is in magnificent condition year round with rare attention paid to detail.
Day 08: Depart
This morning after breakfast and once you have checked out of your hotel, you will make your way to George Airport where you will return your rental vehicle and check in for your flight.
End of services
GUEST DELIGHT:
Stay 4 nights and only pay for 3 at Steenberg Hotel.
Dinner to the value of ZAR165.00 per person in one of Fancourt's restaurants each evening (excl: beverages & gratuities), for the golfer - unlimited golf per night stay on the Outeniqua, Bramble Hill or Montagu Course and for the non-golfer there is one health and beauty voucher to the value of ZAR350.00 per night stay at Fancourt.
OPTIONAL SAFARI ADD-ON:
As conducted from George Airport to Port Elizabeth Airport.
Day 08 – 09: Kwandwe Private Game Reserve
Drive east towards Port Elizabeth for your Big Five Safari. The Eastern Cape is rich in history, culture and diversity, and offers the travellers a unique wildlife experience in a malaria-free environment.
Ecca Lodge is innovative, stylish and intimate; it embodies a "funk-meets-futuristic-farmhouse" ambience. Emblazoned with giant Warhol-like prints, retro light fittings and shades of olive, rust and burnt orange, it's witty, welcoming and consummately appointed. Situated on rolling slopes overlooking a beautiful spekboom, acacia and aloe-studded valley with a backdrop of steep shale cliffs, the views are breathtaking, particularly when the spekboom trees are in flower - covered in gorgeous pink flowers. Six suites of inventive architecture feature walls of wood-panelling interspersed with mesh-covered stone gabion, and pagoda-style corrugated iron roofs. The suites are extremely spacious, with luxuriously proportioned living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms furnished in a style complementary to the main guest areas. Glass doors slide back leaving gauze doors to admit cooling breezes and the fragrances of the bushveld. Wraparound wooden decks lead from the sitting rooms and bedrooms, and feature an outdoor shower with galvanised bath base and stone gabion wall. The original trees have been allowed to grow through the decks in line with our commitment to treading lightly on the earth. Tall clay pots cluster on the decks, featuring cacti and succulents indigenous to Kwandwe. A gorgeous rim-flow lap pool is lined with lapas and teak loungers, and the nearby interpretive centre provides hours of entertainment for children of all ages. Ecca Lodge is an approximate 15-minute drive from Heatherton Towers, which features a picturesque crafts gallery stocking a wide range of gifts, including Xhosa craftworks.
Great Fish River Lodge is set along the aloe-studded banks of the Great Fish River and consists of nine suites with private plunge pools and spacious thatched game viewing decks. The Great Fish River Lodge is stylishly furnished in Frontier Settler style, integrating local African culture with colonial settler history. Elegant thatched stone and glass suites feature floor-to-ceiling doors which fold back to reveal uninterrupted wilderness vistas. Guest areas have a large fireplace with massive stone chimney, and a soaring thatched roof with imposing chandeliers. Sophisticated, glass-fronted sitting and dining areas boast expansive viewing decks with breathtaking river views. Delicious Pan-African cuisine is served on the private decks, in the candlelit dining room, or enjoyed in the boma (outdoor dining area). Kwandwe is renowned for its spectacular bush banqueting in surprise settings. Heatherton Towers is the main reception building, which is situated 40 minutes from the lodge. It is, in fact, a Frontier War-era fortified homestead, complete with dramatic gun turrets and private chapel.
Spend two nights at Kwandwe Ecca or Great Fish River Lodge. Accommodation is in a suite. Your stay is on a fully inclusive basis including: three meals, soft drinks, house wines, local brand spirits and beers, teas and coffees, scheduled safari activities, refreshments on game drives, emergency medical evacuation insurance and laundry.
Day 10: Depart
This morning after your final game drive and breakfast you will depart Kwandwe Private Game Reserve and drive to the Port Elizabeth Airport where you will return your rental vehicle and check in for your onward flight.
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