From Wikitravel

Camps Bay is one of the most exclusive and expensive suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa.

It has become a tourism hot spot because it offers a great combination of restaurants, bars, amenities, accommodation and a fantastic beach, all very close to each other.

Contents 1 Get in 1.1 By car 1.2 By public transport 2 Get around 3 See 4 Do 5 Buy 6 Eat 7 Drink 8 Sleep 9 Get out

Get in

By car

Follow the coastal road from the Cape Town CBD westwards around Table Mountain or use the beautiful panoramic Chapmans Peak Drive to get there.

By public transport

There is no official public transport yet, so your only choice would be sightseeing tourist busses that stop from time to time to give you the chance to hop off and later on again.

Get around

Camps Bay can easily be experienced by foot. However if you are staying in at the top of Camps Bay, it can take up to an hour to walk back from the beach. There are plenty of taxis available though, and it is one of the few places in Cape Town where a tourist will not necessarily need their own transport.

See

• Beautiful view on the Twelve Apostles, a rock formation of the Table Mountain massive.
• The beachfront with its restaurants and bars and the beach.

Do

• Enjoy the atmosphere in this exclusive town and relax at the beach. Maybe visit some of the restaurants to spoil yourself.
• Do some mountain hiking to get some great views.
• Party at night in one of the bars. Camps Bay is the place to be in Cape Town, if you want to go for a drink.
• Visit the well-known Theatre on the Bay [1]
• Paraglide down from Lions Head or Signal Hill

Buy

A granadilla lolly on the beach on a sweltering hot summers day!

Eat

Camps Bay has a number of restaurants and cafes. In total there are probably about thirty, the majority of which are opposite the beach, stretched along Victoria Road, which is the main road of Camps Bay (runs parallel to the beach front).

Blues is an institution with a very well known brand. The restaurant has been around for a long time, and was repurchased by the original owners in 2005, which should see it return to it's former hights.

Other well known restaurants are Theos, Codfather (for seafood) and Summerville.

For excellent value and huge portions, go to Primi Piatti, on the Llandudno side of Camps Bay.

Drink

Cafe Carpice is very popular with the local trendy crowd, especially on a Sunday night.

Ignite is also a upmarket bar, that is very popular. Thursdays are especially popular.

Baraza (next door to Blues restaurant) is a popular sundowner spot, and is less pretentious than either Caprice or Ignite.

Besides these three bars, just about every restaurant in Camps Bay offers great views, and is a super spot for a drink (or a sundowner as local Capetonians like to call it).

Sleep

Camps Bay offers a wide range of accommodation. There is only one large hotel, but there are a proliferation of B&Bs, guesthouses and self-catering villas and apartments. Most tend to be in the higher end of the market; either four star or five star, although the guesthouses and self-catering options generally offer far better value than equivalent hotels.

• Nox Rentals, Camps Bay. Phone +27-21-424 3353. Nox Rentals rents out luxury apartments and villas in Camps Bay and Clifton, generally at good rates in comparison to comparable hotels. They have a great portfolio of properties, ranging from one bedrooms studios up to top of the range (and priced to match) luxury villas.

Get out

• Visit Cape Town and its attractions
• Do a tour around the Cape Peninsula

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