Western Cape
Birkenhead House
Birkenhead House is a beautiful boutique hotel perched atop a cliff overlooking Walker Bay in Hermanus. The artistically designed hotel mixes beach house style with quirky comfort. Having only 11 suites, the hotel succeeds in providing an intimate and relaxed atmosphere for its guests.
The individually designed suites have light colours and classic antique furnishings. Each room has a large double bed with high quality linens and attached private modern bathrooms. The rooms are equipped with air conditioning, digital TV, DVD player, mini bar, and have Wi-Fi internet access and some rooms have balconies with sea views.
There is an excellent gourmet restaurant serving delicious gourmet dishes with a mix of traditional African, French, Italian and Asian cuisine as well as local Cape peninsula seafood.
Facilities at the hotel include an attractive lounge with grand fireplace, bar and sun deck with infinity pool looking out on the bay. There is also a spa offering a range massage, aromatherapy and reflexology treatments, and a well stocked gym.
Facilities
Private bathrooms, indoor and outdoor showers, restaurant, lounge, bar, swimming pool, spa, gym, massage treatment, fireplace, free WiFi, TV, library.
Local Wildlife
Walkers Bay and the sea off Hermanaus are superb for watching southern right whales between May and October.
Optional Activities
Whale watching, tours of Hermanus, hiking, mountain biking and yoga are all also available.
Alan Godwin
Area Specialist
For luxury whale watching without needing to get out of bed, this hotel is the one to choose.
If you have any questions regarding our South Africa tours, please feel free to contact me on +44 (0)1803 866965
We have just received the feedback form from you for our recent trip to South Africa which I will fill out shortly but I also wanted to thank you personally for organising us such a fantastic trip. The sheer variety of scenery and activities was amazing and the accommodation was uniformly excellent. We enjoyed good weather for our first few days in Cape Town allowing us get the best from Table Mountain as well as travel down to the Cape of Good Hope. A storm front did give a couple of wet days but this had little impact on our wine tasting in Franschhoek. In Hermanus we were fortunate to spot an early southern right whale as well as a humpback. We absolutely loved Montusi mountain lodge – what a view! We were also glad we visited the battlefields and the drive to Fugitive’s Drift lodge was quite enjoyable although I will never complain about potholes in the UK again. The suites at Tanda Tula were amazing and well beyond anything we have previously experienced on safari. The wildlife viewing for mammals was excellent with great sightings of lions and rhino in particular. Once again, many thanks and it’s now time for us to start our diet as we ate and drank rather too well.
