Cathbert Country Inn
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| Rooms: | 8: 2 standard luxury rooms, 4 luxury suites, 1 executive suite, 1 x 2-bedroomed luxury suite, all with king-size/twin beds, en-suite bath and shower, air-con. 1 luxury cottage with queen/double beds. |
| Price: | R605 - R975 pp sharing. Single supplement: +50%.This incl B&B. (4-Course) Dinner extra. Rate increase from 1 Nov 2009. Please enquire at info@cathbert.co.za
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| Meals: | Full breakfast included in room rate. Set menu 4-course dinner, R299 pp. Fully-equipped kitchen in cottage. |
| Directions: | From CT take N1, take exit 47, turn right at end of ramp, over 4-way stop, left at next road towards Franschhoek. Pass Backsberg Wine Estate. Just before the T-junction, turn right onto private tar road, following Cathbert Country Inn signs for 2.5km. |
Klapmuts/Simondium Road (Off R45), entrance on “Vrede en Lust” Wine Estate, Simondium, Franschhoek, Cape Winelands, Western Cape
Tel: (0)21-874-1366
Cell: (0)83-3093-675
Fax: (0)21-874-3918
If warm hosting, gourmet food and eye-watering natural beauty in the heart of the winelands doesn’t sound like your sort of thing then turn away now, because Cathbert Country Inn is all of these things. Aubrey stomped cheerily out to greet me in a pair of wellies, having just put the finishing touches to large-scale renovations on the suites, in which doors and windows all swapped places and doubled in size.....
.... Now you don’t have to so much as turn your head to see fabulous views over the vineyards, farmland and the dam that so immaculately mirrors the high Simonsberg Mountains. Lynne (more elegantly shod) showed me around the rooms which the owners, Peter and Tisha Cunliffe, recently redecorated in sophisticated French country style: distressed wood, natural fabrics, scatter cushions placed just so and delicate shades of grey. We wandered down a poplar-lined lane, scattering Egyptian geese, to the newly-converted cottage, a sweet, secluded place with a kitchen, braai and raised pool. Half an hour later Aubrey had swapped his wellies for a chef’s hat and was ably assisting the in-house chef Max conjure up the gourmet creations that are one of Cathbert’s major draw cards – in fact, guests generally eschew Franschhoek’s offerings in favour of their local, often organic, always home-made culinary compositions. The best thing? That you can spend the day hiking, touring, wine-tasting, or perhaps just drinking up the peace and a local vintage by the pool... and not have to get in the car to find a great meal at the end of it all.
