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Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel

Gardens · Cape Town · South Africa

The colonnaded gateway of the Mount Nelson Hotel, with cloud pouring over Table Mountain at sunset — The colonnaded gateway of the Mount Nelson Hotel, with cloud pouring over Table Mountain at sunset
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Image courtesy of © Pavel Špindler, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cape Town’s pink grand hotel in its gardens below the mountain, famous for afternoon tea.

The Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, is at 76 Orange Street, Gardens, in its own grounds at the top of the Company’s Garden, with Table Mountain behind. It was painted pink for peace in 1918, at the end of the First World War, in Belmond’s words, and its afternoon tea, served in the historic Lounge, is a Cape Town institution.

Afternoon tea
Gardens

Inside the hotel

Amura
Planet Bar
Afternoon tea at the Mount Nelson
The Red Room

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