Calitzdorp Country House | Guest Houses Calitzdorp

Five star Calitzdorp Country House is only 4 hours from Cape Town and halfway to Port Elizabeth and the Garden Route. Built in the style of a gentleman’s country residence, the House is serendipitously situated in the little town of Calitzdorp on scenic Route 62, at the heart of the Klein Karoo. It offers spectacular views across a lush green valley to the majestic Swartberg Mountains beyond. Extravagantly furnished with antiques, Persian rugs and original art, it boasts every amenity you would expect from a five-star guesthouse including air conditioning throughout. Add an elegant dining room, spacious lounge, five individually decorated luxurious bedrooms, voluptuous bathrooms with baths spacious enough for a romantic couple, pool with shady gazebo, and a quiet, elegant ambiance, and Calitzdorp Country House has to be the ideal destination for visitors to the region. Five luxurious air-conditioned bedrooms, each with its own private patio, garden and fountain, are furnished throughout with Victorian, Cape and French antiques and graced with a fabulous collection of original South- and West African paintings, carvings and bronzes

Original Oregon wood floors provide the perfect mirrored showcase for a collection of Persian rugs, adding to the overall elegance. En suite bathrooms include shower, twin washbasins on hand-selected Italian granite slabs and best of all, outsize baths that invite intimate candle-lit assignations. The decorator’s theme extends to the elegant and spacious dining and sitting rooms, where languid ceiling fans, hand crafted in the colonial style, produce gentle swirls of cooling air. In hotter conditions, air conditioning throughout the House easily copes with your need for comfort. Dining and sitting rooms flow seamlessly out to a flagstone-paved courtyard, ideal for fresh morning breakfasts or al fresco dining on hot still summer evenings, or just for lazing, drink in hand, to enjoy the scenery. The courtyard’s restful water fountain presides over the long view westwards across blue salt-water swimming pool and gazebo, over green vineyards and lush orchards, to the stark and dramatic Swartberg (Black Mountains) beyond.

Throughout the house, sash windows and wood and glass panelled doors in the Karoo style are traditionally covered in the afternoons to keep out the fierce sun. And guests who have made advance bookings for the optional four-course, silver and crystal service dinner may be invited to visit our well-stocked wine cellar to choose the appropriate accompaniment for their meal. The cool shade of a veranda which surrounds three sides of the house entices you to relax on 19th century Cape rusbanke (traditional rawhide-strung farm benches), the House binoculars in hand, to take in the many examples of bird life on the adjacent dam and surrounding trees. You may then go on to enjoy the spectacular sunsets behind the Swartberg Mountains, and conclude your evening with a crescendo of incomparable Southern night skies in all their celestial splendour. The eclectic furnishing of the sitting room provides guests with a pleasing and surprisingly successful combination of modern, Cape antique and Victorian furniture, Persian rugs, German 1836 walnut piano and original art, with Clarice Cliff china on the coffee table.

Address
Plot 1827 Besemkop,
Calitz Steet
Calitzdorp
6660

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Directions
If you’re travelling west on Route 62 from Oudtshoorn, towards Cape Town, look out for Calitz Street, at the old cemetery(your right) in the center of Calitzdorp. Turn right here (north – the signpost says ‘Groenfontein’) and drive for exactly two km along Calitz Street. Calitzdorp Country House is here on your left.

If you’re travelling east on Route 62 from Ladismith, away from Cape Town, look out for Calitz Street, at the old cemetery (your left) in the center of Calitzdorp. Turn left here (north – the signpost says ‘Groenfontein’) and drive for exactly two km along Calitz Street. Calitzdorp Country House is here on your left.

Check-in time is from 15h00. We look forward to your arrival.