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Built in 1903 in the Cape Dutch Colonial style, Villa Belmonte is an exquisite Five Star boutique hotel situated in Oranjezicht, a quiet, exclusive residential suburb framed against the backdrop of the world-famous Table Mountain, with magnificent vistas across the port city of Cape Town stretching towards Table Bay. Set in beautiful gardens dominated by a large, heated swimming pool with water features, the Villa is a tranquil oasis, yet is finely located for visits to all areas of the Cape Peninsula and wine lands and is in walking distance to the city centre and close to the waterfront.
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 Gourmet
Food & Wine Events
Our Gourmet Food & Wine events continue to be such great successes - Havana Hills, Buitenverwachting (twice), Springfield (twice), Saxenburg, De Toren, Boschendal, Linton Park, Hamilton Russell & Southern Right (twice), Rupert & Rothschild, La Motte (twice), Veenwouden, Constantia Uitsig, Fairview, Morgenhof (twice), Hartenberg (twice), Klein Constantia (twice), Steenberg, Rudera (twice), Gosset & Domaine Frapin, Cape Point, Raats (twice), KWV, Delaire (3 times), Plaisir de Merle, Lanzerac, Muratie, Paul Cluver, Thabani, Rickety Bridge, Beyerskloof, De Wetshof, Kanu, Landskroon, Eikendal,
Simonsig.
Keep a watch on our website for the date for our next event! |
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 Villa
Belmonte celebrates 20 years
Villa Belmonte,
a boutique hotel in the heart of one of Cape Town's
most desirable suburbs, has been open for 20 years.
And, having survived the ups and downs of the
tourism business in South Africa in that time,
MD Cliff Jacobs says he and his wife, Tabea, would
do it all again.
Jacobs, a
graduate of the Johannesburg Hotel School, is one of
South Africa's most experienced hoteliers and is
known for his commitment to the hotel industry. He
and his Swiss-born, Tabea, opened Villa Belmonte on
January 2, 1992, as an upmarket guesthouse in what
was a Victorian-era mansion in Belmont Avenue,
Oranjezicht. In the two decades since then they have
constantly updated the property which is now a
five-star full-service luxury hotel which attracts
leisure and business travellers from all over the
world.
Jacobs says:
"What an amazing ride we have had and still are
having! There have been many ups and downs, but,
looking back I would still have done the same: find
a beautiful period house in a great location,
somehow find the money to finance it, carefully
reconstruct it, renovate it and start business. "We
took it from an upmarket guesthouse to a five-star
boutique hotel in 10 years. I congratulate Tabea, my
lovely wife, without whose extraordinary effort
Villa Belmonte would not have seen the light of
day." We should have written a book or made a movie
about it. Maybe we still will do it!"
The editor of
Hotel & Restaurant, Andrew Moth, first met Cliff and
Tabea Jacobs when they ran the Santos Hotel in
Mossel Bay in the late 1980s. "We have stayed in
touch since then," Moth said, "and nobody deserves
success and accolades more than Cliff and Tabea.
They thrive on every aspect of the industry and
nothing has dimmed their passion for service
excellence." Jacobs said today that while business
had been tough since 2009, "things are starting to
get better."
Report from Andrew Moth, editor of Hotel &
Restaurant, 4 January 2012. |
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