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Gapyear.com recommended hostel in South Africa

City: Cape Town, South Africa
Name: Ashanti Travel Centre and Lodge
Address: 11 Hof Street, Gardens, 8001,
Cape Town, South Africa

About Ashanti
Ashanti Lodge and Travel Centre is one of the leading backpackers' in Africa, in the continent's most beautiful city. A great first stop if you're new to Africa, it's safe, friendly and the perfect place to organise your activities and onward travel. 

Ashanti boasts...

- Amazing views of Table Mountain
- Swimming pool
- Lively bar
- Cafe
- Communal kitchen
- Satellite TV
- Shaded garden and barbecue area 
- Full travel centre
- Free airport pickup (between 8.30am & 4pm)

Good one for the girlies...

This hostel looks after the ladies by offering female-only dorms and making safety top priority. Just state that you'd like a bed in a girls-only room when you fill in the enquiry form below.


Rates
Prices start at R90 for a dorm room - around £7.50. However, there are lots of different options.

Gapyear.com says...
You can only hear so many rave reviews of a place before you have to take notice. Click here >>  to see how many times it came up on the thread 'Best hostel ever stayed in'. You might also like to click here >> to search the rest of the boards and find out what others thought. This place was voted the best hostel in Africa though, so you shouldn't take too much more convincing.

Ashanti says...
'The place is definitely one of the most consistently good backpackers in South Africa - not to mention the biggest and most happening."*

Housed in a glorious building, nestled below Table Mountain, the lodge has fantastic views of Table Mountain in all its glory. So grab something wet and splash yourself onto their wooden sundeck with its panoramic view or float on your back in the pool and find out if the Table has legs.The every-busy Kumasi Café serves all things decadent so grab a meal or another wet something with which to adorn yourself. Alternatively head to the beanbag balcony in the front garden and chill out to the slow scrunch of a thousand polystyrene balls.

*As quoted in the 7th edition of Coast to Coast - the Backpackers Guide to Southern Africa

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