7 days · 6 nights
The Classic Cape Week
The city, the peninsula, the Winelands and the whale coast, in one region.
The Cape, shown to you by the people who live in it.
Private, guided trips around Cape Town and the Western Cape for families and couples. One guide, one vehicle, one itinerary built around you. You get the version of this city that takes locals years to work out.
We do one region and we do it properly. Trips based in Cape Town and reaching out to the peninsula, the Winelands and the whale coast, and every one is drawn up from scratch around the people travelling: how fast they want to move, what they want to eat, and which things they would rather skip. If you are going on to a safari afterwards, we run the Cape leg and hand you over cleanly at the airport.
What a guided trip actually buys you
Someone who reads the mountain
Table Mountain makes its own weather. Your guide watches the week's forecast and moves the cableway to the morning it will work, which is the single most useful thing anyone can do with your time in Cape Town.
Nobody in your party drives
So nobody navigates, nobody misses the view on Chapman's Peak, and nobody has to decide whether they are fit to drive after a long lunch in Stellenbosch. Your guide does not taste.
Doors that are usually shut
Forty years in the wine industry buys you cellar visits with the winemaker rather than a counter and a coach party. Twenty years on this peninsula buys you the skipper who will go out on a morning nobody else is running, and a table at the place that was full six weeks ago.
A plan that moves
The itinerary is written before you land and reordered daily once you are here, around the wind, the swell and how much anyone actually feels like doing on day nine.
Sample itineraries
All sample trips
8 days · 7 nights
A Family Week in the Cape
Penguins, a canopy tour, a boat and a beach, with the driving kept short.
4 days · 3 nights
Four Days in Cape Town
The city, the mountain and the peninsula, with a spare day for the weather.
Where we go
All regions
Cape Town
A working city wedged between a mountain and two oceans.
4 to 6 nights
The Cape Peninsula
Forty miles of mountain and ocean, ending at a lighthouse.
0 to 2 nights
The Cape Winelands
Three hundred years of vines, an hour from the airport.
2 to 3 nights
The Whale Coast and Overberg
Whales below the cliff path, and a forest gorge on the way there.
1 to 3 nights
What our guests say
In-depth knowledge of wine and the Western Cape, a warm welcome from the start, and will make you feel at home while you explore the many vineyards South Africa has to offer. Truly top glass.
Nicholas Arcaro
Facebook recommendation ·
Day tour · the Cape Winelands
Left for Top Glass Tours, the Cape Town day-tour company Angie has run for twenty years, before Cape Compass existed.
Extremely knowledgeable, friendly and reliable. Don't see how you could do better!
Robert Springer
Facebook recommendation ·
Day tour · Cape Town and the Winelands
Left for Top Glass Tours, the Cape Town day-tour company Angie has run for twenty years, before Cape Compass existed.
I will be honest: I spent four months worrying about this trip and about ninety minutes actually worrying once we were there. Angie was inside the terminal before we had cleared passport control, the car seats were already fitted, and she knew both our children's names and ages before she met them. By day three my husband had stopped checking the news and by day six I had stopped counting bags. The thing I did not expect was how much thought had gone into the pacing. There was a day in the middle with nothing on it at all, which I would never have planned myself and which saved the rest of the week. The penguins were on day two rather than day six, which in hindsight was obviously right. And the zip line thing above Elgin is the only part of any holiday my eleven-year-old has ever described as the best day of his life.
The Hartley family
Greenwich, Connecticut ·
8 days · Cape Town, the peninsula and the whale coast
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From the journal
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Planning ·
The peninsula day, in the right order
Almost every visitor drives the Cape Peninsula the same way round, at the same time, and meets every coach in the Western Cape at Cape Point. There is no reason to, and the day is transformed by running it backwards.
Planning ·
When to visit Cape Town, month by month
High summer is not the best month here, and winter is a great deal better than its reputation. A month-by-month guide to the Cape, with the trade-offs stated plainly.
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