Cape Town is a fantastic place to visit, with amazing scenery that can dazzle every guest, no matter what age, and has a rich urban life that is always on the move, and always shifting.  It’s had a remarkable and complicated history, and there are many tours here that can show you all the places where some of the greatest events of the 20th century happened.  It also has a rich array of cultures, with many languages and many traditions.  It’s possible to be in the midst of all this energy and also enjoy a heavy dose of relaxation and luxury.  The best Cape Town hotels offer an extraordinary sense of place, with elegant style and contemporary design, and shower the guests with a warm hospitality.

We’ve selected some of Cape Town’s finest, so that you can be assured that you’ll have a gorgeous place to retire, and rejuvenate for every part of your own Cape Town adventures.  There are lots of choices for exciting things to do, and it’s also possible to just spend a day watching the people, and getting to know the multiple and constantly shifting rhythms of the place.  The visual art is stunning, and there’s works of all mediums in the many galleries that dot the streets.  One of Cape Town’s more cutting edge of the institutionalized galleries, The AVA, or Association for Visual Arts, is definitely worth the trip.

It’s been in operation since 1971, and is one of the city’s oldest non-profit galleries.  Their exhibitions are always worth checking out, because they revolve once a month, and their focus is on contemporary South African art.  It’s a fabulous way to get to know the country, as well as getting multiple perspectives on Cape Town.  The AVA tends to attract more artists from here, since the exhibitions are artist-driven, and then culled through a curatorial process.  They present all sorts of different kinds of work, from painting to video installation to sculpture.  They also work with artists who are self-taught as well as formally trained, so there are multiple levels of experience and approaches going on here.  It’s a refreshing way of seeing and being in the art world in Cape Town.

Had a great time in New York City. So hugh and so much there it is unbelievable. Overwhelming with the choices of things to do and see. Took a tour one day and that was really nice a bus picked us up at our boutique hotels New York and took us to battery park where we were able to see the Statue of Liberty and get a boat that took us out the island. From there we saw some of the neighborhoods of lower Manhattan – the Village, Soho and the East Village. Wall Street was particularly interesting the history and what happens there today. We made our way up the island to see other site like the Empire State building, Chrysler building, and Rockefeller Plaza were highlights in midtown. Were able to get out and walk around some and experience the city. I really like seeing Grand Central station too. The giant Victorian building housing an enormous train station. Trans here can take you around Manhattan and the boroughs, upstate, to CT and all over the country. I couldn’t believe how big this building is and how many people pass through it every day. Simply amazing to me never having seen anything like that before in person. After that we were taken over to Broadway and saw the theater district and all the marquise touting the latest shows and we saw Time Square too. The cross roads of the world is right! Unbelievable how many people and all the signs and lights, sensory overload for sure!!! The city was amazing and crowded the streets everywhere were filled with people seemingly very busy and in a hurry to get somewhere. The buildings and all the different styles of ornamentation and stuff was cool to see to. We didn’t get enough time to see everything, but I suppose that is normal for anyone visiting NYC so much to see and do how could you do it all even if you lived there!