Shaanti Lodge
Car in Cape Town

We would like extend a warm welcome to our Bed & Breakfast / Guest house in the heart of Gatesville.

You will be welcomed into an Eastern Flavored Lounge and will be able to experience an African styled Dining Room. We offer comfortable, newly furnished rooms to relax and unwind. We cater for private functions for approximately 50 guests with a menu that suits your preference. While you are here, you may enjoy outdoor adventure tours with locals who know and love Cape Town. Anniversaries, Birthdays, Business Functions or any special occasions) Comfortable stay in one of our luxurious rooms to make you feel at home. Shaanti Lodge offers Bed & Breakfast at its main lodge with a Self Catering Facility in the adjacent building immediately accessible from our premises. Shaanti Lodge also offers various Self Catering facilities throughout the Cape for your convenience. The site of the majestic Table Mountain is as welcoming today as it was to the first European setlers in With colonisation, the Cape of Good Hope established a tradition of hospitality leading weary explorers and sailors to rename it The Tavern of the Seas. Cape Town, with its extended seafront, underground mall and modern skyscrapers hold itself dear to its origins. Explore the many fascinating museums and historical buildings reflecting the cultures shaping the city and the province it serves. Cape Town boasts a vast range of shopping styles and opportunities, from the haggling be tween stallholders and shoppers at the Grand Parade and Greenmarket Square fleamarkets, to the smooth, hassle-free self-service at countless sophisticated and stylish malls. Many scenic wanders are within a day’s drive of the city centre. At midday the noon gun booms out over Cape Town, startling the pigeons into a flurry of wings in Greenmarket Square, and old Cape Town residents glance at their watches to check the time. It’s a ritual that has lost its meaning in a world of digital watches and radio time-signals, but it is very much part of the changeless traditions of Cape Town, South Africa’s oldest and most beautiful city. Today there are no rock-breaking convicts in the harbour to sigh with relief and straighten their aching backs at the noon-day lunch signal. But Cape Town without the noon gun would be unthinkable. Time was vitally important to the sea captains of old who called in at Table Bay in the days of the three-masted sailing ships. They relied on such time checks in order to adjust the chronometers necessary for navigation. For the early European navigators to the Cape, there were no such services at all, of course. They sailed into Table Bay after months at sea, in desperate need of provisions such as fresh water and meat, and wood for their galley stores. These little people of the Cape traded cattle and sheep for iron knives, cooking pots and beads. After the establishment of the refreshment station at the Cape in 1652, voyagers also stocked up on supplies of Cape fruit and vegetables.