The hotel offers 26 beautifully appointed en suite rooms with breathtaking views of False Bay or the majestic Elsies Peak.

This Boutique Hotel & Conference Centre is a sophisticated, contemporary venue.

Hotel & Conference Centre

Fish Hoek, Cape Town, South Africa

Asking price: ZAR 25 million

Key features

Accommodation

Standard Rooms

The 20 Standard rooms, with the magnificent scenery of Elsie’s Peak, boast the following in-room facilities:

Remote-controlled colour flatscreen TV, with satellite options

Individually controlled air conditioning

Coffee and tea-making facilities

Mini-bar

Private bathroom with deluxe shower and individually controlled underfloor heating

Hairdryer

Trouser press

Digital safe

Work desk with modem point

Internet access

Direct-dial telephone, voicemail and wake-up calls

Superior Rooms

The 6 superior rooms offer the additional comforts of:

Uninterrupted views of False Bay

Extra-length beds

Spacious rooms, allowing for cot or roll-away bed

Artwork from local artist Colleen Ross,with her “Fabulous Fish Hoek” collection and specially commissioned watercolours by Ray Potter, lend the hotel a unique character and artistic vibe.

Hotel Services

The hotel offers 24-hour check-in and check-out facilities, an airport shuttle service, and wireless internet hotspots. Laundry and valet services are available.

The hotel has a generator that is operational from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. It is not operational from 10 pm to 6 a.m. in order to consider our quiet neighbourhood. Please note that the generator cannot run for more than 2.5 hours, and during load-shedding times in excess of this, the generator will be turned off at management’s discretion.

Conferencing

The Boutique Hotel & Conference Centre is a sophisticated, contemporary venue for conferences, meetings, and small-scale cocktail events. We offer flexible packages, state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment, top-class catering, and, of course, a superb location.

Conference Room Types

The STRANDLOPER, the largest of our conference rooms, seats 50 cinema-style or 28 boardrooms, classrooms, U-shape or hollow box configuration.

The NAUTILUS seats 24 cinema-style, or 14 boardroom/classroom-style.

The BREAKERS is ideal for use as a breakaway room, smaller meetings or interviews.

Catering options include tea, coffee, fresh fruit juice, flavoured water, Appletiser and Grapetiser, pastries, muffins, homemade biscuits, sweets, fresh fruit kebabs, and a range of lunch choices.

Cocktail events for up to 40 people can be hosted in The Strandloper, and for up to 20 in The Nautilus.

Equipment

The following standard equipment is available:

Data projector and DVD/VCR combo

Automated 2,4m screen

Interactive Panaboard

Cordless keyboard and mouse

Whiteboard

Flipchart

Built-in PA system

Roving microphone

Conferencing phone

Electronic light control

Pens and notepads

Team Building

An area of natural beauty, diverse cultures and unique attractions, the Cape Point Route is the ultimate playground for team building where there is something for everybody, young and old.

Team building Options:

Abseiling & Rock Climbing

Adventure Challenge

Beach Olympics

Beach Olympics / Survivor Combo

Coastal Amazing Race

Location and Recreation

Fish Hoek is perfectly positioned along the Cape Point Tourist Route, which culminates in the spectacular Cape Point Nature Reserve at the ‘Tip of Africa’.

Just a 40-minute drive to the airport, Calders Hotel & Conference Centre is nestled in the cove of one of Cape Town’s most famous family beaches.

Cape Point Route features attractions such as shark cage diving, a snake park, camel rides, surfing lessons, toy museum, penguin and whale watching, horse riding on the beach, fishing charters, the Naval Museum, and hikes in Silvermine Nature Reserve.

Airport transfers, restaurant transfers and other transport is available on request. Secure paid parking is available outside the hotel. Sightseeing tours can be arranged through local operators for your conference group.

Fish Hoek, Cape Town

Fish Hoek (Afrikaans: Vishoek, meaning either Fish Corner or Fish Glen) is a coastal suburb of Cape Town at the eastern end of the Fish Hoek Valley on the False Bay side of the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape, South Africa. Previously a separate municipality, Fish Hoek is now part of the City of Cape Town.

History

Fish Hoek, Vissers Baay or Visch Hoek appears on the earliest maps of the Cape.

Diplomat Edmund Roberts visited Fish Hoek in 1833. He described it as a "poor village" with a whaling industry.

The first grant of Crown land in Fish Hoek was granted to Andries Bruins in 1818. The land was sold several times before being bought by Hester Sophia de Kock in 1883. She was then a spinster of 51 years old. In 1901, late in life, she married a local farmer, one Jacob Isaac de Villiers, who came to live with her on the farm. Although she farmed wheat and vegetables, she started providing accommodation for people who wanted to stay in Fish Hoek, and so became the first local tourist entrepreneur. Having realized that Fish Hoek was becoming popular, she left instructions in her will that the farm was to be surveyed and the land sold as building plots.

After the deaths of Hester and Jacob, the land was sold off, the first sale taking place in 1918. The oldest house on the bay, now named Uitkyk, was bought as a fisherman's cottage in 1918 by the Mossop family of Mossop Leathers, and is still in the Mossop family. There had been a building on that site since the 1690s; a poshuis or post house and a whaling station office is all that is known of its history.

This was the beginning of the town of Fish Hoek. Initially people built holiday cottages, but as there was a good train service to Cape Town a more permanent community soon arose. By 1940 it was big enough to be declared a municipality and was administered by the Town Council until 1996. Hester and Isaac de Villiers, with other members of their family, are buried in the small graveyard next to the NG Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) in Kommetjie Road. The farmhouse on the site of the present Homestead Naval Mess near the railway crossing became a hotel. The original building subsequently burned down in 1947.

After being part of the transitional South Peninsula Municipality from 1996 to 2000, Fish Hoek now falls under the City of Cape Town. Today Fish Hoek is regarded as a suburb of greater Cape Town and lies on the railway line from the central business district of that city to Simon's Town in the south. Until recently, Fish Hoek was a "dry" area - one of the conditions placed by the owner who gave the land for development was that there be no alcohol sold there. Nowadays, alcohol is available in restaurants and bars, but only recently have there been bottle stores allowed.

Geography

Fish Hoek is situated in a bay at the end of a broad, low valley, between two and three kilometres wide, which runs from east to west across the Cape Peninsula from Fish Hoek on the False Bay side to Noordhoek and Kommetjie on the Atlantic side. When sea levels were higher than they are today, the valley used to be a sea passage that separated the Cape Peninsula into northern and southern islands. The valley is generally sandy and the bedrock is Cape granite. In places this is deeply weathered and in the past the rotted granite was mined for pockets of the mineral kaolinite, which is used to make ceramic goods such as hand basins and bath tubs. The valley is famous for 12,000-year-old paleolithic skeletons discovered in a cave (now called Peers' Cave) by Bertie Peers and his father in 1927. Bertie Peers was a lover and explorer of the great outdoors, a fine amateur scientist and a dedicated naturalist but his enthusiasm eventually cost him his life, when he was fatally struck by a puff adder.

It is approximately 40 kilometres by road from Fish Hoek to Cape Town. Fish Hoek is connected to the city by two road routes: Main Road along the False Bay coast, and Ou Kaapse Weg which passes over the Steenberg mountains. Fish Hoek has a railway station which is served by Metrorail's Southern Line service, with journey times of about an hour to Cape Town and 15 minutes to Simon's Town.

Climate

Fish Hoek has a mild mediterranean climate and is spared over hot summer days by the south-easterly wind known locally as "the Cape Doctor". The mountains nearby are famous for large numbers of complex caves in sandstones of the Table Mountain Group. Caves are usually found in limestones and it is not common to find complex cave systems in pure sandstone.

Economy

Fish Hoek has become well known as a tourist resort and as a place where elderly people retire.

Parks and recreation

Fish Hoek beach

The beach is about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) long and quite flat, and the bay is protected from the currents and stronger surf in the rest of False Bay. Swimming is allowed along the entire beach with lifesavers on duty during the summer peak season, and body surfing, boogie boarding, windsurfing and surf ski kayaking are popular. The water is far warmer than the Atlantic Seaboard, averaging between just under 17 °C (63 °F) annually (similar to Northern Mediterranean Waters like Monte Carlo or Nice, and peaking at 24 °C (75 °F) in summer months. Restaurants and children's play areas are situated at the southern end, and a path known as Jager Walk (also spelt Jaeger or Jagger, and known locally as the Cat Walk) runs past rock pools on the southern side of the bay.

Shark spotters are often on duty, especially during the summer tourist season. Despite this, there have been two fatal encounters with swimmers in the bay in recent years, one in November 2004 and one in January 2010. On September 28, 2011, a 44-year-old British man Michael Cohen lost part of his leg after being bitten by a Great White shark, despite the beach being closed and the shark flag flying. The northern parts of the beach are less developed and are used by trek fishermen to launch their boats and clean nets. Seasonal visits from Southern Right Whales occur from June to November each year. There is also a shark net usually deployed in the early mornings.

Education

Schools include Bay Primary, Fish Hoek Primary, Fish Hoek High School, Paul Greyling Primary, Sun Valley Primary, Silvermine Academy, The Rock Academy, Peak Academy International School, iThemba School and EduExcellence private school. Although not in Fish Hoek, many travel to Star of the Sea Convent School, a historic primary school established in 1908.

Media

Fish Hoek and its surrounding suburbs are served by the local False Bay Echo newspaper, originally the Fish Hoek Echo, and the Peoples Post.