Mountain Manor

A lovely place, but rather hard to find. Only one small signpost if you happened to be on the right road, and then nothing at the actual entrance to the farm. Very peaceful with gorgeous views over the valley. Delicious breakfast, served earlier than usual on our request by extremely friendly staff. We were upgraded from the room I booked, as we were the only guests that night.

We loved our time at Tulbagh Mountain Manor. We came for our 50th Anniversary and it was a beautiful place to rest, sit by the pool, delicious breakfast, and absolutely beautiful location! We felt like family. Mirna was so kind, gave us great recommendations for wine tasting, olive tasting, sparkling wine tasting nearby, and restaurant for dinner. Lovely stay! Thank you Mirna!

Needs updating and some maintenance

This is a beautiful place to stay, but a little out of the way for most travelers. It's approximately 90 minutes' drive from Cape Town and in the opposite direction of the Garden Route, which is the route most travelers tend to follow. But it's a perfect get-away if you live in Cape Town and want to spend a long weekend in a quiet and beautiful area. Hiking, biking, winetasting... We enjoyed a delicious breakfast at the manor, but you need to go to the town of Tulbagh (12 kms away) for other meals. The town itself is very small with a few houses of historical significance.

Awful stay in a potentially gorgeous place. Avoid! It started on arrival. The charming staff member showed us to our room, (mentioning that the owner was away for a few days - the entirety of our stay) - we'd booked the "Honeymoon suite" a separate room, half on stilts with stunning views. Having showed it to us, I asked how to work the air conditioning to be told "oh, I don't know why that doesn't work!" Clearly it hadn't worked for some time.It was 32'c that day and it was sweltering hot for 2 Brit's. I explained that we wouldn't be able to sleep without A/C and she just shrugged and said she'd try to contact the owner. A while later my wife went to find her and asked if they'd another room that did have working A/C, she did so we moved rooms, to one that was inferior to what we'd booked but it had A/C.what we didn't realise initially was it didn't have any curtains over the double doors that had glass panels in. That meant there was zero privacy in the room from when anyone,such as the gardener was walking by, plus of course at sunrise the light came flooding in.There was evidence that there had been a blind or curtains there once,presumably it had broken - some time ago - and they just couldn't be bothered to fix or replace it. There were 3 dogs on site - we LOVE dogs - but they were left out all night(presumably because the owner was away?!!)not our problem, except at 4am I was suddenly awoken to hear frantic scratching at the door!There's loads more but I'm out of space