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Reviews of The Roundhouse

4 out of 5
The Roundhouse
61 Ingang Street, De Kelders, Western Cape

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 29 out of 55 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 15 out of 55 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 8 out of 55 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 1 out of 55 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 55 reviews" "

8.6/10

Cleanliness

8.4/10

Staff & service

10/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The owners are super friendly and helpful, the place is fantastic, has everything you might need, we loved it!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Derek

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Lee

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Perfect for Shark Diving
Great place. Clean, friendly and good facilities in the room. Local area has no restaurants or bars so I would recommend a car if you plan to go out, but location is perfect for anyone who has booked shark diving. Just a 5 minute drive to the port. Although no restaurant can be easily overcome with a self prepared meal in the kitchen eaten the balcony enjoying the views over the bay. Great stay. Thanks.

10/10 Excellent

Thea

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fresh air sea
Fresh air clean sea. Loved the skulpies beach close by. Geniunely friendly staff. Delicious breakfast.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2018
Response from Dave on 13 Mar 2018
Thank you for your lovely review :-) We hope to see you again soon ;-)

6/10 Okay

Vuyolwethu

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We had an excellent stay. The hosts were super friendly and helpful and the house was stunning.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Barry

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Terrible stay
We arrived after a long drive and were informed our reservation was for the next night. I confirmed that our reservation was indeed for Dec. 14.. We were taken to our cottage which was hot, stuffy and absolutely alive with mosquitoes. We couldn't open the windows as there were no screens and had to fumigate the place with bug spray. Didn't sleep at all. There was no air conditioning and the fans just blew the hot air around. To top it off, this is listed as a Bed and a breakfast on hotels.com and their own website and road signs. They didn't serve breakfast! Only had instant coffee in the room, that was it!

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Ocean and cape views
The host, Dave, was very helpful and friendly. There were more common facilities than we expected (hot tub, ping pong, pool table, etc) and this was a very nice value.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
This was exactly what was promised.
Loved every second from the hot tub on the roof to the amazing views of the ocean.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Relaxation!
Pleasant stay. Friendly and accomodating staff. Phone number listed on hotels.com was incorrect, but I was able to find the correct one. Although there was no answer to confirm late arrival. Fortunately the late arrival worked fine. There was a note on the door with cell numbers and ringing the bell summoned Dave for checkin. Jacuzzi is great. Small pool good for a quick dip. And you can brag about swimming 100 laps in record time without getting tired!

8/10 Good

Avtar, OTTAWA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice area for R & R
Pleasant stay, relaxation, visiting Cape l'anglhaus. Nice trails for hiking.

10/10 Excellent

Matthew, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Roundhouse thumbs up
Friendly staff, great rooms and picturesque location

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Graeme, Tewantin Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Comfortable and good position.
A comfortable place to stay. Limited parking. Good, peaceful neighbourhood. Walking distance to Pub & Grill restaurant which was good. Did Great white shark cage diving tour and saw many whales. A very enjoyable stay.

10/10 Excellent

Roy, Tel Aviv

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Diving withsharks
Visited with our 2 kids and stayed the night in the cottage. Lovely rooms and great service, let us stay late to take shower after the shark dive. All in all great place and great service.

10/10 Excellent

Nigel, Knysna (SA) and Darlington (UK)

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Shark Cage Dive perfect venue.
Perfect location just down the road from the Shark Cage Diving venue, as well as walking distance from a beautiful cove for whale watching. Locate pub on the estate providing reasonable 'pub grub' and a short drive into Gaansbaai for more sophisticated restaurants. The owner/landlady of The Roundhouse was fantastic; she was friendly, knowledgeable and a perfect host.

10/10 Excellent

arizona travele, Cave Creek Arizona

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Absolutely beautiful!
Gorgeous location and Beautiful rooms. We were given the 3 bedroom cottage and I wasn't expecting that. It was clean, and beautiful. Would recommend anyone to stay here! We also used the hot tub at the main house and watched beautiful sunsets! Amazing place to stay!

8/10 Good

Megan, Zürich

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice, clean room
Facilities all looked great, helpful staff but only stayed for one night, early check out before breakfast for shark cage diving

10/10 Excellent

Matt, USA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing place!
A beautiful place, in a great location, especially if you're going shark diving in the morning. I couldn't say a bad thing about my stay, if I wanted to. Highly recommended!

10/10 Excellent

Boris, Virginia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Place in awesome village
The hotel owner was very friendly and told us a lot about the area and things to do. The room was very nice, spacious bathroom with bathtub, etc. There was a jacuzzi on the top deck which overlooks the ocean, awesome. There were several options for breakfast off the menu and it was very tasty! Overall, would definitely go again, the village felt non-touristy and the guesthouse was great.

10/10 Excellent

Hannah, sydney, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Everything we needed and more!
We had such a good experience at The Roundhouse B&B. We booked it the morning we were going to stay there as somewhere to rest our head before going shark diving the next morning. The owner was very accommodating, especially as we arrived late, he recommended a beautiful place to have dinner as well as leaving the roof top jacuzzi on until late so we could go in after dinner. They also allowed us to come back after shark diving the next day to shower before checking out. The bed was comfy and we were upgraded to a 1 bedroom unit that had a little kitchen. The room was very clean and cosy. Couldn't have asked for anything more!

8/10 Good

Mr Friday, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fully equipped cottage
Great stay, especially for families. Nice jacuzzi!

10/10 Excellent

Hugh McPherson, Denver, CO

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
cottage was great. Hotels.com voids you on reward
Great spot. Very friendly. The cottage is a great deal and very clean. 3 bedrooms. I am not sure why people worry about the view. The hottub has a great view. HOTELS.COM DOES NOT GIVE YOU REWARD NIGHTS for this booking. I guess that disclaimer was not obvious when I booked it.

8/10 Good

Wanderer, Gauteng, RSA

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good view towards the sea
My room was at the back. Perhaps my experience would have been different did I have the benefit of a room with a view. Wi-Fi available. DSTV on BBC Entertainment was struggling with maintaining the signal --- it was at the time of some of the worst storms in the Cape though.

10/10 Excellent

JB, Manchester

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent value for money.
We stayed in the cottage across the road rather than the rounhouse itself. It slept 6 but even for 3 of us it was very good value. The beds were huge. Great service throughout. You need a car for restaurants but that is the only downside.

10/10 Excellent

Choosy, Abu Dhabi

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Gansbaii grandeur!
This is the nearest thing to a hotel we found in/ near Gansbaii online. Totally exceeded our expectations - great base!

8/10 Good

Richard, Devon, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Interesting situation, friendly people
This b&b has some rooms in the Roundhouse itself, and others in adjacent cottages. We had a two-bedroomed cottage, less than 100 m distant. Your (Expedia) website indicates that it has a restaurant. This is correct only in so far as breakfast is provided - to describe that as a restaurant is misleading. The owner did, however, make some recommendations of places to eat in the evening, and we had a very good meal on the night we were there.

8/10 Good

Carla, Florida

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Warm staff, cold jacuzzi
We did a shark diving trip the next morning so we didn't eat breakfast. They let us leave our laundry and it was cleaned and ironed on our return from shark diving at a great rate. They also let us shower late in the afternoon on the day of our checkout. This was very much appreciated after we spent the morning on a boat and in the salt water. The only disappointment was the cold jacuzzi. I can't imagine anyone getting in it. It was warm bath water at best. We actually booked the place just to sit on the deck in the jacuzzi that evening because of the beautiful view.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great base for Shark Cage Diving in Gaansbai
A very nice B&B conveniently located for access to the Shark Cage Diving activities in Gaansbai. Staff were friendly at check-in, and breakfast was good. Room was well equipped with a large TV, sofas and very comfy bed. The hot tub on the roof has great views of the sunset over the ocean.

10/10 Excellent

Brian, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely romantic hotel!!!
We went as a couple and booked the cheaper room and it was great!! The pictures of the room on the hotel's website don't really deliver...the room was bigger than we thought it would be!!! Great room and living space!! We also had a great breakfast...if you have the pancakes choice...do order only 2 as they bring 3 x person and they are huge!!!! The view from the top of the hotel is super!!!! The booklet in the room explaining the info is very good also for restaurants...even thought one evening we went to the pub one and wasn't mad for their food!! The only thing we weren't mad about were the curtains in the room..no black outs!! So at 6:30/7am the light may awaken you!!! I would reccomend this hotel to anyone that wants piece and romance and wants to enjoy the surranding nature!!!

8/10 Good

Kerstin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Love the Whales!
The lighthouse building was gorgeous and we loved the jacuzzi. I was a little surprised that we weren't actually staying inside the lighthouse building, but in a separate three bedroom cottage. The cottage was awesome, but I had fallen in love with the lighthouse structure on the website. Best place to find whales on the shore!

10/10 Excellent

Karen, Calgary, AB, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great views, great stay!
Great views, comfortable place, friendly owners and staff. Had a great time at the Roundhouse!

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Roundhouse Gansbaai - great view and service
Excellent view and nice amenities. Rooms are large but a little crowded (coffee table and chairs could shrink, queensize bed would fit the bedroom better than king), however very functional. Owners/managers are very helpful and attentive.

10/10 Excellent

Becky, Denver, CO

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great Hotel!
This was our favorite hotel on our 2 week tour of South Africa. The room was large and very inexpensive. The property was well maintained and had all of the upgrades. Upon arrival we were greeted by the caretaker who had upgraded us for free just because there was a better room available that night. He gave us a full tour of the property then when we asked about a good local restaurant not only had a great recommendation but called the owner to make sure he would save a table for us. The location was convenient, very close to our shark diving location the next morning. The view from the hotel was amazing. It overlooked a bay where there were a lot of Southern Right Whales. We were sad to leave this location and wish we could have stayed there a week. An excellent choice for hotel if you will be in the Gansbaai area! We highly, highly recommend it and couldn't stop talking about how great it was after we left.

6/10 Okay

Mattias

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Todo fue maravilloso, es un hotel ideal. Los desayunos buenísimos y a elegir. Volveremos seguro.
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2019

4/10 Poor

Ariel G

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Fue una noche, de viaje a la ruta jardín, el lugar ofrece solo buceo con tiburones y avistaje de ballenas, fuera de eso, pueblo fantasma, no tiene playa. No hay que hacer a las 6 de la tarde. Difícil encontrar comida después de esa hora.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Grosszuegiges Zimmer
Grosszuegiges Zimmer (Wohnraum und getrennter Schlafraum) mit schoenem Bad. Vollständige Küche mit kalten Getränken im Kühlschrank (unkomplizierte Bezahlung am Abreisetag). Architektonisch ineressantes Haus (rund aussen und innen!)
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2017

6/10 Okay

Serena

Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
attenzione alle stanze al primo piano!
Le recensioni su questa struttura erano ottime, ma purtroppo il mio soggiorno ha presentato delle criticità. Innanzitutto ho inviato loro almeno 4 mail per avvisarli di un late check in e non mi hanno mai risposto costringendomi a telefonare direttamente dal Sud Africa, poi fortunatamente alla telefonata ho avuto risposta e non ci sono stati problemi per il late check in. Il problema principale, però, è stata la stretta scala a chiocciola che ho dovuto affrontare per salire in stanza. L'hotel è strutturato con la maggior parte delle stanze a piano terra e credo 2 camere al primo piano, avevo letto che non c'era l'ascensore, ma non mi aspettavo una scala a chiocciola stretta ed angusta. Portare su una valigia di oltre 25 kg non è stato affatto facile! La stanza era gradevole, ma un po' vecchiotta, inoltre il bagno era più grande della stanza da letto stessa, dove mancava un armadio, per fortuna stavamo lì solo 2 giorni. Non la definirei una brutta struttura, ma sinceramente non ci tornerei, per me i contro sono stati superiori ai pro.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2017

10/10 Excellent

Nina

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cool building
Great hotel with really nice and helpful staff. Great breakfast.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
圆屋酒店
这家酒店的评价很高，因为设计的很好，但可惜我们住的不是main building，是对面的一栋，感觉就没有了。

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service
Ok hotel in n rustige omgeving
Meer dan 21 km verwijdert van Hermanus. Rustig dorpje

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Room comfort
Es war ganz ok aber nicht so wie man es sonst aus Südafrika kennt. Die Gastgeber haben sich nicht viel Zeit genommen.

6/10 Okay

Beate, Potsdam

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Leider etwas schmuddelig
Wir sind mit großen Erwartungen in dieses Hotel gefahren. Wir hatten auch gehofft in einem runden Zimmer zu schlafen. Bekamen dann aber ein sehr geräumiges extra Häuschen mit 2 Schlafzimmern und großem Wohnzimmer mit Küche. Ideal für eine Familie. Leider regnete es bei unser Ankunft und wir konnten die Aussenmöglichkeiten nicht nutzen. (Grill, Pool ect) Der Chef des Hotels war sehr nett, aber leider war alles sehr schmutzig. Schade, sonst hätten wir besser bewertet. Wenn mehr auf die Sauberkeit geachtet wird, dann ist es sicher sehr viel schöner dort.

8/10 Good

Bénédicte

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
guesthouse située dans une toute petite ville, dans un quartier résidentiel où il n'y a rien sauf un pub où l'on peut diner, situation idéale pour plonger avec les requins à Gansbaii

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

F&B.B, München

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Wahle watching zu Fuß möglich
Auffallend ist die natürliche Freundlichkeit und Hilfsbereitschaft des Personals und das originelle Design des Hauses. Der whirlpool auf dem Dach bei sternenklarer Nacht ist Erholung pur. Und tagsüber liegt ein Fernglas bereit, mit dem man die Wale von der Dachterasse beobachten kann.

10/10 Excellent

RE, Bielefeld

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wahle Watching von der Terasse aus
'Wir waren mit der Familie für 1 Nacht dort und hatten das Glück von der Terasse aus Wahle zu sehen. Ein einmaliges Ereignis