Cape Town's Hotel for Regular Folks
Ah, that's more like it. After impressing us last week with a great review of a quality property, this week the New York Times finds plenty wrong with the Extreme Hotel Cape Town.
Not that the hotel actually sounds that bad. But reviewer Bonnie Tsui is not impressed by the hotel's ever-present TV screens showing extreme sports and the kitschy decoration. (Skis hanging on the wall, anyone?) She doesn't even like the other guests, including some "decidedly nonadventurous Europeans."
But what about the rooms? They don't sound too bad to us:
Nothing extreme about them. There are two room categories: standard and executive. The price difference is so slight, about $20, that it's worth the upgrade to what the front desk staff assured me were the biggest rooms. Our executive room was definitely not large (about 300 square feet, bathroom and curtained closet space included), but it was functional, with a flat-screen television (15 channels, including the ever-present Extreme Sports Channel), a comfortable king-size bed and an in-your-face view of Table Mountain
Hey, for about $130, this place sounds OK, even if the other guests aren't all young, fashionable extreme-sports supermodels.
[Photo: NYT]
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