Whatever the size of your travelling team, this hideaway generously hosts as many as you can muster, with its five bedrooms, additional loft apartment, grand reception rooms, state-of-the-art kitchen, ample dining and entertaining spaces, a pizza oven and a swimming pool, a tennis court and a mammoth family TV room. The list goes on with all of the abounding pockets of comfort and languid seating areas, reading nooks and bar counters to occupy.

All enrobed in the finest of furnishings, an eye for avant-garde design and classical art pieces, and enough open space to draw you out from the inspiration of its interiors, across the enchanting gardens, and up to the mountain. This hideaway is so much more than a home immersed in nature, it is an urban sanctuary as such, where you and your favourite people will find it rather tempting to remain put, for the duration of your stay in Cape Town.

The beautiful grounds will set the tone for that opulent escape you and your clan are after. Days spent around the pool, snacking on homemade pizzas and a perfectly seared sirloin off the braai. Sipping on Pimm’s whilst the tennis gets underway. Others are opting for a workout session in the gym whilst some like to tend to that chef’s role of slicing and dicing in the kitchen, sourcing some of the herbs and citrus fruits from the garden.

There will be those moments of quiet repose in the reclining areas of the home – of which there are plenty. Catching up on those much-needed family bonding chats or a few chapters of that holiday novel you can’t put down. It’s wonderful when the merriment of a holiday is all happening under one roof.

An exceptional house for memorable moments.

When the moment does arrive for you to venture off the property, the choices of where to go and what to tap into are also endless. Being a swift drive away from some of the finest wine farms in the country, you’ll be spoilt for choice for where you’ll be tasting and dining. Perhaps a bit of forest foraging or mountain hiking and biking. Visits to the esteemed art galleries or quaint little beach hamlets are just a scenic drive away.

You’ll love the excursions out in the wilderness of the urban adventures, but you’ll equally love returning home to Burnished Earth. Where your bountiful bonding resumes, around the supper tables, on the lawn – barefoot beneath the stars – beside the fire places and certainly next to the fancy bar. Regaling the day’s adventures and all that’s still to come.

Written by Colleen Ogilvie