It’s tempting to re-define Pepper Tree House beyond the confines of a private holiday home to rent. A bit like many of the women you pass in the streets of Milan or Paris who project that almost impossible to copy street-chic. So let’s rename Pepper Tree House a multi-level urban ‘sky-villa’ then.
You could describe the interiors as neutral with accents of aged wood, glass and steel but that would seem too cool, too remote.
It’s much, much more fun staying at this family friendly hideaway. Firstly, it’s in the heart of De Waterkant and surrounded by apartments and houses on narrow cobbled streets. You will photograph, paint or sketch them – if that’s your talent. It demands that kind of visual souvenir.
From Pepper Tree’s rooftop, up a few steps from an outdoor dining area, there’s a plunge pool on a deck with the most amazing views of Table Mountain’s flat top.
By day, armed with a glass of crisp white Sauvignon Blanc take a dip, sit cross-legged and watch the city live. Reads its signs. The Aerial Cableway will be ferrying visitors up Table Mountain – but not if that famous cloud ‘cloth’ boils over like vapour from dry ice. Locals will be hanging out in coffee shops sipping their first double espresso of the day. Note: join them.
An endlessly entertaining perfect hideaway
In the harbour, over the heads of distant cranes, you may time the gradual docking of a luxury ocean liner. Ah but they’re only here for 48 hours. By night your view changes to an undulating matrix of lights that define the contours of the bay.
The bright busy-ness of De Waterkant’s clubs, restaurants, coffee shops and fashion outlets are minutes from your front door.
Looking for a unique holiday home in winter? Pepper tree House is a cosy, romantic getaway. There’s a fireplace and one particularly tempting leather armchair that suggests you might take a warm throw, curl up and shut out the world for a while.
Or plan a weekend getaway and make use of the well-equipped kitchen in your self-catering accommodation to hold a dinner party with gourmet dishes and fresh ingredients sourced from the famous delis around you.
Edited by Dawn Kennedy