Cape Town · V&A Waterfront · Design Hotel
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Thomas Heatherwick's pillowed-glass conversion of a 1920s grain silo, perched above the Zeitz MOCAA museum. Twenty-eight suites, each with jewel-box windows that bulge into the harbour sky.
XRED EYEZ Guide Note
Come up to Willaston Bar at 6pm even if you aren't staying — the sunset over Table Bay is the room's showpiece.
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