Whilst nearly half the rooms and the main restaurant and bar are in the 'Cellars', the old Manor House accommodates more bedrooms, another restaurant serving Cape Malay food, and the main conference facilities complete with their own bar and lounge areas.

The variety of buildings includes the outbuildings from the winery which have now been converted into a number of suites and self contained multi-bedroomed houses, all in close proximity to the main building. This variety has also enabled multiple pool areas and a separately housed spa and hairdressing salon overlooking the vineyard. The spa relaxation area is a shaded outdoor terrace, which for eight months of the year at least will deliver warmth from the sun, although well shaded by large umbrellas.

All the buildings are surrounded by gardens which provide further opportunity for tennis courts and other outdoor activities for guests, supplementing the quiet retreats the gardens provide.

Suites have their own outdoor lounging areas and have French windows which open into these quiet areas. Several suites are contemporary in style, with large bathrooms sporting luxury power showers, free standing tubs concealed by mirrored doors that can be opened to make them one with the bedroom area of the suite. Space has also been made for small dressing room areas. The use of the mirrored doors offers the alternatives of the bath sharing the bedroom, or a fully enclosed bathroom for those who prefer to separate their wet activities from sleep areas.

The lounges have flat screen TV's and their own small wet bar area. Furnishings are cleverly done, traditional chair frames upholstered in funky modern fabrics bridging the stylistic gap between modernism and the traditional, beautifully restored, architecture. The same trick is pulled with lighting, such as traditional chandeliers made in non-traditional materials such as Perspex.

"...dramatic and theatrical visual experiences"

The game of mixing modern and traditional is played with some skill throughout the bedroom provision. The hotel has the additional bonus of being able to use the external spaces to provide additional terrace areas for bedrooms, along with the addition of strong colour through the planting.

This mixing of interior and exterior features can be seen throughout the hotel, and the use of the gardens to extend the interiors, to make the landscape part of the inscape, combined with clear and skilful use of lighting provides some dramatic and theatrical visual experiences for the guest.