HotelMount Nelson

Frommers rate the Mount Nelson Hotel a full three stars, meaning that this hotel is exceptional. According to the author of this review the "worst thing about staying here" is when it’s time to leave. It is situated a "10-minute stroll" from the city centre through the "Company Gardens" and the Mount Nelson's own nine acres of gardens offer "all th [more]

The article proclaims the Mount Nelson to be "one of the most memorable hotels of the world" and states that this "magnificent pink structure surrounded by little satellite hotels" located on "9 acres of grounds" is not only "near the best nightlife" but also "reeks of nearly vanished colonial elegance". The hotel has an ambiance "of exclusivity [more]

The reviewer of the Mount Nelson Hotel, travel writer Carrie Hampton, started her "experience" there with the "wonderful tradition of Afternoon Tea" and as she comments," it doesn't get much better that Tea at the Nellie" as the hotel is called locally. She said that "famous faces are common" there and wrote of a few that she saw. The lounge, lobby [more]