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De Waal Park is a public green space in the City Bowl, shaded by mature trees and popular for quiet walks and gatherings. It sits within this central district, bordered by the streets of the surrounding neighbourhood.
Ordered by walking time, then star rating and guest score. Times are estimates from each hotel's map position (straight-line distance plus a quarter for streets, at 5 km/h); check the route before you go.
Cape Riviera Guesthouse is the closest of the De Waal Park hotels at 220 m, a 3 minute walk, and its outdoor pool, breakfast and lounge make it an easy base for park and city days. Free car parking and family rooms suit guests arriving by car or with children.
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Cactus House Gay Male Guesthouse Adults Only is 240 m from De Waal Park, a 4 minute walk. The 3 star house offers an outdoor pool, breakfast, a lounge and free Wifi, and free car parking for guests driving into the City Bowl.
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15 on Upper Orange puts you 310 m from De Waal Park, about 5 minutes on foot. The 4 star house keeps things simple with free car parking and free Wifi, which suits guests who want the park and the City Bowl grid within an easy walk.
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Fairmont And Albany P1 is 360 m from De Waal Park, a 5 minute walk, with Wifi to keep you connected. The 4 star address works for travellers who want the park, the museums and the restaurants of the City Bowl within a short walk.
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First Group Mount Sierra is 360 m from De Waal Park, 5 minutes on foot, and adds an indoor pool, spa, family rooms, kitchen and air conditioning to a City Bowl stay. Free car parking makes it practical for guests arriving by car.
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Four Rosmead sits 360 m from De Waal Park, about 5 minutes away, with an outdoor pool, breakfast and air conditioning. Free car parking and free Wifi suit guests who want the park and the City Bowl streets on foot.
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5 Camp Street Guesthouse & Self catering is 360 m from De Waal Park, a 5 minute walk. The 3 star house has an outdoor pool, breakfast, a bar and lounge, family rooms and a kitchen, with free car parking for drivers.
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Esperanza Guest House is 330 m from De Waal Park, about 5 minutes on foot. The 3 star house offers an outdoor pool, a lounge, free Wifi, wheelchair access and free car parking, a straightforward base for City Bowl days.
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Table Mountain view is 330 m from De Waal Park, a 5 minute walk, and gives you a kitchen, free Wifi and free car parking. It suits guests who want to self-cater while keeping the park and the City Bowl grid close.
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One Kensington Boutique Hotel is 390 m from De Waal Park, 6 minutes on foot, and is rated 4.6 out of 5 from 60 reviews. The 4 star house offers an outdoor pool, lounge, family rooms, a kitchen and air conditioning, with free car parking.
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All the hotels listed here sit in the City Bowl, and the nearest are a 3 to 6 minute walk from De Waal Park. Cape Riviera Guesthouse, 220 m away with an outdoor pool and free car parking, is the closest. Cactus House Gay Male Guesthouse Adults Only is 240 m off, and One Kensington Boutique Hotel, rated 4.6 out of 5 from 60 reviews and 390 m away, adds a pool, lounge and family rooms. Sunsquare Cape Town Gardens, 430 m away and rated 4.3 from 1125 reviews, has a fitness centre and pets allowed.
The closest hotels are a genuine walk: Cape Riviera Guesthouse at 220 m and Cactus House at 240 m are 3 to 4 minutes on foot, and 15 on Upper Orange, Esperanza Guest House and Table Mountain view at 330 m are about 5 minutes. The cluster at 360 m — First Group Mount Sierra, Four Rosmead, 5 Camp Street Guesthouse & Self catering and Fairmont And Albany P1 — is a 5 minute walk. From 380 to 430 m, including One Kensington, Himmelblau and Sunsquare Cape Town Gardens, expect 6 minutes on foot. From the wider City Bowl, the climb back up to Vredehoek and upper Oranjezicht is punishing uphill in summer heat, as the site warns, so a short ride or taxi is worth considering for the return leg.
De Waal Park is a heritage park in the City Bowl, the amphitheatre of flats and Victorian shopfronts wedged between Table Mountain, Devil's Peak, Signal Hill and the harbour. The neighbourhood takes in the CBD grid, Bo-Kaap on the Signal Hill slope, and the residential shoulders of Gardens, Tamboerskloof, Oranjezicht and Vredehoek, and De Waal Park sits among these streets as a green pause between the mountain and the city grid. People visit because the park is part of a City Bowl stay that needs no car: the site notes that the cableway, the museums, three markets and about two hundred restaurants sit within a thirty-minute walk of each other, and the mountain is always there to tell you which way is south. The same text warns honestly that this is a real city centre — keep your phone away on Long Street after midnight and expect car-guard interactions. For travellers who want the park, the streets and the mountain slope in one walkable base, the City Bowl is the setting, and the hotels near De Waal Park put you inside it.
Cape Riviera Guesthouse is the closest hotel we list, about 3 min walk · 220 m from De Waal Park in a straight line, in Cape Town.
Yes: 193 of the hotels we list are within 1 km of De Waal Park, about a 15-minute walk, and 44 are within 500 m. The closest is Cape Riviera Guesthouse, 220 m away.
Cape Riviera Guesthouse, Cactus House Gay Male Guesthouse Adults Only, 15 on Upper Orange list free parking on their own page. Check the hotel page for the details.
One Kensington Boutique Hotel has the best guest score of the hotels near De Waal Park: 4.6/5 from 60 reviews, 390 m away.
88 of the hotels we list within 1 km of De Waal Park have 4 or 5 stars, the nearest being Cape Riviera Guesthouse (220 m).
Several do. Cape Riviera Guesthouse, Cactus House, First Group Mount Sierra with its indoor pool, Four Rosmead, 5 Camp Street Guesthouse & Self catering, Esperanza Guest House, One Kensington Boutique Hotel and Sunsquare Cape Town Gardens all list a pool, and all sit within 430 m of De Waal Park.
Cape Riviera Guesthouse at 220 m, First Group Mount Sierra, 5 Camp Street Guesthouse & Self catering and One Kensington Boutique Hotel at 390 m all list family rooms, and the last two also list a kitchen. Sunsquare Cape Town Gardens at 430 m, rated 4.3 from 1125 reviews, also lists family rooms.