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Kentemade is a railway station in Salt River, on the Cape Town rail network. It serves the Salt River district and the streets between the station and the city centre.
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.
Limbila House is the closest of these hotels to Kentemade, 640 metres or about 10 minutes on foot, and its 4 stars sit in a quiet residential pocket. Free car parking, a kitchen, family rooms and wheelchair access make it practical for a longer stay built around the murals and the food of Salt River.
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Brooklyn Queens and Kings Guesthouse is 900 metres from Kentemade, roughly 13 minutes on foot, and keeps the essentials for a budget-minded visit: free car parking, family rooms, a kitchen and air conditioning. At 2 stars it is one of the simplest stays close to the station and the Voortrekker Road frontage.
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One Bedroom Apartment is a 4-star option 1.0 km from Kentemade, about 15 minutes on foot. The kitchen, family rooms, wheelchair access and free car parking suit guests who want to cook between mural mornings and taproom evenings rather than eat out for every meal.
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Comfort and calm zone is 1.1 km from Kentemade, a 17 minute walk, and offers a kitchen and free car parking with free wifi. Its name sets the tone: a plain, self-catering base for a project or a long stay in Salt River rather than a hotel with services.
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Convenient Comfort sits 1.1 km from Kentemade, about 17 minutes on foot, with a kitchen, free car parking, wheelchair access and free wifi. The combination makes it a workable base for guests who want to cook and come and go by car while the murals are on the doorstep.
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Boblodge is 1.2 km from Kentemade, an 18 minute walk, and pairs 3 stars with a lounge, a kitchen, free car parking and free wifi. The lounge gives a group or a longer-staying guest somewhere to sit outside their room after a day along Voortrekker Road.
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Neighbourgood Loop is 1.2 km from Kentemade, about 18 minutes on foot, and keeps things minimal with air conditioning and free wifi. Its 3 stars and central position suit guests who plan to be out at the murals and the taprooms rather than in the room.
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Zoe Apartment is 1.2 km from Kentemade, roughly 19 minutes on foot, and offers a kitchen and free wifi at 3 stars. Self-catering here means you can shop locally and eat in between morning walks to the mural walls and the station.
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Lodgeon91 brings 5 stars to a stay 1.3 km from Kentemade, about 20 minutes on foot, with breakfast, a kitchen, air conditioning, wheelchair access and free car parking. It is the most comfortable of the Kentemade hotels for guests who want service as well as a self-catering option.
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4 Essex Street Apartment is 1.3 km from Kentemade, a 20 minute walk, and stands out for its pool bar, lounge, fitness centre, free car parking, pets policy and family rooms. The 3-star apartment suits a group or a family that wants facilities on site as well as the murals nearby.
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Staying in Salt River puts the murals, the halaal takeaways along Voortrekker and the station itself within a short walk. Among the closest options are Limbila House at 640 metres, Brooklyn Queens and Kings Guesthouse at 900 metres and One Bedroom Apartment at 1.0 km, all of which keep a kitchen and free car parking. Add the nearby Comfort and calm zone, Convenient Comfort and Boblodge, and you have a cluster of Kentemade hotels that works for a stay built around the art festival and the food, rather than around sea views or green space.
Guests at the closest properties walk: Limbila House is 640 metres from Kentemade, about 10 minutes on foot, and Brooklyn Queens and Kings Guesthouse is 900 metres, some 13 minutes. One Bedroom Apartment, Comfort and calm zone, Convenient Comfort and Boblodge sit between 1.0 km and 1.2 km, so a 15 to 18 minute walk. From 1.2 km to 1.5 km, Neighbourgood Loop, Zoe Apartment, Lodgeon91, 4 Essex Street Apartment, Lodge Luxe Cozy Bedrooms and Oria Guesthouse are better reached by a short ride or by transit than on foot, with walk times of 18 to 22 minutes. Coming from the airport or elsewhere in Cape Town, a drive or taxi is the practical way in, and free car parking at most of these hotels matters here.
Kentemade is the railway station in Salt River, and for most visitors it is a landmark of access rather than of architecture: the point where the trains, the factories and the mural walls of this industrial quarter meet. The public art festival that runs through February each year has turned the buildings around Salt River Circle, Cecil Road and Voortrekker Road into canvases, with murals four and five storeys high painted by artists from Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lagos and Europe. This is paint on live industrial buildings with forklifts underneath, not a mural district retrofitted onto a gentrified street. Photographers get more out of a morning here than out of a week in Camps Bay. What pulls people to hotels near Kentemade is the combination of the street art, the food along Voortrekker Road and the taprooms of the industrial blocks. The densest cluster of murals lies within 600 metres of Salt River Circle, along Cecil Road, Beryl Street and the Voortrekker Road frontage, and the light is best on the west-facing walls between 9am and noon. It is a working, budget-minded quarter, and the hotels close to Kentemade suit long stays, film and project work, and anyone hunting the art and the food on foot.
Limbila House is the closest hotel we list, about 10 min walk · 640 m from Kentemade in a straight line, in Cape Town.
Yes: 2 of the hotels we list are within 1 km of Kentemade, about a 15-minute walk, and 0 are within 500 m. The closest is Limbila House, 640 m away.
Limbila House, Brooklyn Queens and Kings Guesthouse, One Bedroom Apartment list free parking on their own page. Check the hotel page for the details.
None of the hotels near Kentemade has enough guest reviews yet to compare scores; the list above is ordered by walking time, then stars.
1 of the hotels we list within 1 km of Kentemade have 4 or 5 stars, the nearest being Limbila House (640 m).
The self-catering options work best for a long stay: Limbila House, One Bedroom Apartment, Comfort and calm zone, Convenient Comfort, Boblodge and Zoe Apartment all have a kitchen, and most add free car parking. Limbila House, at 640 metres, is the closest of them.
Free car parking appears at Limbila House, Brooklyn Queens and Kings Guesthouse, One Bedroom Apartment, Comfort and calm zone, Convenient Comfort, Boblodge, Lodgeon91, 4 Essex Street Apartment, Lodge Luxe Cozy Bedrooms and Oria Guesthouse. Wheelchair access is listed at Limbila House, One Bedroom Apartment, Convenient Comfort and Lodgeon91. Parking matters in this quarter, and these hotels provide it.