{"id":19503,"date":"2012-05-26T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T10:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/?p=19503"},"modified":"2018-11-09T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:59:20","slug":"birkenhead-house-where-time-sleeps-and-dreams-whisper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/travel-insight\/birkenhead-house-where-time-sleeps-and-dreams-whisper.htm","title":{"rendered":"Birkenhead House; Where Time Sleeps and Dreams Whisper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are you ready for a deluxe adventure? Birkenhead House will do the honours. A place where southern whales migrate toward the waters of the Walker\u2019s Bay, in the cold feasting month of July, while visitors lounge back on the white armchairs and comfy sofas to admire this marvellous spectacle. Robyn Hudson claims to have an \u2018affair\u2019 will Birkenhead house. He thinks it might even be \u2018real love\u2019. The spectacular resort has been called as the perfect honeymoon destination by its visitors.<\/p>\n

They say there is an air of romance\u2019 as you enter in through the open doorways, as you gaze through the gleaming water pools, as you look across the sparkling tiles, as you feel the sea air slowly drifting across your skin. This beauty does not end here; the vast antiquely decorated suites that face the golden waters take this romance to a whole different class. Such beauty can be an addiction sometimes, an addiction that is too hard to resist.<\/p>\n

One and half hour away from the Cape Town, a seashore back road leads to this stylish antiquely decorated hotel located on the top of the cliffs. The basic design of the hotel portrays a blend of natural beauty with classic luxury. The hotel is perfectly suited for someone looking for a high-class accommodation to savour his moments of tranquillity. The interior of the hotel perfectly harmonizes with its surrounding landscape.<\/p>\n

The vast rooms have immense glass windows with overlook to the waters. The design has a collection of Chinese Russian and French styled antiques and mirrors dressed in exotic shells and animal skin prints. The hotel provides fully equipped water facing 11 suits with marbled washrooms which have exquisite lighting.Regular cheap flights\u00a0to Cape Town<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are available around the year.<\/p>\n

The hotel’s food is a class in its own. Wayne Spencer and Edmund Viljoen, the head chefs of the resort, combine the tastes of Asia and Europe and bring them to the restaurant\u2019s menu with extreme delicacy. They create delicious menus and manage to maintain the overall lightness of the food without a tinge of ostentation. Harbor fresh seafood is a sweet delight for one’s palate. And not forgetting the extremely appetizing variety from the wild quail, hot sausage risotto, to mushroom toast and what not. The hot spice of the special chutney balanced with the sweet softness banana tempura will now be so too much to miss.T he hotel allows you to trickle down this delicious spicy fare with varieties of exquisite cold wines. The wine menus give you the feeling closest to a celebrity.<\/p>\n

You can immerse yourself in the highest level of luxury by indulging into the hotel`s treatment centre and enjoy all the aristocracy by visiting the hotel’s gym and sparkling. At night you can dine into the hotel`s dining balcony which overlooks to the rushing waters of walker`s bay which are sometimes calm and the others turbulent. The nearby attractions include two grandiose golf courses. Arabella Golf estate which is about one and a half hour drive from here is known to the `world\u2019s heritage spot\u2019. If the adrenaline rush is too much one can enjoy the attractions of deep sea diving, boat fishing, scuba diving and many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for a deluxe adventure? Birkenhead House will do the honours. A place where southern whales migrate toward the waters of the Walker\u2019s Bay, in the cold feasting month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-19503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-insight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39151,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19503\/revisions\/39151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19503"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelhouseuk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=19503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}