Yesterday Cape Town was announced as Best City in the Telegraph Travel Awards. Quite an honour considering 90 000 people voted. The runners up were the cities of Vancouver and Venice. Additionally, The New York Times last year made Cape Town the best city to visit as a tourist destination. Well done to us!
The Telegraph Travel Awards is the most comprehensive and reliable survey of its kind. Read more about the awards and how Cape Town won here.
Last night we visited Aces ‘n’ Spades, where an epic battle of the bands contest took place. The winning band, Grace Town, won themselves an opening slot at the Electric Vines New Year’s Eve Festival. Speaking of which, we have two tickets valued at R800 each to be won in our Electric Vines Twitter competition.
Keeping with the winning theme, we have also launched a competition in conjunction with Café Culture, where two hampers (each to the value of R500) can be won.
Christmas shopping just got a whole lot more convenient too. Now you can park at The Clock Tower at the V&A on weekends for only R10 for five hours. Expect more insider tips with a Capetonian twist by following the #CTEtipoffs hashtag on Twitter.
Cheers,
Justin
mark_keohane Bruceps CapeTownEtc Nobody cares who came second.
Cape Town the racist city in South Africa, where the whites fly and blacks die.
Amen to that
Just a pity about the rest of the country that’s a toilet of note.
Rubbish!!!!!! Blacks and whites die in every province….stop looking for attention and sympathy!!!
?????? Thats not true… I dont know where you stay? But for sure NOT IN OUR CT…
Another amen to that.
Whites also die in Cape Town. I knew some of them
So glad im moving to cape town this month;)
Love it would go back tomorrow x
Romy Tatiya Allies U0001f49b
Cape Town is beautiful, but I still miss the people in Jozi and the Vibes.
Janie stay in freestate with the old flag flying
But of course we are!!
Take note ANC!
O sô !!!
Jo’burg had more visiting tourists this year? Trying to find the link Yusuf Davids
I love Cape Town U0001f49c
Ever been to the rest of the country? You probably can’t afford it!
Most beautiful part about Cape Town? Where the N1 turns back to Jo’burg!
It figures,it’s the only city run by the DA!
Definitely love it
Petrus dat die Kaap pragtig is en in baie opsigte beter werk as die res van die land is nie te betwyfel nie. Ek is nou 4 maande terug na nege jaar in Centurion. Ek mis die noorde baie en daar is ander dinge wat dit daar die moeite werd maak – een groot ding wat die Gautengers het wat hier nie is nie, is die wonderlike weer daarbo. Hoekom Jhb dalk meer besoekers kry is omdat dit die ekonomiese hub is, baie mense uit Afrika en dwarsoor die wereld gaan soontoe agv besigheid.
And… IT also won another award today ” most expensive city”
Sure! With a bizarre flat-topped mountain and a lavatory seat in the foreground???
Pleeeezzeee stop telling everybody!!
I’m on my way to Cape Town for good
Eugene Schultz kan Ons by jou kom bly
Jealousy makes you nasty huh!
On whose opinion?
Ofcourse we do
I can well imagine that. As I was driving out of the suburbs towards the city this morning I thought to myself that I’m sure there isn’t another place in the whole wide world that has such a scenic route to work.
Can’t get better than this
Hi there Helen! I’ll have know that is no lavatory seat. It’s a trough for stray cattle! Lol.
Another thing. We like our mountain nice and flat for picnics. You can’t sit comfortably on a pointy one.
Spoken like a true Gautenger who would love to live in the Cape.
Amen sister!
how many of those 90 000 were from the under privileged areas in and around Cape Town?
Miss you beautiful Cape Town…
mwmedianl Inderdaad!
Cool bananas!!!
Thanks to the DA it has not gone to the dogs like other cities in SA!!!!
Best city in the world!!
Ek weet dit laaankal
Not a huge surprise huh?
Dis die beste en mooiste plek ooit!!!!!
We are envious of the ugly flat topped mine dumps and stadium that looks like dried excrement
View from my house in Cape Town. Love this place !!
best city for tourists but not for all its citizens which is pity, if gov could uplift the poor it will benefit tourists too
Cape Town is the most beautiful but Gauteng is by far the friendliest + I live in both so I can talk
The Friends of Cape Town Society
You need tourists not government to uplift poor. Dont you get it. Govt cannot uplift anybody except themselves
Vertel dit vir Fransman en Erinrich
Are they friggin stupid??? With this dimwit bloody government?
On I miss Cape Town
beautiful place…but dream on…a matter of opinion…
A matter of fact!!
Opinion…
Ons ander huis is in Bloubergstrand – die mooiste plek. Dis net ‘n plesier om i.d. Kaap te wees, alles is SOO anders en beter as Gauteng – kannie wag vir die dag om offisieel ‘n Kapenaar te wees nie
Claire Ní Chorrain
Durban is pretty cool?
Not hard to see why, everything just works, with the exception of the national power grid , not under their control.
I heard rumors the ANC I gonna give Table Mountian to Zuma and lay it down at Nkandla ! Wont be surprise they wil steal anything !
Congratulations Western Cape, keepup the performance, thanx 2 the DA!
Baie Baie pragtig !!
That’s just great. Watch the crime rate go through the roof now!
Welcome back
Die mooiste maar beslis nie die beste nie
We are very lucky!
So what’s new?? We all in CT know this already U0001f609
Oh right Sandra so if the DA does not work for you…who would you like to replace it with HUH???
I agree! And I live in Johannesburg! Whenever I land in CT I just know this is a different city! I adore CT and try to get there as often as I can. You Capetonians are so blessed!
We’re very blessed to live in such a beautiful city.
thank the DA …..congrats Danny…my best destination for a holiday by far
Yes! and I call it home!
Does anyone know the song?? I was taught this as a child – Cape Town that is the place for me, Cape Town I love you so, Kimberely is very nice you know, Durban is pretty and so is Joburg city, but it’s Cape Town that is the place for me its sunny climate suits me to a T and how, Bloemfontein and Mafeking they alright and everything but Cape Towns the place for me!
stadium an eye sore
Very nice…. except for the very expensive, disgusting, round, white elephant in the middle of the picture.
well said,Sandra.
It is pretty clear to me that whoever formulated this opinion is living in a ‘dark potato sack’ and has never travelled around the world. Cape Town is a bloody cemetery with a few Christmas lights in Adderley street. If you have only tasted dry bread you will not know that a scone with strawberry jam and freshly whipped cream tastes better! I rest my case. Thank you. 🙂
Andrea Mathias
Ian Ian Williamson David Moyle Roelie Smit come home
Only City, with some brains in the Govt.!!!
Neville Taylor Jean Taylor
CT best city Nz best country fair result 🙂
Helen Zilla for president.
Pragtigste stad in Suid Afrika!
Stem saam
So true!! I’m so jealous now!
Nasty?????
Nasty remarks
Cape Town is clean and beautiful. Lives in Gauteng and NEVER seen such a DIRTY place. So pleased I’m out of that place!!!
Enjoy??? Lots of beautiful bays to visit. Road to C.T. is in very good condition.
Oh some people just makes my eyes roll
the pearl of Africa. I love it
Is that a huge Gravy Bowl
My most beautiful city 🙂
revolutionrob_ Daaaaamn… Go Cape Town indeed, that’s AMAZING!!!
Cape Town amazing place
Now the secrets out!
Of Course!
Feliciamabuza allcapetown helenzille obvious
What would the friends of Rio San Fran or Paris say I wonder
I do not doubt it is true, but it was Daily Telegraph readers who voted it so.