What sets the Queen Victoria Hotel apart from other hotels at the world-renowned V&A Waterfront is undoubtedly its position. Located within a precinct of heritage buildings along Portswood Road – a main artery leading to and from the Waterfront – the Queen Victoria Hotel gives you a sense of being within the Waterfront’s vicinity but removed from the frenetic pace of it.

The advantage of this is that, while staying at the Queen Victoria Hotel, you have easy access to the Waterfront – the shopping precincts, the harbour, the restaurants and other must-see attractions – yet you are positioned away from it, in a relaxed, secluded enclave that overlooks majestic Table Mountain, the City Bowl, Cape Town Harbour and the Atlantic Ocean.

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From the N2 (Cape Town International Airport)

• Take the N2 towards Cape Town. 
• Keep on this road, following the signs for Cape Town North, and then M6 Sea Point. 
• If in doubt, keep bearing right the whole time! 
• You will then see the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on your left-hand side (very large cream-coloured building), and there will be a set of traffic lights at a major junction. 
• Go straight over this set of lights, and turn right at the next set onto Western Boulevard. 
• Keep to the right lane, and at the next set of traffic lights, turn right into Portswood Road.
• Turn off Portswood Road into Portswood Ridge passing under the Portswood Hotel. 
• Continue past the Portswood Hotel main entrance and follow the road to left – passing Allan Gray on your right. 
• Continue along that road until you reach the Queen Victoria Hotel on the right. 
• Valet parking is available outside the main entrance, or proceed past the hotel and turn right into the Queen Victoria Hotel parking area.
• To exit proceed straight from the parking area and turn left at Ulundi, pass the Everard Read Gallery and finally turn right back into Porstwood Road.