More Quarters

Cool, Cape and very More-ish apartments in a quiet cul-de-sac in one of the city's hippest downtown areas

It always feels good to return to Kloof Street and its laid back café culture: it's the sort of place that makes you hanker for your own pied-à-terre in Africa's most beautiful city. Brit and Rob More did too and - thinking big - bought a whole cul-de-sac of Cape cottages before converting them into some of the city's snazziest apartments.

They chose an all white colour scheme and married clean cut, angular, contemporary furnishings and fittings with jazzy art to create a vibe that is as peaceful as the quiet cul-de-sac outside your window. These 17 apartments all have swish kitchenettes and the possibility of indoor and outdoor dining but, if your holiday idyll doesn't include self-catering, you can wander a few yards along the street to M.Q.'s first floor breakfast room which catches the breeze and a view up to Table Mountain.

If you prefer a hotel bedroom rather than an apartment, sister hotel Cape Cadogan is just round the corner, where the decorative airs and flair of the More family are present in equal measure.

Highs

• The all-white décor of the apartments feels clean, uncluttered and very nicely Noughties
• You're yards from Kloof Street's lively bars and restaurants, and a short taxi ride from the Waterfront
• The apartments flank a quiet cul-de-sac where there's no traffic nuisance
• More Quarters' staff are young, bright, relaxed and extremely helpful
• There's bags of parking space right outside your door, and 24-hour surveillance by a friendly attendant

Lows

• No lunches or dinners are on offer, but if you fancy eating in, there are takeaways of every kind a phone call away (and you can always pop round the corner for posh afternoon tea at the Mount Nelson)
• There can be noise from the street and nearby bars - the flipside of its buzzy location
• You'll need to jump in a cab for the beach or the Table Mountain cable car