Batavia Boutique Hotel

Such a super hotel in a really great location, just two minutes from the restaurants and shops. The rooms and service were both excellent, breakfast superb. Highly recommend.

Excellent location, walking distance to central Stellenbosch. Lovely light & airy rooms, and comfy communal lounge area. Good coffee in the room and in the lounge. Great breakfast. Excellent staff. Our usual go-to b&b closed after Covid but now we’ve found our new spot.

Rooms were lovely and uniquely decorated in Cape style. Beautiful pool areas. Such friendly and helpful staff. A definite highlight to return to! Well positioned in walking distance to centre of Stellenbosch, restaurants, shops etc.

Room was average: old fashioned. We had expected more modern and luxury room regarding to the price for the room we had to pay … location is super, staf is super friendly, but the overall impression of the hotel is average.

We had a really wonderful stay in this lovely family hotel.....it has a unique style: old/antique furniture combined with modern and fully renovated bath rooms f.ex......it is only 5min or less to walk to the center...it is a very save area.....the stuff and the owner were always available and helped with any questions we had....we would definitely stay here again when we come back to Stelenbosch.

Best hotel we stayed at in the cape town area. Great launching point to explore the wine regions as well as the cape. Only 25 minutes from the airport!!! Less than two minute walk from everything Stellenbosch nightlife has to offer.

Very charming hotel and helpful staff, definitely to be recommandated especially when travelling with children. All the wine estates within 15 min, just off the main street of Stellenbosch. Would go there again in case ..

This hotel is in a superb location just a block from the heart of old Stellenbosch. The owners who seem to be a faceless conglomerate, don't care about their clientele and customer service. It is run on a shoe-string budget. The sp****, poorly trained staff never seem to be there. When they were there, they seemed to be always bickering. The breakfasts were of mediocre quality made by a untrained cook. The rooms are "tired" with a book of rules, (more like threats) about their antique furniture. It was reallya "self-serve" establishment. Very disappointing because Stellenbosch was not.

We are quite mystified by the wonderful reviews for this hotel. We had reserved a 'Superior Double' - shown as having a king bed - through **********. When we arrived however, we were shown to a room that bore no resemblance to what we had booked. The actual bedroom was on a mezzanine level up an odd metal staircase leading from a kitchen area that formed part of the room and the wardrobe was in the bathroom. Initially we didn't want to make a fuss, but the longer we spent trying to decide what to do, the more uncomfortable we felt and realised we just couldn't sleep in that room. When we went to speak to him, the duty manager - who was consistently very pleasant and polite - insisted the booking he had received (from *******) had come through for that specific room, despite us showing him it was not what our booking confirmation indicated. After much back and forth he eventually agreed to move us to a twin room, which we could have booked the previous day and which was much more like what we expected. The weird thing is, the room to which we were initially allocated is described on the hotel's own website as a 'loft-style self-catering unit' - not as a Superior Double so I'm not sure how it could be sold as that. The hotel is located very centrally for Stellenbosch and is within easy walking distance of the centre. At breakfast it seemed odd there were not enough tables for all guests to sit inside. We ate outside which was fine but I'm not sure how they manage in inclement weather. Coffee - served in small bone china cups - was cold within a few minutes of it being served, there were no pastries other than a couple of small muffins, no labels on anything and both the glassware and crockery were mismatched 'olde worlde' style, which we found a bit kitsch. It's almost like the Batavia is trying to be something it just isn't - and sadly it definitely wasn't a 5 star experience.