De Oude Meul Guest House

Since booking communication with this venue was five stars. When the venue experienced an unplanned problem and we could not stay there they booked an alternative. A well located and similar accommodation. We arrived in the evening and the De Oude Meul manager welcomed us and did the check-in. Highly reccomended and we look forward to our stay there in future.

It is an old building which retains its original character. The rooms are dated, but what we expected, and come with tea/coffee making facilities, heating, WiFi that works even during load-shedding (sometimes slightly slow but perfectly adequate), comfortable beds (but with poor quality linen), plenty of storage space, and a good bathroom with toilet, sink and shower, and plenty of hot water. Breakfast is served in the downstairs coffee shop. It was a bit limited in choice and quantity, but of good quality and served quickly even when there was a good number of locals using the coffee shop. Good coffee and a vast array of drinks and meals are available, especially vegetarian. Arno (the owner) and his staff were always most helpful and went out of their way to respond promptly to questions or special requests. It was a good location for our three night stay in the centre of Stellenbosch and in easy walking distance to many restaurants and local attractions - good when one wants to enjoy the excellent wines of the region and not have to drink and drive. It is very competitively priced and good value.

Lovely, clean, and quiet, with great views, easy to find, and simple and basic. easy for an overnighter and a great place to use as a base if you need to explore the surroundings for a few days !!! Wonderful food around the areas , and some good strawberry picking when in season down the road .. if you want to do a Parkrun the best one near-by would, be the ROute 44 one !!!

Lovely stay at oude meul, friendly people, good coffee and breakfast, for our trip the best location to stay. In the Centre of town, but easy to go out to see and visit more of the best of the western cape.

Jason our host was excellent , helpful and friendly. This review is not about him. The bedroom carpet was filthy. The linen was substandard. The Wi-Fi did not work at all. Even when we reported it wasn’t working. There is an excellent restaurant downstairs but unfortunately the smell that comes up to the room in the early morning is revolting. I am very sad to say that I would not recommend this place even if you are desperate. There are better places to stay for the money!!! This is the first negative review I have given which is disappointing.

We spent one night in Stellies for a wedding. The location was great and the breakfast the next morning was delicious. Unfortunately the aircon in our room shone so brightly that it felt like a spotlight on our faces. Other than that, it was perfect for what we needed.

It was a very pleasant stay & the service was very good. Maybe they can just make more effort with the Express Breakfast Pack for guests who need to be early on the road & are not able to sit down for a decent breakfast.

We spent a night there and the next morning our car had been broken into. The car was parked in a closed off car park with a closed gate etc. I know these things happen and I know it was not the Guests houses fault. But we were due to stay there two days later. After taking my car in to be fixed and find out all the damages etc. I had to leave my car at Suzuki for it to be fixed as I was running out of time before going overseas. So, I had to cancel with de Oude Meul. I thought they would be completely understanding as I had no car to get to them, I could not drive to them as I had no car to drive to them. I ask them to give me a full refund as I had to have my car fixed and I could not get to them. I did cancel with 24 hours' notice as well They were not willing to help they wanted to give me a full credit to use in the future which does not help me as I will only be back in about 2 years. so, they offered me 50%. This does not help me either as I am out of pocked over R4000 from the damages to the car. I did not sign any cancellation terms and conditions and no cancelation policy was explained to me. When I did the booking, I was told to pay immediately and to make sure the money reflected immediately which also cost me money. I was told this because there was a waiting list for my room, well so much for waiting list as they could not re sell my room. I found them unhelpful and very un-friendly not interested or understanding that I could not get to them. I had to even cancel my plans that night with family as well that I was meant to meet up with. I would just also like to add on top of this. when we had breakfast the staff was very unfriendly. We only had a choice of a few things as part of breakfast which is great but there was loadshedding so we could not select most of it. When we asked for coffee, we were told sorry no coffee we have loadshedding so, so much for the breakfast included that I paid for we could not have much at all. there was no advanced warning about loading and what can be served and what can't be served. The rooms are nice, and a nice size and I like the old Funiture, but the Funiture is old and very very dirty the chair in our rooms was so dirty it was sticky, and I did not want to put anything on it. The place needs a good clean. it is also very noisy as yes; it is very central but if you don't want noise 24/7 don't stay there. I was told that no other guest house would refund us in full which is wrong a few weeks before that I booked at a different guest house, I had to cancel the one night because of work commitments and they kindly said no problem and refunded me. I tried to book them again, but they were full that is why I booked at de Oude. This other guest house also warned me about loadshedding when I booked to make sure I was ok with it. Overall experience was not nice at all, It was my daughter's graduation the morning of the break in which was not the best for us but we got through it, just reall

The pics on the website where we made the booking are misleading. In reality the interior looks dismal and the room is cramped. Worse still, the shower head is high and close to the wall but the water is so weak that the wall probably gets a better wash than you