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Reviews of Wild Olive Guest House

4 out of 5
Wild Olive Guest House
4 Keurboom Road, Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape

Reviews

9.6

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 67 out of 88 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 18 out of 88 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 2 out of 88 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 1 out of 88 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 88 reviews" "

9.6/10

Cleanliness

9.8/10

Staff & service

9.8/10

Amenities

9.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Pieter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Everything was very good. Beautiful old house with character, very friendly staff, excellent food. Very enjoyable stay.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024
Response from Gill on Mar 20, 2024
Thank you for your recent stay Pieter. We appreciate your feedback. The positive comments will be shared with our staff. We hope to host you again in the near future. Kind regards Wild Olive Team

10/10 Excellent

Mildie

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We only had one night here, but it is a great place to aslo spend more time - convenient location to everything. Great rooms, beautifully decorated. The shower was top notch too. Will be back

10/10 Excellent

Regine

Traveled with family and small children, Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We had an excellent stay at Wild Olive! Tino the manager and all staff were so friendly and helpful. The place is very tidy and nice. Breakfast was awesome. Everything is personalized with so much attention to detail.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Pieter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Everything good.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Trevor

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location, nothing was too much trouble for the hosts.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Peaceful and very relaxed. Central location and excellent food.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Waltman

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worth every penny
Thank you for our stay, everything was top notch, the breakfast was delicious, rooms were clean and comfortable and the staff were always friendly and helpful.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Judge Neels

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Lynne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable luxury
A great home base for our week visit of Cape town.
Stayed 6 nights in May 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I always enjoy every moment at the Wild Olive. Enough said!
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 8 nights in Mar 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

Tahir

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place to stay!
Great little spot in Newlands with a lovely owener. Thank you for the hospitality and for taking care of us!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

Edward

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Bravo
Lovely house with a wonderful pool. Location is great because of secure parking but about 15 minutes out of Cape Town.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable Guest House in Newlands
I have stayed at the Wild Olive Guest House on a number of occasions. The standard is consistently very good with staff being pleasant to deal with. As usual the breakfast was excellent. On this occasion I encountered a problem with the TV set in Room 5 and I trust that management will sort this out.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

10/10 Excellent

Jim, BC Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Staff and facilities met or exceeded expectations. Breafasts were excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2018

10/10 Excellent

Linda, Fairbanks, Alaska

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A perfect location for our stay in Cape Town!
We needed a home base and the Olive was perfect. Comfortable, quiet and a nice breakfast. CLEAN and FRIENDLY. At a moderate price. Will stay there again when we revisit Cape Town.
Stayed 11 nights in Jun 2018

10/10 Excellent

Arie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice accommodation very poor situation next toroad
When I booked the cottage, garden area, beside pool, I thought this was at REAR when in fact it is at the FRONT of the main house, 20 ft from a busy road. When you sit in garden you are 20ft from lorries cars and the noise of car stereos going THUD THUD, and breathing their fumes. even at night we could hear cars racing down the road or accelerating away (it is one house away from traffic lights), Nice room but poor situation. Had to park in street for first night.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018

10/10 Excellent

Stuart

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really good
Very pleasant and helpful staff. Secure parking, nice pool, good WiFi reception and very conveniently placed for the cricket ground at Newlands. We cannot really fault it.

10/10 Excellent

B & F, Hampshire, England

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Superbly comfortable Guest House in great location
The welcome from the Staff was excellent and that experience continued - they simply couldn't do enough to make us comfortable. Fruit, biscuits and even a small carafe of Port in the room; a breakfast that we'll struggle to beat anywhere; and additional meals (when requested) superbly cooked and served. Even a picnic (in a cool bag) was suggested by the Staff for our day in Kirstenbosch gardens, which made a wonderful day even better. If we had questions about anything - directions, the best time to visit places, etc - the Staff took time to research and provide very helpful answers. The location of Wild Olive was brilliant from our perspective, a short drive to Cape Town's V & A and easy access to the False Bay coast, and the Airport, with Kirstenbosch just minutes away. The garden was a place to relax with good seats/sunloungers, a shady Gazebo with comfortable sofas/cushions, and a good swimming pool - sadly, access was limited to early or later in the day due to the water shortage, but even the water shortage was well managed with very little inconvience. We simply can't rate the Wild Olive highly enough.
Stayed 7 nights in Jan 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely guesthouse with great access to Cape
The Wild Olive Guest House is well appointed, with delicious breakfasts, comfortable rooms, lounge, and garden area. Everything about this classic, old house is welcoming. The owners are very friendly and helpful. We stayed over the holidays and the rooms had fresh stocks of homemade holiday cookies and chocolates everyday - a very nice touch. Will definitely stay here next time in the Cape.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017

10/10 Excellent

Ingrid

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice place
IT was a great place, helpful staff. The rooms were a good size and well equiped. We were just overnight very pleased. A bit tricky to figure out how to get into the drive way as the area had changed and the gps muddled things up.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2017

10/10 Excellent

Carl

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

10/10 Excellent

Gerald

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great hospitable pace with excellent breakfast. Thanks
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

10/10 Excellent

Denise & Ken, UK

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Excellent staff, brilliant breakfast, quiet garden
Most warm welcome and the staff were absolutely second to none with nothing being too much trouble. Breakfast choice and service was excellent in a room which pleasantly opened right out to the peaceful garden with pool. The garden and pool area were immaculately maintained and a variety of comfortable seating was available. Free wi-fi was available throughout the property, inclusive of the garden. This was a perfect guest house for the thirteen night stay we required for our voluntary work, but we would have preferred to upgrade to a room within the main house had this been available. There is a cottage alongside the pool in the garden, which seemed to really appeal to small families with young children.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Convenient and comfortable
Stayed here on a business trip or one night. Great location for access to Claremont business centre. Had a very pleasant and productive stay.

10/10 Excellent

Debbee, Orlando, FL

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful Experience
We were given an upgrade to the pool room which was lovely. We ordered dinner there for two nights and was a great value. Food was delicious and fresh. Staff was helpful in booking excursions and breakfast was prepared early on day of departure. They went above and beyond to make our staff a pleasure. Next time we are in Cape Town, we will stay there.

10/10 Excellent

abner

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Convenient, room size adequate
Enjoyable stay, courteous staff and delicious breakfast

8/10 Good

Zamark, johannesburg

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable
Very comfortable, with friendly staff and a great breakfast to boot

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfort with a little extra
Nice touches like chocolates and handmade biscuits to welcome you. Breakfast is wonderful. A very comfortable stay.
The pool

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It exceeded our expectations. Will defi nitely return if we can.

8/10 Good

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Wild does it again
Long standing customer of this facility - always a good experience

8/10 Good

Ignatius

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

8/10 Good

Greytown Vet Servioces, GREYTOWN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY.
MARTINIQUE WAS THE MANAGER AND SHE WAS EXTREMELY FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL.FOUND PARKING FOR US OFF STREET DESPITE NOT EXPECTING THAT.

8/10 Good

Gary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Philip, Boksburg

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Enjoyable one night stay!
One night only, but comfortable and a great little hotel. Staff were helpful and friendly. facilities were well kept and maintained. Gardens were picture perfect.

8/10 Good

JAMES, New York

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great place to stay
I have no complaints Breakfast - to die for, staff very professional and frendly

10/10 Excellent

Martin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Rooms clean, fluffy bedding and owners very friendly and helpful. Breakfast was fantastic. Quiet suburb.

10/10 Excellent

Joseph, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very nice quick stay
We had very quick but nice stay here - the manager was very friendly and showed us the place as we arrived. We stayed here on our way to the airport (it's only 20 mins away), and we were very close to a nice pizza place for the night. They gave us a nice gift as well as we were were on our honeymoon, which was pretty good given the price

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great stay. Beautiful guesthouse, great location.

8/10 Good

CB, New York, NY

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice Bed and Breakfast
Nice Bed and Breakfast with comfortable rooms and a helpful staff.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

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very pleasant stay
Lovely room and very clean. Staff were very pleasant and breakfast was absolutely yummy

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

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Loved my stay at this guesthouse!!
I stayed at Wild Olive for 6 nights and I can't say enough about this guest house! The staff was very nice and accommodating. Both the room I had as well as the house as a whole were pristine clean. The breakfast was amazing and included in the price of your stay. It was continental breakfast style (yogurt, cereal, delicious homemade muffins, fresh fruit, etc.) with the option to order from a small breakfast menu (omelette, porridge, etc.) at no extra cost. The location was great for me since I wanted to stay between Simon's Town and Cape Town. The extra room amenities that were my favorite were the homemade biscuits (small cookies) included on your coffee tray and replenished every day and the heated blanket on the bed as I visited in winter.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

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Pretty good.
Everything was pretty good, staff were all very friendly, breakfast was also very tasty. If I had to pick something that could be improved; I found the room quite cold though, it's a standard drafty not well insulated South African style building. Water pressure for the shower could have been a little stronger.

10/10 Excellent

Wayne, Margate

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Ideal
Very nice although had to park our car on the street. Book ahead as secure parking is limited

8/10 Good

Nicky , East Kent, England

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Nice guest house
Very warm welcome, facilities were fine but could do with updating, which is ongoing. Beautiful gardens and pool .Good breakfast choice. Decent shower and bath. Very comfortable.

8/10 Good

Roelant, Netherlands

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great stay
We stayed for one week with our two daughters, 11 and 13. Our girls loved the pool and we all enjoyed the lovely freshly cooked breakfasts. The rooms were pleasant and well equiped, with the added convenience of free Wifi. For us the location was perfect: 15-20 mins by car from many things like Tablemountain, airport, V&A waterfront etc. Although next to a busy (daytime) road, we found it nice and quiet in the garden after 19:00 or so. In short: excellent place for daytripping in and around Kaapstad.

10/10 Excellent

Anthea, Randburg

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Short and sweet
We were only there for one night, but the staff were friendly and helpful, the room was neat and comfortable, and the breakfast was delicious!