The gritty, regenerating former industrial quarter east of the centre — street art, design studios, craft breweries, hip restaurants and the famous weekend food market at the Old Biscuit Mill. Creative, edgy and buzzing (and rapidly gentrifying), a short ride from the centre; the base for foodies and the arts crowd. Stay street-smart.
A look around
What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.
€90–180
typical per night in South Africa
The sensible middle
Typical prices for Cape Town — neither steal nor splurge.
Where it sits
The circle is Woodstock and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- Bo-Kaap11 min taxi3.7 km
- The V&A Waterfront12 min taxi4.0 km
- Table Mountain17 min taxi5.6 km
- Lion's Head hike18 min taxi5.9 km
- Camps Bay & Clifton (beach)22 min taxi7.3 km
- Camps Bay & Clifton beaches22 min taxi7.3 km
- Robben Island47 min taxi15.5 km
- Boulders Beach penguins90 min taxi30.1 km
- Cape Point & the Cape of Good Hope144 min taxi48.0 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 12.Cape Malay food — Cape Town's distinctive cuisine, born in the Bo-Kaap — fragrant, mildly spiced curries, bobotie (spiced mince with an egg topping), samoosas and koeksisters, a legacy of the Cape's Southeast Asian and African heritage. Take a cooking class in the Bo-Kaap, or eat at a traditional restaurant; warm, comforting and utterly unique to the Cape.
- 14.The Old Biscuit Mill market — Woodstock's famous Saturday-morning food-and-design market (the Neighbourgoods Market) at the Old Biscuit Mill — artisan food stalls, craft beer, live music and a hip, buzzing crowd, amid the street art and design studios of the regenerated quarter. The tastiest, trendiest morning in the city; go early and hungry.
When are you staying?
Booking.com & Airbnb open searched to Woodstock; flights via Google Flights.