THE BIG - Luxury Backpackers

Ask around the local hospitality scene and THE BIG - Luxury Backpackers keeps surfacing. A hostel in Green Point that has been gathering momentum lately. The reasonable location score reflects what guests actually feel on arrival, a short ride from the main sights, with the kind of rhythm a city traveller tends to…

Ask around the local hospitality scene and THE BIG - Luxury Backpackers keeps surfacing. A hostel in Green Point that has been gathering momentum lately. The reasonable location score reflects what guests actually feel on arrival, a short ride from the main sights, with the kind of rhythm a city traveller tends to want. Rooms feel modest; the touches travellers mention most are reliable wi-fi and on-site parking, and the comfort feedback has been uneven. There's a particular atmosphere to the place, neither overdesigned nor neglected. Pull the review pages apart and you find around 930 reviews, with a genuinely glowing consensus that's hard to engineer. Reputation has held up across enough stays to mean something. Expect to pay something in the region of €31 a night, a strong-value entry on the board, especially when stacked against nearby alternatives. The honest read on THE BIG - Luxury Backpackers is that it deserves a side-by-side look against the bigger Cape Town names rather than a headline of its own.