Stellenbosch is a historic university town in the heart of South Africa’s Cape Winelands, with oak-lined streets, Cape Dutch architecture and hundreds of wine estates nearby. It is an easy trip from Cape Town, and guesthouses in town often cost less than the wine-estate hotels.
Finding cheap rooms in Stellenbosch & the Winelands is easier when you know where to look. We compare live hotel rates across the top booking sites and point you to the neighborhoods where hotels are cheap but the location is still great.
Rooms come in more shapes than hotels — in Stellenbosch & the Winelands you can also compare apartments with kitchens, vacation rentals for families, B&Bs and budget hostels in one search.
Historic streets, restaurants and guesthouses — walkable and lively.
A pretty valley village known for food and wine, with boutique hotels.
A larger Winelands town, often with better-value guesthouses.
Country hotels and cottages on wine farms around town.
A historic Cape Dutch wine estate hotel at the edge of Stellenbosch.
Check rates at Lanzerac Hotel & SpaZoom and pan the map to compare hotel prices by neighborhood; rates come live from the booking sites.
October–April is warm and sunny; February–March is harvest season. Winter (June–August) is cooler and wetter, with lower rates.
Guesthouses in Stellenbosch town and Paarl are usually cheaper than wine-estate hotels.
It is about an hour’s drive from central Cape Town, depending on traffic.
A car helps, but wine tours and hop-on hop-off wine trams make it easy to visit estates without driving.