My girlfriend and I stayed at Planet Africa back in October for 5 nights. We found it to be a good base for exploring Cape Town and the area around the cape, conveniently located outside of the city centre in the upper-scale area of Sea Point.

Location wise, the Sea Point is one of the better, safer neighborhoods in Cape Town. The hotel is a couple minutes walk to the sea front and pretty close to the nice beaches of Clifton and Camp's Bay. There are a few good restaurants within walking distance of the hotel and a supermarket, especially the well-known La Parla (excellent seafood) and a pretty good cafe called New York Bagel (or something like that).

As far as the hotel goes, the entire place was recently renovated and had a new, clean feel to it. This, along with the game reserve lodge decore, make the hotel feel more themematic and less budget. Don't expect the Ritz from the rooms, though - they are well decorated and quite clean, but very basic. We had an Okavango Suite that was 'European' in size - the large canopy bed (with TV mounted on top bar) consumes the room, leaving a small amount of space to manouver around it. Oddly enough, the bathroom is huge, about the size of the bedroom, and comes with a nice rainforest-style shower - excellent pressure! The included breakfast was surprisingly good and more than you usually get at more upscale hotels.

All in all, this is an excellent budget hotel without the economy feel - well worth the money in a city where safe, decent accomodation is not cheap.