Overview
About 3 Days in Cape Town
Day 1 is a Cape Town City Tour. We collect you from your hotel and spend the day covering the Table Mountain cable car (weather permitting), the Bo-Kaap, the V&A Waterfront, and the Cape Town city centre with its historic squares and street art. The pace is unhurried — long lunch, coffee stops, time to walk. Guests coming off a long flight often flip Day 1 with Day 2 to have a slower first day.
Day 2 is the Cape Peninsula. This is the classic Cape Town day: south from the city along the Atlantic Seaboard, past Camps Bay and over Chapman's Peak, down to Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope, then across to Boulders Beach to see the African penguins and home via Simon's Town and Muizenberg. Full day, about 250 km of coastline, and one of the great drives in the world.
Day 3 is the Cape Winelands. Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, or both — depending on your appetite for wine. Three or four boutique estates, a long lunch, cellar visits and vineyard walks, over Helshoogte Pass. See our dedicated Winelands pages for detail.
This shape works because it hits the three things every Cape Town visitor comes for — the city and its mountain, the peninsula and its wildlife, and the winelands. It's tight but not rushed. Adding a fourth day is genuinely worthwhile if your dates allow — a whale watching day in Hermanus, a full-day safari at Aquila, a helicopter flight along the peninsula, or a slower food-and-art day.
The whole package is fully private. Your vehicle is a Mercedes-Benz — S-Class or V-Class depending on group size — and your Wanderer guide/chauffeur is with you throughout. We book restaurant reservations, cable car tickets and any activities in advance. Nothing to organise; you just show up.
Pricing is by vehicle, not per person. Two guests cost the same as six for the private-tour portion, which makes this package very good value for couples through to family groups. Hotels are quoted separately based on your choice — see our hotels, apartments and villas pages.