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You're coming to Cape Town - which some of us in the Southern Hemisphere would say is the most beautiful, efficient and sophisticated city in Africa. Your choice of self catering accommodation in Cape Town will play an important part of your experience of this lovely city.

Things to look for in good quality self catering accommodation in Cape Town are clean and modern furnishings, privacy and a good location.

Most holidaymakers and businessmen have often overlooked Green Point in the past with regards to self catering accommodation in Cape Town.

This area which is located on the western border of Cape Town city and close to the Waterfront is continously being upgraded.

A new showcase sport stadium that will host Cape Town 's 2010 World Cup football games is well on the way to completion with the Green Point Urban Park project bringing fresh and landscaped outdoor amenities into this increasingly prosperous, solidly fashionable part of town.

Up until a few years ago Green Point wasn't really a place people wanted to visit.

A visit to the Traffic Department (which is still located here) to settle parking fines did not endear Green Point to people.

If you were feeling a little gay or a lot gay then The Bronx bar was a reliable meeting place for gentlefolk.

And ladies would stand on display on the corners of streets with staid names such as St George's and Vesperdene.

All these factors made Green Point quite an unsavoury place - at least for tourists when choosing self catering accommodation in Cape Town.

Green Point had lots of character though and through the recent changes in and around it has acquired a bit of grooming and manners too.

Perfectly positioned within 5 minutes of the CBD of Cape Town and on the outskirts of the Waterfront development, developers have targeted Green Point as an ideal area for new developments, densification and renovation.All the new development has resulted in a lot more choice of well-located self catering accommodation in Cape Town.

As one moves west of Cape Town, along Somerset Road, the influence of the aflluent V&A Waterfront cannot be ignored.

The Waterfront Marina has reached saturation point with regards to hotel and residential development - some of the most exclusive and expensive self catering accommodation in Cape Town is found here.

This has resulted in a similiar quality of development in Greenpoint which lies on the V&A Waterfront's southern boundary.

And so the Green Point stretch alongside this has responded with a swathe of glossy and modern apartment blocks and luxury all-suite hotels.

The reason Green Point apartments are an excellent choice for self catering accommodation in Cape Town is that while delivering better value for money they have easy access to all the V&A Waterfont's attrations & facilities.

And of course you get the veneer of Green Point street credibility that fails to penetrate the high-tech Waterfront security net.

Good food outlets, trendy restaurants, delicatessens, coffee shops, a few first floor balcony lounge bars and the massive liquor and wine warehouse, Ultra Liquors, pepper the pavements and add to the unpretentious groove of Green Point.

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