Parker’s Park Lagoon

Our Beautiful Modern 1 bedroom apartment is on the beach, 10 minutes drive from Cape Town city center. Originally part of a hotel so it comes with all the necessities for a comfortable stay but with a personal touch. Our beach is midway between Cape town center and Bloubergstrand. An amazing spot for surfing and long beach walks, the perfect holiday destination Features include: -Stacking doors that open up whole apartment to a magnificent ocean view -Full kitchen with stove and oven -Coffee lovers have the choice of a Nespresso machine with various coffee pods -The main bedroom has a ceiling fan for hot summer nights -Large bathroom with bath & shower -2 swimming pools with loungers in complex -provided with flat: rusks, cereal, milk, coffee, tea) -Super secure -Safe parking -Full laundry (communal) Our apartment is on the first floor up a little flight of stairs. Guests can access the laundry, surrounding garden and pool area. Parking is situated behind a boomed entrance with security. Visitor parking available. We are available on (Hidden by Airbnb) or phone call at anytime. Noteworthy things in the area: -Leisure Bay Restaurant: The Leisure Bay Hotel has a small restaurant/ bar downstairs from our apartment for a standard breakfast with bottomless filter coffee. The service is very slow, so we only recommend it if you’re in no rush. Currently closed during Covid. -Lagoon beach hotel Restaurant (3min walk): also an option for a breakfast/ lunch. The service is also very slow, so we only recommend it if you’re in no rush. -Wang Thai restaurant is walking distance from flat. Variety of Thai food. Wang Thai, Lagoon Beach, Lagoon Beach Drive, Milnerton GPS: S (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) ″ Tel: (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) Email: (Email hidden by Airbnb) Trading Hours: 12h00 to 22h00 -Long beach walks If you’re up for a long walk: Lagoon beach stretches all the way past Woodbridge Island, Dolphin beach, Sunset beach to Blouberg beach- it takes approx 1,5hrs to walk the whole stretch -Milnerton Market: Opens 8am Saturdays and Sundays -Milnerton Golf Club: beautiful views of Table Mountain from the golf course -Wang Tai restaurant: great Thai food 5min walk away -The Shred Skatepark: the only public indoor skatepark in Cape town. They also have delicious Deluxe coffee and great lunch wraps and toasties -Blowfish Restaurant: excellent sushi and fish dishes with a view over Dolphin Beach blo (Website hidden by Airbnb) -Centre point shopping centre (2km) has a Pick n Pay, liquor store and a Clicks Pharmacy -The Paddocks shopping centre (4.5km) has a Woolies, Spar, clicks, Ocean basket and Simply Asia, Black Angus grill, Col’cacchio pizza -The Table Bay Nature Reserve consists of seven parts: Rietvlei Wetlands, Milnerton Lagoon, Milnerton Beach, Milnerton Racecourse, Zoarvlei Wetlands, Diep River, and the Parklands Fynbos Corridor.This 880-hectare reserve comprises a variety of permanent and seasonal wetlands, and is surrounded by Cape Flats dune strandveld and Cape Flats sand fynbos vegetation.The Rietvlei Wetland is in the floodplain of the Diep River between Milnerton and Table View that drains into Table Bay via the Milnerton Lagoon. The wetland offers a variety of habitats, including a permanent freshwater lake, shallow marshes that flood in winter, reed beds, a river, and an estuarine lagoon with salt marshes that is open to the sea. A strip of coastal dunes separates the reserve from Table Bay. Main entrance is at the southern end of Grey Avenue, Table View (Rietvlei Section) (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) Intaka Island: Bird watching, eco centre and boat rides (Website hidden by Airbnb) -Commodore II shipwreck: The Commodore II was built in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) in Seattle in the United States. She is believed to have featured in the (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) American blockbuster film Mutiny on the Bounty, with Clark Gable. Apart from this, she was also used to ferry coal during World War II. Shortly after, the grandson of President Paul Kruger bought the schooner and sailed to Buenos Aires in Argentina. It was here that her fortunes seemed to take a turn for the worse.When going up the River Plate, the ship was grounded on a mudbank and the damage to the hull took 40 days to repair. The Commodore II also caught fire but fortunately it was extinguished quickly.On her return, disaster struck again when the boat was hit by a heavy storm which left the mast, rigging and sails all severely damaged. Emergency repairs allowed the vessel and crew to safely reach Cape Town, where the ship was stripped and the remains left to the mercy of Milnerton’s breakers. -The bridge: (Woodbridge Island) The bridge dates back to (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) and was built by the Royal Engineers to provide entrance to a cannon trench. It was declared a National Monument by the old National Monuments Council on 17 July (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) -The lighthouse A classic 21 metre-high lighthouse painted white with a little red roof lies in wait in Milnerton.This towering structure was completed in (Phone number hidden by Airbnb) and is located on one of the coastlines known to have wrecked the largest number of ships in the country, with more than 150 ships known to have sunk in the waters along this lighthouse’s shore. -Lagoon Beach clean-up:If it has been raining heavily the rivers deposit large amounts of litter on the beach- there is a beach clean up on the first Saturday of every month. Meet at the Milnerton Lighthouse 10am MyCiti bus stop in Marine Drive which has a bus directly to the city Centre. Uber works well in and around Cape Town