About 35 minutes north of Cape Town, a private walled estate is set around a single watering hole. Two giraffes live here with zebra, nyala, impala, waterbuck and eland, and your days fall into their rhythm.
Every stay from September 2027 comes with this box. We post it to you, or straight to the person receiving the gift.
For delivery before Christmas, order by 8 December for addresses outside South Africa or by 15 December in South Africa. After that, up to 24 December, we email a digital certificate and the box follows.
Every pool suite has its own terrace, its own pool and its own host. The same person meets you on arrival and soon learns whether you prefer a late breakfast or an early morning on the deck. There is one person to ask for anything, and you will seldom need to.
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The viewing deck looks over the watering hole, and the animals come down to drink when they choose. Whatever you see from the deck happens on their terms.
Your terrace and its pool are a few steps from the bed. By midday the light has moved onto the water, and you read in the shade while the estate goes quiet around you.
A massage after the afternoon heat, then the sauna, the hot tub and the cold plunge. Your host books it for you.
As evening comes, the fires on the water are lit and dinner is served overlooking the watering hole, with Table Mountain darkening on the horizon. Some evenings the giraffes walk down to drink while you eat, and on others they keep to the far side of the estate.
A warning: our sunsets are so beautiful, you might forget to look at the giraffes for a minute.
Artist's impression
A Founding Guest stay is two, three or five nights for two in a pool suite, from USD 1,999. You buy it now and use it any time in the three years after Emberline opens.
Founding Guest stays are on sale now, for visits from September 2027.
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