At sunset, it is time to express your undying love to your partner or explore Russells on the Port’s list of signature cocktails on Valentines Day.

Russells on the Port is located on the West Coast Way Foodie and Berg Routes.

Russells on the Port is located on the West Coast Way Foodie and Berg Routes.

Russells on the Port is a touch of warm elegance that must be experienced when visiting Port Owen in Velddrif on the Cape West Coast. This is the place to take that romantic getaway and enjoy a cocktail while watching the sunsets over beautiful Berg River.

This gem boasts luxurious en-suite bedrooms with additional accommodation at the guest lodge inclusive of breakfast, WiFi, satellite channels, flat-screen TV, air-conditioning (in most rooms), refrigerator, coffee station, private balcony (river view rooms), swimming pool, secure private parking, 24-hour CCTV and BBQ area.

Best way to woo your partner this Valentine’s day

Book your accommodation at Russells on the Port between 10 – 24 February 2020 and get gin tasting for 2 included.

Dates: Monday 10 – Monday 24 February 2020

Location: Russells on the Port is located on the West Coast Way Foodie and Berg Routes

Contact: 022 783 0158 or [email protected]

Enjoy a delightful romantic experience with your loved one in one of Russells on the Port‘s luxurious en-suite bedrooms, and included with your stay is a gin tasting for 2.

Prepared with love, let’s eat!

The menu includes seafood, lamb rump, crispy pork belly and locally sourced game prepared by the chef, Charl Coetzee. For guests looking for something more casual, there are gourmet wood-fired pizzas and flatbreads to be enjoyed with an ice-cold draught beer or cocktail while soaking up the magnificent view of the Marina teeming with birdlife. 

Food is served on the covered veranda, which boasts a wood-fired pizza oven, or the restaurant which has a fireplace and walls adorned with mementoes collected by owner Russell Foster. The hotel is child-friendly and has two swimming pools.

Their creative cocktail list is bound to satisfy.

An upmarket venue perfects to celebrate an anniversary, wedding, host a party, hold a conference or meeting.

The luxurious en-suite bedroom carefully furnished with an eclectic mix of old-world elegance and beach-side decor. This corner suite has a private balcony providing a 180-degree view of the Port Owen Marina and the Berg River basin.

Facilities available at Russells on the Port:

• Accommodation  • Child-Friendly  • Pool • Complimentary Tea/Coffee • Wheelchair Accessibility (Some Rooms, Bedrooms & Bathrooms)  • Restaurant  •  Conferences • Bar • Small Functions  •  Weddings

Russells on the Port Restaurant

Open 7 Days a Week: Monday – Saturday from 8h00 to 21h30 and Sundays from 8h00 to 19h00.
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Bookings: 022 783 0158 | [email protected] | russellsontheport.co.za

Where: 1 Bronwen Avenue, Port Owen, Velddrif

Other Fun Things To Do in Veldrift:

At low tide take a walk along the Berg River to where it enters St. Helena Bay at Laaiplek. The breakwater and harbour entrance are popular sightseeing spots. You can also see Sandveld houses with their characteristic elongated design and thick walls.

Buy bokkoms, beer and more at Bokkomlaan to the east of the Berg River.

The SA Fishing Museum celebrates local history, nostalgically interweaving the whaling history to pelagic fishing and rock lobster catching. It’s the only one of its kind in the country. The late 1800s building is in De Villiers Street, at the Laaiplek Hotel.

Bird watching on the flamingo bird route which stretches along the West Coast Way. The mud banks of the Berg River have the highest diversity of waders along the Atlantic seaboard. On the beaches are black oystercatchers, terns and gulls feasting on mussels and other shellfish. The marshes have water birds including blue heron, redshank, curlew sandpipers and plovers.
Sailing, St. Helena Bay is the largest on the West Coast and offers the finest sailing conditions on the South African coastline. This is due to its sheltered nature and orientation to the prevailing summer wind. Vasco Da Gama landed here and a monument was erected on the shore by the Portuguese government.

There is also angling and fishing from the beach or boat; golf at the nine-hole golf course, squash, tennis and a bowling green.

Poetic License

Contact: 022 125 0568 or email [email protected]

Charlies Brewhouse

Contact: 022 783 0448  www.charliesbrew.co.za

Russells on the Port

Contact: 022 783 0158 or email [email protected] russellsontheport.co.za

South African Fishing Museum

Contact: 022 783 2531  082 849 9251  [email protected]

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