Situated at a midpoint between Cape Town and the Garden Route on Route 62, the road voted in a CNN survey as one of the worlds finest road trip routes, the Karoo Art Hotel provides for an inspirational story driven stop over. Situated in a quiet road in a Klein Karoo village seemingly in the middle of nowhere one is immediately surprised to be stepping into a high end creative commitment to many arts: the art of a karoo kitchen, the art of local sourcing, the art of writing, painting, drawing. Above all the art of the proper way of doing things. 

The hotel has 17 rooms each with a different theme. Many are to artists others have links to the hotel owners and restorers Rick & Sue Melvill. Among many surprises will be the discovery of an operating Bioscope up in the beams above the hotel’s historic ballroom, a working anthracite driven Aga in the breakfast room, an invitation to join the hotel owners in their daily morning swim and meditation ritual in the Tradow Pass, a restored and very much alive pianola in the dining room, Richard Wilson the pianist in the bar, a dog menu (two of the garden rooms are dog friendly), a woodfired oven turning out the best sourdough this side of Cape Town in the coffee room, a map room to break you from the bonds of GPS, the unexpected surprise of an internationally rated single malt whisky and world award winning brandy distilled in the local area.

For those who understand the difference between being merely a tourist vs a traveler the Karoo Art Hotel stands apart. See the Trip Advisor reviews .