Victoria and Alfred Waterfront - Alfred Mall
Something for Everyone at the Waterfront
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The Waterfront is an area of stores and restaurants where you can spend an hour or a day. From there you can travel to Robben Island, take a variety of boat tours, and even tour the area in a helicopter. The Two Oceans Aquarium is just three blocks inland.Shopping includes a 3 story modern mall that has a wide variety of stores and restaurants. There is even a large grocery. There are many stores along the waterfront, selling souvenirs, clothes, and needed supplies. You will find several banks here and ATM machines.You can eat in the food court, dockside (I ecommend ‘Fisherman‘s Choice‘, south of the big mall), or in a cafe. The nicest part f the waterfront is the local performers showing off their abilities. During the early evening...
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From journal Wonderful Cape Town
Best of IgoUgoVictoria & Alfred Waterfront
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My arrival in Cape Town put me in the center of a fairytale. As my ship glided into the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront we were greeted by children on a ferry hurrying off to school, sea lions floating lazily in the water, yachts racing in the distance, and Table Mountain beckoning us to come closer. I couldn’t help to think that I was in Disneyland. The waterfront has a plasticness to it a sense that things appear happier then the are.The waterfront offers a multitude of activates everywhere you turn, and by the off chance that you get bored I suggest just opening your eyes. Everywhere I went there were performers on the street singing, dancing, and just having fun. There energy is intoxicating. Shops line the street and lead up to a huge...
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From journal Exploring the Cape
Best of IgoUgoShopping and Eating at the Waterfront Area
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The Waterfront area is located on the ocean coast, as you may expect from the name. Here you will find shopping malls, places to eat, and local bands to watch.The shopping is not much different than what you see in an American shopping mall, and in fact, there are many stores one might recognize, including an Apple computer store. There are, however, many South African souvenir shops, but most items are very overpriced and the items can be found cheaper at actual tourist attractions.I found the Waterfront a nice area to walk around without being bugged by beggars, like you have to deal with at the Green Market. I also enjoyed stopping and listening to the local bands playing at night. Most bands are selling their CDs for around 100 Rand...
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From journal Cape Town: First World to Third World
Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
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Cape Town is a large and bustling city that has the feel of San Francisco. The waterfront area is an attraction all in itself with museums, shopping galore, and restaurant choices for every taste and pocketbook. The mall has major retailers, as well as specialty shops with South African treasures and merchandise. You can view Table Mountain from the outside walks of the V&A; Mall or watch boats bustling in and out of the harbor. We noted that many of the major retailers are different than what you most often see in the US and Europe. We are not generally mall rats, but we managed to walk the long indoor corridors for hours. It is a well-lighted mall with wide walks. There are squares around the mall where there is often entertainment...
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From journal South African Magic
Waterfront
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Heading down to the Victoria and Alfred waterfront from our hotel was a quick 5-minute taxi ride. When pulling up, it looks like a regular shopping mall you would find anywhere in the US. The inside of the mall is also very similar, just different brands and stores, but once outside, it's a different story. As you walk outside, you are greeted by the Cape Town harbor, with spectacular views of Table Mountain and the Atlantic Ocean. There are also a lot of stores outside, though most are all different types of restaurants. On the deck, there is always some kind of entertainment going on, from magic shows to the ever-popular Zulu gumboot dancers. Hearing them sing and dance brought tears to my eyes. Coming from south Africa, it just reminded...
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From journal Back To My African Roots
Best of IgoUgoVictoria & Alfred Waterfront
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Cape Town’s successful waterfront project was named after the son of Queen Victoria. In 1860, a young Prince Alfred initiated the construction of the first breakwater in stormy Table Bay by toppling a load of rocks that had been excavated from the sea floor into the water. The Alfred Basin, which was subsequently created, successfully protected visiting ships from the powerful gales howling around the cape in winter that had previously caused an alarming number of vessels to flounder.
The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, or V&A, is a shopper’s haven, offering designer boutiques and others selling quirky hand-painted clothing, health and beauty products, home wares, and specialty gifts. There are also over 40 ethnically diverse food...
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From journal Two Oceans ~ One Hope
Best of IgoUgoV&A; Waterfront
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In the early 1970s, the Capetonians wanted more extensive use of the city's historic harbour area, laid in the 1860s when Prince Alfred (Victoria's second son) symbolically tipped the first load of stone into the sea to start off construction on the port which was to bear his name -- it wasn't long before the expansion of trade routes to the East had transformed the city and discovery of gold and diamonds meant that the first section of harbour, the Alfred Basin, needed to be extended, and the Victoria Basin was added on by 1920.
The area is still notable for its outstanding heritage buildings, retaining some of the charm of its Victorian industrial architecture and giving you a feel for the scale of a harbour built for sail and the...
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From journal Cape Town Pt 1 - City by the sea
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
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Situated between Robben Island and Table Mountain in the heart of Cape Town's working harbour, the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront is more than just a mere mall, it has become South Africa's most visited destination.
Set against a backdrop of magnificent sea and mountain views, exciting shopping and entertainment venues are intermingled with imaginative office locations, world-class hotels and luxury apartments in the residential marina.
Whether it is Balducci's you savor, or a taste of home in KFC, there are 15 fastfood or takeaway spots and over 35 restaurants, and there is bound to be something to satiate your appetite.
Do stop to have a look at the seals. There are also several cruise lines that operate day trips out of the...
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From journal A piece of paradise
Victoria Wharf
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The Victoria Wharf is a glitzy high-end mall that actually connects (at the ritzier end) to the second floor of the Table Bay Hotel. The mall is on two floors and is enormous. While it doesn't have any big department stores it does offer many name brand shops (both South African name brand and from other places in the world). There are also numerous restaurants (both fast food and fine dining), wine shops, photo places, coffee shops, pharmacies, a grocery store, two movie theaters (one with Hollywood blockbusters and one with independent non-American films), and numerous shops selling everything you could imagine. Things are of course at the highest price possible, but since the devaluation of the rand, it should be affordable to...
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From journal Eating & Sleeping on the Waterfront
Best of IgoUgoVictoria & Alfred Waterfront
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For visitors to Cape Town the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront is the focus, an intermingling of its historic and useful past and modern developments aimed particularly at the increasing hordes of tourists. Fishing boats contrast with busking entertainers, tugboats with trendy restored warehouses, seals lolling on the jetty with bustling crowds, glitzy restaurants with construction cranes towering overhead. Dominating the backdrop is the domineering Table Mountain, its spectacular flat top often shrouded in hovering clouds.
A great area for wandering and shopping, the Waterfront area is also home to a plethora of restaurants and cafes many featuring local seafood on the menus. Many have verandahs which look out over the water.No matter...
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From journal Cape Town Highlights
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