The Manor House at Fancourt has been announced a winner in the 2016 Traveller’s Choice Awards.
The Manor House was ranked 13th of the 25 top Luxury Hotels in South Africa category, placing it firmly on a ‘must-do list’ for travellers. This is in fact, the second award that The Manor House has received of late, having also won the title of “Africa’s Best Romantic Hotel” at the World Boutique Hotel awards in late 2015.
“Our daily focus at The Manor House is to deliver a superior service, in the luxury setting of the hotel, and an accolade such as this is a well-received validation of the standard we strive to achieve.Receiving such recognition is indeed a great honour because it comes directly from our guests and so is in no way contrived, just good honest opinions from satisfied clients,” remarks Georgie Davidson, CEO of Fancourt.
Small and intimate yet intensely stylish, this classical, 19th-century hotel is the crown of the Fancourt Estate. With just 18 beautiful, individually decorated suites, access to Fancourt’s superbly decadent spa and three 18-hole golf courses of which The Links is the best in the country, this boutique property is the perfect base from which to explore the highlights of South Africa’s famed Garden Route.
As a South African National Monument, The Manor House was originally built in 1859 and owned by Henry Fancourt White, the engineer who supervised the construction of the Montagu Pass stretching from the city of George over the Outeniqua mountain range to the town of Oudtshoorn.
About Fancourt:
• Fancourt is a global landmark for business, leisure and golfing travel but its gradual expansion can be traced back to the establishment of the Manor House by its first custodian, Henry Fancourt White in the late 1880’s. The estate was transformed into a hotel and golfing destination in 1989.
• Today Fancourt is owned Dr and Mrs Plattner, with award-winning golf courses and unparalleled service offerings, against the backdrop of the ever-present Outeniqua mountain range.
• Fancourt has three 18-hole golf courses (Montagu, Outeniqua and The Links) situated on the resort and all ranked in the Top 20 in South Africa. The Links is currently No. 1 in South Africa (Golf Digest Rankings 2014/15) and was ranked 34th in the world in 2014 by Golf Digest USA.
• The resort has two accommodation offerings:
• Fancourt Hotel – 5-star hotel with 115 rooms
• The Manor House – a 5-star boutique hotel with eighteen suites all offering personalised, butler-style service.
• Fancourt is located in George, part of the captivating Garden Route region in the Western Cape of South Africa. It stretches for 400 km along large expanses of panoramic Indian Ocean beaches, with breathtakingly beautiful mountain ranges and natural forests. The Garden Route was voted the sixth best coastal drive in the world by Virtual Tourist.
