Lighthouse Farm Backpackers Lodge

Location: A1 Oude Molen Eco Village, 100 Alexandra Road, Pinelands, Cape Town, Cape Town, za

Star Rating: 6.5 Stars

Property Type: Lodges

About this Property

Important Information

Policies

Check-in: 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM

Check-out: 11:00 AM

Amenities & Facilities

• Offsite parking discounted rates available
• Guest education on local ecosystems and culture
• Parking
• Non-smoking rooms
• Family rooms
• BBQ facilities
• Luggage storage
• Express check-in/check-out
• Safety deposit box
• Tour desk
• Ironing service
• Car hire
• Darts
• Non-smoking throughout
• Private check-in/check-out
• Shared lounge/TV area
• Board games/puzzles
• Shuttle service (additional charge)
• Concierge service
• Shared kitchen
• Kids' outdoor play equipment
• Outdoor furniture
• Staff adhere to local safety protocols
• Guest rooms disinfected between stays
• Cleaning standards that are effective against Coronavirus
• Physical distancing rules followed
• Hand sanitizer in guest room and key areas
• Cashless payment available
• Fire extinguishers
• First aid kit available
• Sanitized tableware & silverware
• Contactless check-in/check-out
• Invoice provided
• Guests can opt-out any cleaning services during stay
• Shared stationery like menus, pens are removed
• Guest room sealed after cleaning
• Physical distancing in dining areas
• Key access
• Food delivered to guest room
• Process in place to check health of guests
• 24-hour security
• Delivered food - securely covered
• Shopping on site
• Express check-in
• Free wired internet
• Golfing on site
• Self parking (surcharge)
• Offsite parking discounted rates available
• Internet access
• Games
• Housekeeping on request
• Private picnics
• Japanese garden
• Secured parking
• Horse riding nearby
• Hosted evening meal (reserve)
• Charcoal grill
• Guest education on local ecosystems and culture
• Accessible shuttle
• No accessible shuttle
• Accessible train station shuttle
• No accessible train station shuttle

Rooms Available

• Standard Triple Room

  This mixed room consists of four bunk beds, including linen. Guests have access to a shared bathroom (male and female bathrooms are separate), lockers and a fully-equipped self-catering kitchen.

  Max Occupancy: 3 (3 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Hair dryer
  • Refrigerator
  • Toilet
  • Microwave
  • Shared toilet
  • Kitchen
  • Hardwood or parquet floors
  • Electric kettle
  • Oven
  • Stovetop
  • Toaster
  • Barbecue
  • Linen
  • Outdoor furniture
  • Outdoor dining area
  • Entire unit located on ground floor
  • Toilet paper
  • Board games/puzzles
  • Trash cans
  • Socket near the bed
  • Lockers
  • Smoke alarm
  • Fire extinguisher
  • Key access
  • Hand sanitiser

• Basic Room

  1 Double Bed and 2 Twin Beds

  215 sq feet

  
  

  Internet - Free WiFi

  Food & Drink - Shared/communal kitchen access

  Sleep - Bed sheets

  Bathroom - Shared bathroom and towels

  Practical - Desk, safe, and iron/ironing board (on request)

  Comfort - Daily housekeeping

  Need to Know - No rollaway/extra beds available

  Non-Smoking

  Max Occupancy: 4 (4 Adults)

  • Safety deposit box
  • Desk
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Free WiFi
  • No rollaway/extra beds
  • Shared/communal kitchen access
  • Bedsheets provided

• 6-Bed Mixed Dormitory Room

  Guests will find a stovetop, a refrigerator, kitchenware and an oven in the fully equipped kitchen. The dormitory room also provides guests with a barbecue. This dormitory room features a desk, a patio, garden views and a shared bathroom. The unit offers 6 beds.

  Max Occupancy: 1 (1 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Hair dryer
  • Refrigerator
  • Desk
  • Toilet
  • Microwave
  • Shared toilet
  • Kitchen
  • Hardwood or parquet floors
  • Electric kettle
  • Oven
  • Stovetop
  • Toaster
  • Barbecue
  • Linen
  • Outdoor furniture
  • Outdoor dining area
  • Entire unit located on ground floor
  • Toilet paper
  • Board games/puzzles
  • Trash cans
  • Socket near the bed
  • Lockers
  • Smoke alarm
  • Fire extinguisher
  • Key access
  • Hand sanitiser

• Double Room

  This mixed room consists of three bunk beds, including linen. Guests have access to a shared bathroom (male and female bathrooms are separate), lockers and a fully-equipped self-catering kitchen.

  Max Occupancy: 4 (4 Adults)

  • Desk

• Twin Room

  Standard Twin room has one Bunk bed and a sink. All beds are serviced with linen and there is a shared bathroom (male and female bathrooms are separate), lockup lockers for each person and a full self-catering kitchen.

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Hair dryer
  • Refrigerator
  • Desk
  • Toilet
  • Microwave
  • Shared toilet
  • Kitchen
  • Hardwood or parquet floors
  • Electric kettle
  • Oven
  • Stovetop
  • Toaster
  • Barbecue
  • Linen
  • Outdoor furniture
  • Outdoor dining area
  • Entire unit located on ground floor
  • Toilet paper
  • Board games/puzzles
  • Trash cans
  • Socket near the bed
  • Lockers
  • Smoke alarm
  • Fire extinguisher
  • Key access
  • Hand sanitiser

• Double Room

  This room is fully furnished with one comfortable double bed, including linen.Guests have access to a shared bathroom (male and female bathrooms are separate), and a fully operational self-catering kitchen.

  Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)

  • Shower
  • Hair dryer
  • Refrigerator
  • Desk
  • Toilet
  • Microwave
  • Shared toilet
  • Kitchen
  • Hardwood or parquet floors
  • Electric kettle
  • Oven
  • Stovetop
  • Toaster
  • Barbecue
  • Linen
  • Outdoor furniture
  • Outdoor dining area
  • Entire unit located on ground floor
  • Clothes rack
  • Toilet paper
  • Board games/puzzles
  • Trash cans
  • Socket near the bed
  • Smoke alarm
  • Fire extinguisher
  • Key access
  • Hand sanitiser

Guest Reviews

• Nomnga (8/5): - Very friendly host and very safe for family , my daughter really enjoyed her stay Small toilets in ladies room couldn't close door. Uncomfortable. Doesn't look like the pictures
• adriaan (1/5): Verschrikkelijk - Het was geen farm Alles
• CATHerine (7/5): -
• Zenalo (10/5): -
• Tor-Hugne Olsen (7/5): - Very nice personnell. They agreed to be up after midnight to open for me, since I had a late flight arrival!! This is a shared bathroom place so no luxury, but still very good vaue for money.
• Fiona (10/5): - The staff is very friendly a
• Adam (10/5): -
• Basil (5/5): Passable -
• Basil (5/5): Passable - Value for money and great friendly helpful staff
• Percy (7/5): Good - Nice and quiet. Good secure parking. I liked the trees and the unique crafted benches. Nice secluded feel even though you are so close to the suburbs and train station. Would be a nice setting for a group of friends getting together and having a barbecue Value for money. The initial explaining that I have a booking there and that I'm coming to stay there. My thoughts were that they never received my booking. But once that was cleared out it was all good 👍
• Mbhele (1/5): Bad - Firstly it doesn't look like the one they posted on booking.com. Not neat at all poor customer service
• Moosa (10/5): Lighthouse Farm Lodge Stay - Great place to book for short stays. Comfortable, clean and in a safe area. About 10 minute from most areas you'll need to go. Kitchen has all kitchenette you need to make a meal you would cook at home. Also has a close and beautiful view of table mountain, and has a horse stable steps away.
• Thulane (10/5): Exceptional -
• Mathobisa (5/5): Passable -
• Lebogang (5/5): Passable - One of the staff members Q was an excellent host whereas her colleague Angie was an uninviting, rude behavior somebody. Tried greeting with a smile and gave us such a cold shoulder. She must work on her people skills. The place is a bit deceiving from the pictures. It's in a run down area. They need to update the pictures they show on booking.com to give people a true reflection of how it really looks.
• Manvendra (4/5): Disappointing -
• John (8/5): Very good -
• Phumeza (7/5): good - I liked the country environment more friendlier staff member
• Zingiswa (3/5): Poor - Staff treatment Dirty
• Phumeza (8/5): Very good - N/A
• Rob (7/5): Good -
• Marasha (10/5): Exceptional - Very clean. Safe and quiet environment
• Emmanuel (7/5): Good - The staff hospitality. The sharing of kitchen, bathroom and utensils with workers.
• Callum (7/5): Good -
• Dickson Osaro (8/5): Give it a try. - The atmosphere was good and friendly. Staffs were helpful and the lodge is in a secured environment.
• Douglas (6/5): Good spot to stay if you are working in the area - The price and the open space, I also was able to meet local people not so clean, isolated, internet was bad, crowded in the kitchen
• Jeandre (4/5): Disappointing - It is not a farm at all. The surroundings seemed dangerous and it was very noisy.
• Van (6/5): Pleasant - Nice location and swimming pool Staff wasn’t very welcoming
• Promise (7/5): It’s a backpackers nothing fancy but I had good stay - It is clean and the host was friendly Sorry but the surrounding of the area looks a bit like ghost town, It was hot 🥵 we had no fan,and were mosquitoes 🦟
• Auro (10/5): Exceptional -
• Mmankhu (10/5): Exceptional - The Staff and location Nothing much
• Moloko (9/5): Superb -
• Sicetsha (7/5): Good -
• Samra (3/5): Satisfactory - Cleanliness to be honest was the only thing good about this place. The location, facilities and comfort was appalling. NOT ONE DECENT Glass to drink in. A communal toilet and a shower with only a curtain for covering. The place is too pricy. It should be 1500 but they charged R 3000!! For this place. No refund policy which sucks.
• Alice (7/5): Comfortable, quiet, friendly - Beautiful photos Nice kitchen Great scenery Generous / kind owner in Room 11 WIFI was weak, I had to login every 5 minutes
• Rui (8/5): Good visita. Will recomend it tô friends and family coming tô visit - The location was very central for my sons operation. The staff was very a comodidating.
• Regina (4/5): Disappointing -
• Leonardo (10/5): Really enjoyed it will come again. - Owner and staff friendly and very helpfull
• Owen (1/5): Bad -
• Magwaza (1/5): Bad - Nothing very horrible place Everything do not even think about it
• Werner (8/5): Very good - The staff was friendly. Nice outdoor area.
• Norma (1/5): Bad -
• Swartz (1/5): Bad -
• Hendrieka (8/5): Very good - Country style atmosphere My room was near the kitchen and to much noise during sleeping hours
• Wendy (6/5): enjoyed the value but ask guests to speak softly. - location was perfect. a bit noisy at night and early mornings.
• Jane (6/5): Pleasant - Staff very accommodating especially as I had made booking error WiFi promised - not there at all Shared bathroom not clean - basins of other people's pee
• Pontus (3/5): Poor - Cheap place. The kitchen is well equipped, you have everything you need. Some of the areas in this lodge really need a renovation. Showers and toilets are in a bad condition and stupidly built where you open the door towards the toilet. Many small ants in the fridge and on the floor in my room. Not very clean.
• Cédric (4/5): Disappointing -
• Kay (10/5): Safe place to stay. - Very friendly staff. Very nice quiet and safe area. Clean and nice general areas. Sometimes it can be a little difficult to get an uber from there but nothing really to worries about.
• Karima (10/5): Exceptional -
• Clynton (10/5): Quaint and nostalgic - Host was great fun and a true and proper host. The WiFi needs to be upgraded.
• Bilal (1/5): Bad -
• Cathy (1/5): Bad - Nothing Unsafe
• Emelda (2/5): it’s a NO from me! - nothing the dirty floors. the spider webs in the bathroom. the mold on the bathroom ceiling. the dirty bedding , the dirty curtains
• Ceejay (10/5): Exceptional - Absolutely everything. From start to finish The space the nature. Clean and extremely user friendly. I can honestly say if i had known about the place sooner i would have booked it my entire vacation here There was nothing to dislike tje pictures does nlt do the place. Justice i felt so at home and im super happy i found this gem. Angeline explained e erything straightforward and to the point so flippen awesome she does this with her eyes closed and perfectly.
• Albert (1/5): Bad -
• Thabani (9/5): Home away from home - The venue is a home away from home, staff is very friendly. Their rate are very good I didn't like the day I had to leave, I wanted to extend my days but I had to leave..
• Theresa (5/5): Passable - Was situated within reasonable distance to all the sights we wanted to see. Rooms were big ,beds comfortable . Angie was very helpful. Was very noisy, there were school children staying there for two of the nights. The building looks"tired" and could do with a bit of TLC.
• Augustaf (2/5): This is not a farm. There are no open fields with horses. This place is a dump. False advertising. -
• Sharon (10/5): Exceptional -
• Elisma (1/5): Bad - The staff was friendly and showed me around as expected. I decided not to stay after I checked in as they were preparing for a party that night. When I got there the room was not ready yet therefor I did not offload my luggage, admitting I was early. The overall feeling of rundown accommodation that needs upgrade, or the website at booking.com needs to have a good look at the difference between the booking.com advert and the real state of affair. When I returned the keys on Sunday afternoon there was nobody in the office.
• Mabibo (10/5): Exceptional -
• Philip (10/5): Exceptional - Place is save Maybe a upgrade to bathroom
• Rachel (10/5): Exceptional - The place is very clean...Angie she is kind n very much sweet She even offered my daughter corn flakes for breakfast She is a darling that one Nothing actually,besides too much decoration all over the place
• Taryn (8/5): Very good -
• Kp (8/5): Very good - My friend and I needed to work in the city for the weekend and this place was the perfect overnight stay for us. It was close and affordable and in a secured area. I would stay there again for a short trip. There were a lot of children around; I don't know their reason for being there, but due to our reason for staying over it wasn't a problem. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone looking to feel secluded or who want privacy.
• Samantha (9/5): Superb -
• Joey (9/5): Superb -
• Machelm (8/5): Very good - Friendly, helpful staff and fellow guests
• Tauriq (1/5): Bad - Nothing. The service was putried and the staff wasn't very accommodating. The staff
• Verified traveler (6/5): - The place was clean - bedroom, kitchen, lounge and bathrooms. Service - receptionist was friendly and helpful. Noisy - residents made lots of noise in lounge and only quieted down/slept after 11:30pm. Little privacy for showers - to dry and dress oneself, there is only an open area, exposed to all who enter the bathroom. Would be nice to have an enclosed area by the showers e.g. another set of curtains. Also no hooks to hang up clothing or towels if using the showers. Overall good, overnight accommodation.
• Logan (8/5): - It was good especially if you're a backpacker. It was clean and you feel comfortable plus no-one disturbs you. Wasn't really what I was expecting but I was honestly still satisfied. Would definitely want to go again.
• Sylvano (10/5): - Was a great service everyone was very friendly place is clean and tidy had a wonderful night just one thing I'm not very happy the WiFi service was very poor plus u only get a certain amount of data so that's the only minus I would say

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