Trail's End
Location: 41 Worcester Street, Elgin, za
Star Rating: 8.9 Stars
Property Type: Hotels
About this Property
Foothills Paradise at Trail's End
Nestled in the picturesque Elgin Valley, Trail's End offers a perfect blend of tranquility and adventure.
Exciting Activities and Amenities
From water sports facilities to bike rentals, there's never a dull moment at Trail's End. Engage in thrilling activities like horse riding and cycling, ensuring an unforgettable stay.
Convenient Location and Accessibility
Situated just 2.5 km from Elgin Grabouw Country Club and 55 km from Cape Town International Airport, Trail's End provides easy access to nearby attractions and seamless travel arrangements.
Ready to experience the best of Elgin Valley? Book your stay at Trail's End now!
Important Information
Payment before arrival by bank transfer is required. The property will contact you after you book to provide instructions.
Dear visitor, we're currently experiencing drought conditions within this region. Please be aware that certain properties will need to comply with local water usage restrictions.
Please inform of your expected arrival time in advance. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly using the contact details in your confirmation.
Guests under the age of 18 can only check in with a parent or official guardian.
Policies
Check-in: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Check-out: 10:00 AM
Amenities & Facilities
- Health or beauty spa nearby
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Fitness facilities (surcharge)
- Parking
- Non-smoking rooms
- Air conditioning
- Swimming pool
- Restaurant
- Terrace
- Family rooms
- BBQ facilities
- Luggage storage
- Facilities for disabled guests
- Ironing service
- Massage services
- Packed lunches
- Table tennis
- Darts
- Non-smoking throughout
- Private check-in/check-out
- Shared lounge/TV area
- Board games/puzzles
- Shuttle service (additional charge)
- Concierge service
- Wheelchair accessible
- Kid meals
- Kids' outdoor play equipment
- Outdoor furniture
- Coffee Shop on site
- Spa/wellness center services
- Beauty Services
- Manicure
- Pedicure
- Personal trainer
- 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
- Invoice provided
- Guests can opt-out any cleaning services during stay
- Smoke alarms
- Physical distancing in dining areas
- Key access
- CCTV outside property
- Screens / Barriers between staff and guests for safety
- 24-hour security
- Security alarm
- Broadcast Live sport events
- Happy hour
- Aerobics
- Supervised childcare/activities
- Television in common areas
- Free wired internet
- Snack bar/deli
- Golfing on site
- Playground on site
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Beach yoga on site
- Fitness facilities (surcharge)
- Internet access
- Housekeeping on request
- Private picnics
- Wine release events
- Reception hall
- Exercise/lap pool
- Japanese garden
- Secured parking
- Health or beauty spa nearby
- Horse riding nearby
- Swimming nearby
- Water sports equipment
- Bicycle-friendly property
- Charcoal grill
- Vegetarian menu options available
- Bulk dispenser for toiletries
- Accessible shuttle
- No accessible shuttle
Rooms Available
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Double Room with Private Bathroom
The double room provides air conditioning and parquet floors, as well as a private bathroom featuring a bath or a shower.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Air conditioning
- Private bathroom
- Hardwood or parquet floors
- Linen
- Upper floors accessible by stairs only
- Toilet paper
- Pool towels
- Trash cans
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Hand sanitiser
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Family Room with Private Bathroom
The family room features air conditioning and parquet floors, as well as a private bathroom boasting a shower.
Max Occupancy: 3 (3 Adults)
- Shower
- Air conditioning
- Private bathroom
- Hardwood or parquet floors
- Linen
- Upper floors accessible by stairs only
- Toilet paper
- Pool towels
- Trash cans
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Hand sanitiser
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Double Room with Shared Bathroom
This double room has a shared bathroom and parquet floors.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Fan
- Shared toilet
- Hardwood or parquet floors
- Linen
- Entire unit located on ground floor
- Toilet paper
- Pool towels
- Trash cans
- Socket near the bed
- Hand sanitiser
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Family Room with Shared Bathroom
This family room features a shared bathroom and parquet floors. The unit offers 5 beds.
Max Occupancy: 5 (5 Adults)
- Fan
- Shared toilet
- Hardwood or parquet floors
- Linen
- Entire unit located on ground floor
- Toilet paper
- Pool towels
- Trash cans
- Socket near the bed
- Hand sanitiser
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Family Room with Shared Bathroom
This family room features a shared bathroom, and parquet floors.
Max Occupancy: 6 (6 Adults)
- Fan
- Shared toilet
- Hardwood or parquet floors
- Linen
- Entire unit located on ground floor
- Toilet paper
- Pool towels
- Trash cans
- Socket near the bed
- Hand sanitiser
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Family Room with Shared Bathroom
This family room has a shared bathroom and parquet floors. The unit has 4 beds.
Max Occupancy: 4 (4 Adults)
- Fan
- Shared toilet
- Hardwood or parquet floors
- Linen
- Entire unit located on ground floor
- Toilet paper
- Pool towels
- Trash cans
- Socket near the bed
- Hand sanitiser
-
Family Room with Private Bathroom
The family room offers air conditioning and parquet floors, as well as a private bathroom featuring a bath or a shower.
Max Occupancy: 5 (5 Adults)
- Air conditioning
- Private bathroom
- Hardwood or parquet floors
- Linen
- Upper floors accessible by stairs only
- Toilet paper
- Pool towels
- Trash cans
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Hand sanitiser
-
Family Room with Private Bathroom
The family room provides air conditioning and parquet floors, as well as a private bathroom featuring a bath or a shower.
Max Occupancy: 4 (4 Adults)
- Air conditioning
- Private bathroom
- Hardwood or parquet floors
- Linen
- Upper floors accessible by stairs only
- Toilet paper
- Pool towels
- Trash cans
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Hand sanitiser
Guest Reviews
- adri (10/5): wonderful stay - close to where we needed to be and staff is super friendly and helpfull
- Nicola (10/5): Restfull and well- catered! - Clean, friendly, lots to do, amazing staff
- Morton (10/5): -
- Vermaak (10/5): - Friendly staff, cleanliness, location and food was also great.
- geraldine (8/5): -
- Femi (7/5): Nice pit stop - Location and friendly staff
- Hendrik (9/5): Excellent group stay - It was super clean.
The staff were exceptional.
Great atmosphere if you travel with friends. Our room was small with no aircon and a very small window.
- eliolc (5/5): Bel posto per mountain bikers - piscina sporca - Posizione e possibilità di hike Piscina molto sporca. Acqua verdognola e piena di insetti. Nonostante segnalato, non hanno fatto niente
- Celeste (8/5): Great for one night stay. Clean and comfortable - Clean comfortable bed. Friendly staff. Easy going atmosphere.. there is only a communal bathroom but to my surprise very clean and not crowded at all although the hotel was fully booked. The facility and communal areas were comfortable. The pool is a great added benefit. We enjoyed the stay and as family of 4 it was perfect for 1 night.. The breakfast is very plain and anything additional you have to pay. I must have missed the small print but expected a full breakfast service.
The rooms were clean and comfortable but a aircon to cool it down would have been a great added benefit.
- Quintin (10/5): - Heerlijk dicht bij de natuur. Sport in overvloed en prachtige trails Helemaal niets
- Allan (10/5): -
- David (7/5): -
- Cheryl (8/5): Amazing! - Love the little bike track, rooms were comfortable, the lounge area was great and the bar
The staff were helpful and friendly The pool was a bit green and smelled but that does happen with pools
Our lunch took a very long time to make but it was very good.
- Anneli (7/5): -
- Sandra (10/5): Great value and location - Great staff - clean and comfortable rooms
- Louisa (9/5): Met the owner, what a guy! The bike museum is a MUST see! - A hidden gem for families!! Nothing
- Sarah (9/5): - Really helpful and friendly staff. Great breakfast.
- Wendy (10/5): - Rooms were neat and spotless. Friendly and helpful staff. Food were great. Will definitely return.
- Riaan (9/5): -
- Celeste (7/5): Good, practical and easy - The location was excellent for the purposes of our visit! However, I wasn’t there long enough to experience everything that this place has to offer. It is a bit noisy, especially at night when it is bed time.
- Andrea (4/5): - We loved the beautiful nature and greenery. The lunch and braai were absolutely delicious. Unfortunately, the term “hotel” was misleading, as this is more of a backpackers. You only receive a room and must share all other facilities. The photos suggested a more spacious setting, which did not meet our expectations. Due to this, we chose not to stay for the two nights we had booked.
- David (10/5): -
- Bettina (10/5): -
- Gunter (10/5): -
- geraldine (10/5): -
- Urs (8/5): -
- Ernesta (10/5): -
- Allan (10/5): -
- Soraya (10/5): Awesome - Everything was good N/A
- silvio (10/5): - Location..and the people there
- Roland (9/5): - Sehr zuvorkommend und hilfsbereit.
Super zum Biken.
- Nora (10/5): Geniales Hotel für Sportfreaks und sportliche Familien mit kids. Hiking, Trailrunnig, Trailcycling, Swimming- alles unte - Pieter und sein Team sind unheimlich zuvorkommend und hilfsbereit. Pieter hat uns selbst auf die Trails mitgenommen und sein Team hat sich hervorragend um uns gekümmert.
- Mamello (8/5): - The staff, the cleanliness, the bike traill, free breakfast The water temperature in the showers, no side tables or desk in the room
- Saga (10/5): -
- Bernd (10/5): -
- Inge (10/5): The staff is what makes this place extra special. No request is too much for them. The food was amazing. - Rooms are clean and comfortable.
- Hildegard (6/5): -
- Anton (7/5): -
- Melissa (10/5): -
- Sylvia (5/5): -
- Mike (10/5): I’ll be back for sure! - Fantastic and well thought out place that will not only excite the mountain bikers but also trail runners and anyone looking to enjoy some time out in the beautiful countryside of Elgin. The staff are incredible! They remember your name which really stood out for me especially as we were a large group of people. It’s those small things that make you feel at home. Food and coffee was great and the bicycle museum was a really nice surprise and very thorough and interesting.
- Melody Binos (10/5): -
- Sam (10/5): We had the most amazing stay. Thankyou Brenda Hubby and your amazing staff. Getting up super early so we can hit the hi - What a lovely atmosphere. Open spaces and the fire burning it felt so homely like a hidden lodge. Liked everything 😃
- Brent (10/5): Great get away - I really liked the facilities, and I didn't even go for a bike ride.
- Emilie (10/5): - Tout !
L’esprit de famille, très convivial, un personnel au top gentil et à l’écoute, petite balade avec les gérants dans le parc naturel !
Une cuisine délicieuse.
Chambre spacieuse, une literie parfaite !
- Ghalib (8/5): Very good -
- Anthony (10/5): Awesome home away from home. - Everything was just great, Friendly Hosts, Pieter and Brenda. Friendly staff, enjoyable breakfast, lunch and dinner. Great cycling and walking routes. Safe riding trails for my daughter. Very comfortable rooms. Most beautiful and informative bicycle museum in South Africa. Enjoyed a great stay at this establishment. Nothing at all.
- Chris (7/5): pleasant. will definitely visit again. - breakfast was good. shared bathrooms.
- Jon (9/5): Superb -
- Paul (10/5): Exceptional - Great professional and friendly staff. The entire offering is world-class. Delicious well priced food and drinks!
- Johan (10/5): Exceptional -
- Uwe (10/5): Exceptional -
- Isaacs (8/5): Very good -
- Lepore (8/5): Very good -
- Karen (9/5): My son cannot wait to go back - The fire place and fund the kids had Sharing a shower and toilet..
- Larkan (10/5): Exceptional -
- Tracey (8/5): Very good - Staff were amazing. Room was clean and comfortable We were room 13 and it was really noisy
- Lee (10/5): Exceptional -
- Bashier (8/5): Wonderful experience with excellent staff - Spacious and comfortable and very friendly and helpful staff Nothing we were very satisfied
- Angela (7/5): Good -
- Victoria (9/5): We'll be back...again! - All the meals are great value for money. You feel well fed and it's great to come back from some strenuous exercise and have a good meal. Being an open space you can hear the other people in the lounge/dining room area in the background when you are in your room (not too loudly). But they are pretty strict about times of quite and most visitors are respectful so we have not had a problem with it.
- Bishonia (10/5): Ladies Retreat Trail's End - We were a group of 10 ladies. The surrounding is very beautiful. The beds were very comfortable. The rooms are very spacious especially if you are group of friends or family. The lunch and Dinner was very delicious. The staff were very friendly and helpful. We had an opportunity to go and visit the bicycle Museum. We will definitely come and visit again. Nothing at all. All good.
- Corey (10/5): Fantastic hotel of cyclists 🚴 - Wonderful atmosphere and fantastic cycling routes. Onsite restaurant was fantastic. Nothing.
- Louis (9/5): Superb -
- Roelof (10/5): Exceptional -
- Ayesha (9/5): Great accommodation - An absolutely lovely establishment, I definitely want to return with the whole family. I will pick a bedroom away from the shared bathrooms as it does get a bit noisy
- Ibraheem (10/5): Exceptional -
- Tsitsi (9/5): Superb -
- Uwe (9/5): Superb -
- Yolande (8/5): Very good -
- Patricia (8/5): Very good -
- Conradie (9/5): Superb -
- Graham (8/5): Very nice accommodation, friendly professional staff -beds very comfortable, great value for money. - The friendliness of the staff made me felt like you were at home. Food was unreal as always! The music, not good, felt like you were at a funeral. I would suggest you get a SPotify account and play more uplofting music.
- Leigh (10/5): Exceptional - Felt at home from the time we arrived. All the staff we met were amazing too. Everything was perfect. The grilled fish scored a ten out of ten too. Kids loved it too. We look forward to the next visit being longer than just 1 night.
- Geir (10/5): Exceptional -
- Miwaal (10/5): Exceptional -
- Ernesta (10/5): Lovely! - Breakfast was fresh and delicious with a lot of variety (Warm oats, bread, jam, cheese, muesli, muffins, yoghurt, orange juice, coffee, etc.).
Staff are great and the whole ambience is just nice and welcoming - a real haven for outdoor enthusiasts. Nothing
- Gary (8/5): We would certainly book again. - The location is amazing. The facilities totally adequate and a great vibe with the staff and patrons. All good!
- Danie (10/5): Exceptional -
- Kristina (10/5): Exceptional - Trails End Bike Hotel truly feels like a home away from home. The owners and staff are incredibly welcoming, always ready to assist, and go out of their way to make your stay special. Whether you’re a mountain biker, trail runner, or hiker, this place is a paradise—perfectly situated for outdoor enthusiasts looking to explore the trails. Highly recommended!
- Charmaine (9/5): Superb - The staff were great, each one of them.
The location is excellent if you are there for the Xterra or for MTB/trail running trails.
A lot of active things to do to keep the children busy (outdoors).
The food were delicious and nice social vibe in the lounge area in the afternoon/evening.
- Jacques (10/5): Fantastic hospitality from the staff, keep it up! - Nothing to add
- Dave (6/5): Pleasant - Very Good Breakfast No Aircon in the rooms
- Aphiwe (9/5): Awesome home away from home - Was amazing,the food was awesome and service was excellent. Enough activities for the kids Nothing
- Bukelwa (10/5): Get away from city life - The area situated
Rooms, facilities, staff
- Heidi (10/5): Exceptional -
- Andre (10/5): 10/10 👌🏽 🚲 👌🏽 - Awesome place and even better people
- Kerri (8/5): Very good -
- Kerri (8/5): Very good -
- Clayton (8/5): Very good - I loved everything of the stay.
- Nadine (9/5): Comfortable and good for the soul - Excellent condition,well equipped
Clean
Excellent choice for getaway
All about wellness and fitness None
- Van (8/5): Elgin Experience - Beautifull setting, very peacefull, warm and cozy, safe. Super friendly and helpfull staff. Lovely food. Overall a relaxing experience. No complaints
- Marie (8/5): Very good -
- Adele (10/5): Exceptional -
- Saleema (8/5): Very good - Room was easy to access and the staff was helpful and friendly.
- Melinda (10/5): Exceptional -
- Sara (10/5): Amazing atmosphere at Trail’s End - We absolutely loved our stay at Trail’s End! The rooms are great: clean, tidy, large bathrooms, cozy beds. We both rented bikes and In the morning after our first night Pieter showed us a few wonderful biking trails. There are different levels of trails so there is something to do for everyone. We were also able to join for the train race in the weekend with Mike and Luke - an absolute must do if you enjoy biking! A fun addition was the tour in the biking museum which has been set up with great care and an eye for detail: for us it was nice to have some insights in the South African bicycle heroes.
Trail’s end is also a great basis for tasting the wines of Elgin, we would highly recommend going to Oak valley and Paul Clüver (check if you need any reservations).
Trail’s End is very “bruisend” (bubbly) as we say in Dutch. Many guests enjoy the shared area with or without kids - which for us (as we enjoy some livelihood) was quite nice. In the evening it is highly recommended to try the lovely dishes from the chef (try the hake if you enjoy fish and Malva Cake or brownie for the sweet tooth) and several great wines / beers / other drinks can be ordered at the bar. There is enough space for everyone to enjoy the great atmosphere and relax and read a book, play some games or watch soccer on the big screen tv. What worked well for us was that there is a quiet time from 22:00 - as everyone also wakes up early to go biking, hiking or do other activities.
Lastly but not the least important: the staff is superfriendly, it is visible everyone enjoys working there and this gives a great energy to Trail’s End.
Overall a great place to escape the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy some challenging mountain bike trails, good wine and laughs with other guests & staff. Unfortunately we don’t live in South Africa but next time we visit we will definitely come back to Trail’s End. Everything was perfect!
- Lizandre (8/5): Family holiday - The staff was great , when we had any requests or concerns they tried their best to fulfill it.
The breakfast each morning was fantastic, although it was only cold / preserved things it was filling and the buffet style was great.
The temperature of the pool water was really great, not cold at all, I could swim in the evening late 😁
Because we wanted self - catering, we were moved to the cottage on our last day, we wish we could have been moved sooner as it would have made our stay even better!
The railway market was a winner 🏆. The price for the facilities/ stay was not worth it at all. There was a shared bathroom, which I did not know meant that we're sharing with the rest of the residents.
We could not have our own food in the eating area, it had to be from the restaurant and we could not afford to eat from the restaurant, so we had to drive out daily to eat something in the town.
The activities without cost on premises were limited , everything else we needed to pay for,
The facility is great if you're stacked with money.
- Victor (8/5): Very good -
- Yolandie (10/5): Exceptional staff, exceptional stay and extremely hospitable owners. - Everythung about this space is awesome. Even though it's more bicycle hostel then hotel, it was o e of the best communal spaces I have stayed at in a long time. N/A
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