Ocean Eleven
Hotel in Hermanus

Hermanus Guest House -Ocean Eleven offers luxury 5 star guest house accommodation with superb land based whale watching in Hermanus, Western Cape.

South Africa Accommodation Directory A rapidly growing directory of South African accommodation establishments in various categories, provinces and regions. Repeatedly awarded best small luxury hotel in SA and a Member of the Leading Independent Hotels of Southern Africa. Discover our wine route, art route, speciality shops and pamper boutiques. Escape to nature and breathe the champagne air along our spectacular cliff paths. Meet the world’s only Whale Crier as he alerts you to the whereabouts of the whales by blowing his kelp horn. Ocean Eleven boasts beautifully appointed rooms that all have an all-embracing sea view over Walker Bay. The main house of Ocean Eleven was built with all the high ceilings, tall windows and teak floors that made colonial architecture so utterly elegant. With over 25 years of experience in fishing the reef waters in and around Hermanus as well as Yellowfin and Longfin (albacore) Tuna fishing for the more adventurous fisherman. Whale Museum Daily at 10:00 and 15:00 an audio-visual presentation is given at the Whale Museum, where one is taken below the surface to a face-to-face encounter with the visiting Southern Right whales. De Wet’s Photo Museum This picturesque and historic cottage was once the school house situated near the Dutch Reformed church in Westcliff. The sepia coloured photographic exhibition it houses takes one on a journey through time to when Hermanus was a quaint fishing village. A herd of wild horses is known to roam free in the marshlands at the Bot River lagoon area. A visit to the old mill or the mountain on the Beaumont Wine Farm offers amazing hiking trails in the overberg. Just outside of Stanford, you will find Walkerbay vineyard & Birkenhead brewery, the first wine and brewing estate in the Southern Hemisphere. Panthera Africa, a non-profit company and environmentally friendly sanctuary for any captive bred big cats, where they will be protected and prosper for the rest of their lives, as well as the Kleinriver Cheese farm, renowned for their cheeses and picnics. Considered the great white shark capital of the world. Plaques of the Birkenhead shipwreck depict the rock where it foundered. It is located on the southern edge of the village of L'Agulhas, in the Agulhas National Park, the light is operated by Transnet National Ports Authority.