BRUNCH SET Attractive women and affluent men knot around tables; hotel guests gawk from the bar.
Magellan's, a company that specializes in travel products, features a two-page spread on "travel health and hygiene helpers" in its spring catalog, including the Nano UV Scanner ($90), which, according to the catalog, uses ultraviolet light to kill germs on airplane tray tables, hotel bedding and TV remote controls.
All catering to conventions and tourism, all low-wage businesses paying workers from $5.15 an hour, the minimum wage, to $9 an hour for making beds and clearing tables, hotels and restaurants form the essence of the local economy.
The company can book tables, hotels and more, of course.
The Table Bay Hotel Waterfront, 8002 27-11-780-7444; fax: 27-11-780-7701 www.sun-international.com This attractive 329-room hotel, a blend of Victorian and contemporary architecture, is ensconced on the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront.
Luxury: Few large hotels in South Africa can match the standard of service at the elegant 329-room Table Bay Hotel, on Quay 6 at the end of the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, 27-211) 406-5000, fax 27-211) 406-5656, www.suninternational.com/resorts/tablebay.suninternational.com/resorts/tablebay
Otherwise they will think South Africa is the Table Bay Hotel.
'Many of these cooks work at Sun International's Table Bay Hotel where you were staying before coming here,' says Faizal.
BA Holidays - £1,099 Includes BA flights between 2-6 December and B&B at the Table Bay Hotel (book by 12 November).
Luxury: The Table Bay Hotel, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, 27-211) 406-5000, fax 27-211) 406-5767, has 329 rooms in a seven-year-old Victorian reincarnation fronting the Atlantic on Cape Town's colorful harbor.
