Corridors have displays of artefacts, almost museum quality, providing interest in the corridors,which are in any case relatively short.
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Lift lobbies are set up as if they were miniature theatre sets, each with the wide staircase alternative in an hotel that is only five floors high. Each landing area is different in content, yet manages to keep the same harmonious ambiance. The feel is echoed in the visually busy corridor, with artefacts of the colonisation of the then mostly unoccupied Cape in the 16th century (no disrespect intended to the nomadic Khoi people). Walls are hung with agricultural implements and alongside the room the small doors of the show cases house more precious artefacts from the Dutch and English settlements.
Corridors are generally wide and well lit, and the artefacts and small cases give a sense of theatre even to these often neglected areas. The rooms follow the standard pattern off the corridors, with the bathroom providing the primary source of sound insulation from the corridor, despite the sound deadening effect of the deep pile corridor carpet.
The bedrooms are generously sized, and between the bedroom and the bathroom is a dressing room area, making each bedroom a kind of mini-suite.
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