31 Short Market Street, Cape TownWestern Cape, South Africa
Location/Contact
Location
Website
None (if you know the URL of their website, tell us and we'll add it)
Telephone
+27 21 423 7366
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Details
Luggage Storage:
Available
Internet Computers:
Pay
Lockout:
No Lockout
Curfew:
No Curfew
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Online booking is not offered for this hostel, contact them for availability and reservations (any contact info we have is listed above).
Description
Features
Phones (public or in room)
BBQ
Travel information provided
Currency Exchange
Bar
Food/Restaurant
Lockers
Ratings & Comments
3 Ratings
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Comment by Janine, South African
March 2009
Purple Turtle used to be magic, and now it's lost in space forever! Purple Turtle was my second home everyday after work -- about seven or eight years ago. my friend Laurika and i loved it there -- the smell, the music, happiness. about two years ago, i visited cape town, hooked up with some old friends and decided purple turtle was the place to go, for old times sake. we were all so disappointed. it felt like we just walked into a shabeen in the ghetto's. how did it suddenly just become so low class. it makes me sad. cheap lower class people hanging there now. i would not recommend purple turtle to anyone. you would just end up stressing that you will get robbed. it's never too late to clean up the mess. Purple Turtle used to be the greatest place and can be again.
Comment by suga
February 2007
the hostel is awful. the crowd that hangs out at purple turtle is horrible! i'll never ever go near that place again. my friends all agree with me. there are much better places in long street that offer you a good time!
Comment by Anonymous
November 2004
This place used to be excellent — about seven years ago! The Purple Turtle's become too commercial for my liking. It used to be a very alternative hangout. Now it's lost that atmosphere.
Location/Contact
Purple Turtle used to be magic, and now it's lost in space forever!
3 Ratings
This is an open forum, and unlike other hostel guide websites we don't censor out the negative comments.
We can't validate the legitimacy of comments posted on this site—so take what you read here with a grain of salt.