Camps Bay Beach and Other Activities
Camps Bay activities
No need to stay inside your deluxe Camps Bay apartment or villa in Cape Town all day when there are so many activities on offer:
Sports & leisure activities
If picking up a tan is not enough to keep you busy, Camps Bay beach is a popular venue for all manner of sporting activities including volleyball and touch rugby so you can always look to pick up a friendly game with the locals. Otherwise of course there is always an invigorating dip in the cool Atlantic ocean and surfers will find an occasional break on the right side of the beach, although the neighbouring Glen beach is generally a better known and more promising surfing spot. The main coast road is also hugely popular with runners and cyclists, and there is superb coastal scenery awaiting you for many miles beyond Camps Bay.
There are a number of sports clubs in Camps Bay itself, offering activities including tennis, squash and lawn bowls. There is also an excellent Virgin Active leisure centre that visitors can pay to use just 10 minutes away from Camps Bay in Green Point, with a very large range of facilities, including extensive gym and weights rooms, spa, saunas, steam rooms, indoor heated pool, tennis, squash and volley ball courts, as well as classes in aerobics, spinning and yoga.
There is also an Olympic-sized open-air seawater pool and smaller diving pool available for public use on the beachfront promenade in Sea Point.
Walks & hikes
- Spectacular views await hikers conquering any of the Twelve Apostles Mountain hiking trails (ranging from intermediate to challenging) that overlook Camps Bay beach and the Atlantic.
- Take a brisk early-morning walk up Lions Head and enjoy a well-deserved picnic breakfast at the top.
You can also refer to our separate web page of information on the many excellent golf courses that Cape Town and its surrounds have to offer, the closest of which are just 15-20 minutes drive from Camps Bay.
Cape Town is a Mecca for all manner of other sports and leisure enthusiasts with everything available from cycling, mountain biking, paragliding and bungee jumping to kayaking, kite boarding, caged shark diving and much more!
We will help put you in contact with the right people to enable you to enjoy any of the exciting sports and leisure activities close to your Camps Bay apartment or villa.