The Turbine Hotel and Spa is a boutique 5 star Hotel in Knysna which offers guests an extra special experience. This boutique hotel in Knysna is situated on Thesen Island which is considered one of the most the prestigious locations on the Garden Route.
The Turbine Hotel and Spa offers 17 suites, six luxury suites, a honeymoon suite and the self-catering Water Club apartment. All suites have individual dcor and art, split extra-large king beds and secured with a card access system. All accommodation at this Knysna hotel is air-conditioned, heating and cooling and is full en-suite with a separate shower and bath, two basins and heated towel rails.
The Turbine Boutique Hotel and Spa offers a variety of facilities to choose from. The Turbine Spa has a wide variety of Spa treatments; massages, luxurious facials, manicures and pedicures to name a few. A flow pool with the deck facing onto the canal, where guests can relax and enjoy the outdoors on the sun loungers.
The conference and function rooms each can seat 20 boardroom and 40 cinema style which are inter-leading for larger functions. Both are equipped with the latest technology and are fully air-conditioned. The Turbine Hotel and Spa was a project which transformed the old power station into a unique 5 star boutique Knysna hotel on the Garden Route.
All the old machinery which was used in this power station has been loving restored and forms an integral part of the hotels aesthetics. Given the heritage status of the power station, most of the primary components were left in position and now form an integral part of the theme of the hotel.
The Turbine Hotel & Spa
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"Disappointed"
09 Jan 2023
By Ken Swettenham
"This is touted as a 5-star hotel but as a seasoned traveller, who has stayed in 5-star hotels around the world, it falls well short of what I would consider 5-star standard. I would rate it 3-stars - 4 at a push. Food and restaurant areas are nice and I celebrated my 60th birthday there, which the staff made to feel very special. Food was good but no better than an average restaurant. For a 5-star hotel, I did expect a little better. However, I had two big problems - the room was tiny! Again, for a hotel rating of 5-stars, one expects a decent room. It was the smallest hotel room that I've stayed in for a long time and as it was meant to be a disabled room (my wife is wheelchair bound), it was totally inadequate. We could barely move the wheelchair around. Secondly, check-out is 11h00 - like most hotels. We finished breakfast at about 10h55 and went to our room to collect our bags to checkout. The room key didn't work. On enquiry at reception, I was rather rudely told that check out is 11h00 and as we hadn't done so, the key cards were cancelled! I waited 30 minutes while the receptionist got "permission" to issue a new card for us to collect our bags! Surely, if one hasn't checked out, a polite phone call from the reception would have been adequate? We felt like naughty schoolchildren not guests of a top hotel. Sadly, when in Knysna again, we will be giving Turbine a miss."
"Beautiful location"
14 Jul 2017
By Gill Cook
"The food was OUTSTANDING. Compliments to the Chef."
