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Humewood Hotel is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Port Elizabeth, offering many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
For those interested in checking out popular landmarks while visiting Port Elizabeth, Humewood Hotel is located a short distance from Feather Market Centre (1.5 mi) and Fort Frederick (1.6 mi).
The rooms offer air conditioning, a seating area, and a desk, and getting online is possible, as free wifi is available, allowing you to rest and refresh with ease.
Humewood Hotel features 24 hour front desk and baggage storage. In addition, as a valued Humewood Hotel guest, you can enjoy free breakfast that is available on-site. Guests arriving by vehicle have access to free parking.
If you like Spanish restaurants, Humewood Hotel is conveniently located near Todos Locos.
Plus, during your trip, don't forget to check out a historic site, such as Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial.
Star ratings are intended to indicate the general level of features, amenities, and services to expect. This property is classified according to TGCSA - Tourism Grading Council of South Africa.
HOTEL STYLE
Classic
Historic Hotel
Languages Spoken
English, Afrikaans
Location
33 Beach Road Humewood, Port Elizabeth 6001 South Africa
Humewood Hotel
3.7 reviews
Getting there
Somewhat walkable
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good hotel if you are an older traveller, not for young people. food, not a big selection but it was all VERY good. dining room very intimate. there is a fair amount of traffic that passes the hotel. the saga rep. melanie wilson was amazing she would do any thing to help you with no hesitation. go on the apple express good value for money. i do recommend going on the schotia safari (book it privately over the internet its cheaper) port elizabeth is not a pretty city but very interesting not much entertainment at night
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Date of stay: April 2009
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This Hotel is well situated on the beach front of Port Elizabeth close to several entertainment venues and a good swimming pool complex. The road between the hotel and the beach can be busy and noisy much of the daytime and various night clubs are in the vicinity thus the road noise can continue into the night.
The hotel facilities are limited, especially lounge space, but overall it has an attractive character worthy of its nearly 100 years of existence. It is used by Saga Holidays extensively and they have their own small lounge. There is limited entertainment some evenings.
The restaurant and food are of qood quality with a nice range of dishes and variety during the week.
We had a modernised bedroom which was comfortable and plenty of wardrobe and drawer space. As it was on the front of the hotel, closing of the windows was essential for the noise but the air-conditioning was satisfactory.
There was a serious problem concerning the digital room safes which I have reported on separately in the PE forum to see if others have had similar difficulties and lost valuables as a consequence. It is perhaps worth asking for one of the Reception safe deposit boxes where a two key security operates.
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Date of stay: November 2008
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Trip type: Travelled with friends
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nice hotel, old standard, extremely expensive internet; perfect location just across the beach and close to a lot of restaurants and bars
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Date of stay: March 2010Trip type: Travelled solo
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The Rough Guide suggestion stood for the light blue painted facade and the prominence along the Beach Road, nothing more. The Beach across is a risky ambulatory exercise when it gets dark. Busy thoroughgare location on the less salubrious part of the town and most of all the noise of the avenue permeated the night. It could be interesting in Hoppetrsque terms but we were there for a one night stay as long-distance roadie travellers. Exceptional receptionist because of whom we decided to stay. Full marks on that. Gloomy rooms despite the picture attached and the bathroom dysfunctional of another era.
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Date of stay: July 2024
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Trip type: Travelled with friends
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I love Chris Issac's song the Blue Hotel, so after seeing this blue hotel I thought I would take my kids for a cold beer on a hot day at the Blue Hotel on that awesome deck..... No chairs on the deck, and nowhere on this hotel does it say that it is now halal. No Beers at an empty bar. OK, we will have a cappuccino - the machine is broken, Ok we will have a milkshake - the machine is broken. Ok, filter coffee it was ....cold and weak. What a pity such a stunning little hotel with an awesome deck and view.......will never return
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Date of stay: January 2023
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I came to visit Port Elizabeth to have my bachelorette party because this is where I am from. It is this Saturday.
I have stayed at the Humewood hotel everyday for 4 days so far. I intended on staying in Port Elizabeth for quite a while as I am from Dublin and came back to SA to get married and wait for things to settle down in Europe so I was planning to stay at whichever hotel I first stayed at until we were to return to Dublin.
My hen party is on Saturday and some of my family and friends were to come to the hotel I am staying at and we were to have breakfast together the following morning and spend some time together until I left.
So the customer service with some lady with tattoos on her arm By the name of Michelle.... unfortunately lost the hotel thousands in accommodation.
I will definitely stick I what I know. I’m sure even F1 would have better customer service than this.
The slogan of the hotel is the friendliest hotel in the friendliest city....that’s a lie.
Michelle has given this place a bad name.
I urge anybody who looks for incredible customer service or a short term home to learn from my mistakes.
I will not be returning and my experience at this hotel will be something I am vocal about.
I don’t even want to spend the night here even though I paid for it.
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Date of stay: March 2020Trip type: Travelled solo
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Wow, wow, wow. Amazing service, breakfast is excellent and dinner is epic. The hotel may be 3 star but the service is better than 5 stars. The staff are friendly, helpful and professional. The hotel is directly opposite Kong’s beach and the pools and public transport. Many many restaurants to choose from in the area. Loved it. Thank you
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Date of stay: January 2020Trip type: Travelled with family
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We had only booked one night because we would arrive from the AirPort and go to Knysna the next day. We expected a basic accomodation that would be decent and perfect for one night. However we were shockend about the condition of the hotel. It is so outdated that everything looks filter as well. The wall covering and the carpet are full of old stains and for example the cusions in the chairs in the hotel room were all greyish from old age. We were very disappointed in this hotel. From the outside it looks very nice. On the veranda you only smell airpolution because of the cars. You also sit on cheap plastic chairs. Indoors it is so warm we felt like we were in an elderly home.
Positive pointes were the parking, the WiFi (accessible in the entire hotel), the breakfast buffet and the persononel was friendly.
However, I would not ever come here again. A tip for the owner, please restore the hotel and freshen up the rooms!
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Date of stay: December 2014
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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In any coastal city that attracts tourists this hotel would be upmarket and service orientated, taking full advantage of its great location, but in this case it's quite the opposite. The building is old and needs a face-lift; the rooms are very large but a bit sad; but the worst aspect is the attitude of the manageress and general manager. Quite gobsmackingly poor in fact. I arrived with a large group of tourists and check-in was reasonably ok although a more streamlined system would be easy enough to implement (making 35 people each sign a document at one table and then go to the desk to fetch their keys doesn't make much sense - other hotels have better systems).
We asked for the wifi password and were told there is no wifi. On questioning this, we were told it is 'down' and has been so for the past 2 days. No details of 'down' were given. My group was unhappy but they all left to go to their rooms. While I was still at the front desk another guest arrived, asked for help with wifi on his phone, and was shown what to do ... off he went, happily using wifi! I was stunned and asked why we were told there was none available. Reply from the disinterested manageress was that it is 'not working very well but does sometimes work'. I was livid and asked why we were not told this while everyone was still around, and why we were not given the option of at least trying. No reaction except to repeat herself. I started to lose my cool because now all my clients were gone and I would have to go and tell each and every one of them that they can still try. No reaction, no offer to assist - the manageress actually walked away and went to stand in the street to admire someone's motorbike! I asked for the wifi password. Turns out they give each person a different voucher number ... but they didn't have enough vouchers printed for my entire group. I took what they had and was told the voucher number isn't printed properly, needs to be punched in without one of the characters shown on the voucher ... more complications, especially awkward for foreigners. I was told they would print more vouchers asap ... this they did, with the same extra, unneeded, character as on all the others. Basically, slapdash incompetence.
Eventually, I tried to reach my own room ... couldn't find it for ages because it is NOT where it is supposed to be according to the signs on the relevant floor outside the lift. Apparently staff have requested management several times to correct the sign but they don't do it. Throughout all this, the manageress was completely disinterested and just left it to her front-desk staff to deal with everything.
The next morning I encountered the GM in the breakfast room (after he had ignored me when I asked the front desk to tell him I would like a chat) and related the poor service of the day before. All I received were excuses, disguised as reasons. In South Africa we understand that wifi is a problem sometimes, really we do, so it's not the lack of wifi that we were unhappy about, it is the poor attitude of management and the complete disinterest in trying to resolve issues.
The front-desk gentleman who was trying his best to deliver decent services, despite being hampered by his manager at every turn, was Johnathan - a wonderful chap who deserves to be in a position of management, and preferably in a better establishment. Restaurant staff and porters were lovely, friendly, helpful. Basically, all staff are being let down by poor management.
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Date of stay: January 2017
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Trip type: Travelled on business
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After a very exhausting day in PE, we were welcomed by the friendly staff at the reception, who made us feel so at home. We had a wonderful room - clean, spacious and very comfortable. We were served a tasty dinner in the dining room by friendly staff. Breakfast was enjoyed on the patio with a wonderful view of the sea. No hesitation about returning. Will certainly recommend this Hotel.
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Date of stay: September 2018
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:Â Overlooking the sea
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Good morning, we are 1.5km from Hobie beach and yes we have a family room that can accommodate 5 people, subject to availability (no dates listed), and yes we can accommodate the couple in a second room, kind regards
There are more places to choose from in the Port Elizabeth area.
LOCATION
South AfricaEastern CapePort Elizabeth
NUMBER OF ROOMS
68
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Are there any historical sites close to Humewood Hotel?
Many travellers enjoy visiting Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial (4.5 km), Old Post Office Building (2.4 km), and The Prince Alfred's Guard Drill Hall (2.7 km).
