Table Mountain and Robben Island Tour, Hotel Pickup included
Cape Town, South Africa
- 8 hours (approx.)
- Pickup offered
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
What's Included
- Robben Island ferry and Museum tickets
- Hotel Pickup and drop off
- English Tourist guide
- Comfortable Transportation
- Table Mountain Cable car ticketsZAR490.00 per person
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Pickup details
Please send us your Hotel address where we need to pick you up.
Operating hours.7:30 am
Itinerary
1
Table Mountain
2 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included
2
Robben Island Museum
4 hours • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infants must sit on laps
- Most travelers can participate
- Please note that this tour is weather depending.
- Robben Island tour may be cancelled in the events of bad weather/strong sea current
- You will be allowed to reschedule if the tour is cancelled due to bad weather
- You can only reschedule to the next available date, there is no guarantee to rescheduling to the prefered date. This depends on the availability of the Robben Island tickets
- Table Mountain can be closed due to strong wind. An alternative activity will be suggested in this instance.
- No refund in the event the Table Mountain is cloudy
- This tour will either start in Table Mountain or Robben Island, depending on the weather, sea current or availability of Robben Island tickets
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 25 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
3.9
based on 23 reviews
Wairimu_M, Nov 2025
There is no tour here, you are just paying for the driver to drop you off at the Ferry, which you can take an uber for. Also, I found my driver cold and distant, he just focused on talking to the other passengers who were South African, and ignored me.
Wynne_B, Nov 2025
This was a great experience but make sure you buy fast track tickets for Table Mountain. Getting the aerial car is challenging but once you are past that it is wonderful. The car has a 360 degree rotating floor so you have a chance to see everything going up. The views from mountain should not be missed! Robben Island was moving and the stores should not be forgotten. So much history in Cape Town. Yamelka was, open and took such good care of us. He put in a very long day to make sure we saw everything. He made the day for us. I highly recommend this tour and Yamelka as your guide
AliceDdu_M, Oct 2025
It was a great experience. Our tour guide Samora was the best. He was very friendly and helpful. He picked us up at our hotel on time to our boat to the Island. It was wonderful. The boat was well organised .
Sonny_R, Oct 2025
On October 4, 2025, our guide, Yemkela, picked us up in a car. Our fellow tourist was from Florida.
We headed to the Cape Town Waterfront to board the boat for the 30-minute ride to get to Robben Island. Robben is derived from Dutch in which Rob means “seal.” Contrary to the history we have learned, Cape of Good Hope and Robben Island were the home of the Khoisan peoples for at least a couple of millennia. In addition to convicts being sent to Robben, a leper colony was established in the 1800s, many died and were buried here.
We arrived on the island and boarded buses for the tour. Our guide, Yasin Mohammed, a man of Indian and Malaysian descent, was outstanding. We toured the max security prison that held Nelson Mandela. Mandela was in prison for 27 years — 18 in Robben and also Pollsmoor and Victor Verster. The other prisoners were Blacks, Coloreds, and Indians, because of various infractions, including protests and failure to carry their pass that allowed them access to only places that were listed.
After our tour of Robben Island, we headed back to the Cape Town Waterfront, caught up with Yemkela for our half-hour drive to Table Mountain. On a clear day, it offers phenomenal views of Cape Town and the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Unfortunately, we had low clouds and so although we took the Cable Car (Funicula) to the top, ate lunch and headed back down.
Jay_G, Jun 2025
Turns out that Robben Island was closed and they never told us. They did, however, offer us a substitute destination
Morgan, May 2025
Very informative friendly & guide, great experience learning about Robben Island from a former prisoner & the views from Table Mountain just spectacular
Kym_M, Feb 2025
The travel agent who picked us up from our hotel, parked a block away and told us he was there. After looking for him for sometime, he pulled up in front of our hotel. He did not get out and greet us; we were expected to open the door and climb into the Van And did not introduce himself before pulling away. Samora, Our guide was rude and obnoxious, and after driving halfway to table mountain indicated that the fog was so bad. We would have zero visibility and Suggested we do not visit table Mountain this morning Because of the poor visibility. We had three hours before the boat left for Robbin Island and I asked what was His recommendation that we could do while we waited for the Robbin Island tour to begin; He immediately suggested that we cancel Our tour for the day and he refund our money. This was the most unprofessional, disagreeable, and obnoxious tour guide I have ever encountered. He was incompetent and it appeared that he did not want to take us on this tour and look for any excuse to cancel.
Tumza_M, Jan 2025
Very informative and interesting. It was educational especially for my kids to understand where come from as a nation.
Hugh_B, Dec 2024
The local guide was incredible. Didn’t just look after us but found some magic to get us on the boat for Robben Island when nobody else could get one after four days of cancellations due to high seas
Sipho_C, Oct 2024
I didn’t go your bus was broken or something I m waiting for my refund the driver phone me to apologise
garret_t, Oct 2024
Sharing the day with the other guests.
Seeing the up close reality of Apartheid.
Haviing the clouds part while we were up on Table Mountain.
Dineo_S, Oct 2024
Our tour guide was Samora. It was an amazing experience. Samora educated us on Cape Town during the ride. He recommended that we start at Sea Island before Table Mountain because the weather wasn’t great. This made the tour even better. It was worth every cent
Billy_S, Oct 2024
The tour guide was always in hurry.we didn’t enjoy.we didn’t have time for anything,even to sit down and have lunch.
Response from Host, Oct 2024
Thank you for your feedback. Lunch time was provided in Waterfront before boarding the Robben Island ferry. We understand you didn't want to have lunch in any restaurant but insisted that you want to buy food from the grocery store which is a little far away. All other guest in your group had lunch before boarding to Robben Island
Jennifer_G, Sep 2024
Thamks so much to viator we had an amazing time is Cape Town is recommend it to my friend family and colleagues. I had a great experience of Cape Town through them.
Sibongile_C, Sep 2024
How the prisoners were treated and how sobukwe was isolated and not allowed visitors ,how Mandela fought tor the other black prisoners ,The menu for black people really shows how they hated them
angela_B, Aug 2024
Weather didn't cooperate so er couldn't do Robbin Island and did the Cape of Good Hope instead. It was great. Guide was amazing and flexible.
Prescilla_P, Jun 2024
The driver was approachable and frendly. Robben Island tour and Table mountain will always be memorable
Emilio_M, Jan 2024
The tour was good but could it be better because I didn't get ticket to the Robben Island and you guys did not advise me eralier about that.
But at the end I got ticket for the first boat.
ABRAHAM_P, Nov 2023
It is so funny that this is being asked of me because the trip has been cancelled twice for Robben Island. Moreover, I'm waiting and expecting to receive the full refund of Robben Island ticket and the payment made to Viator soon. You know what I'm talking about...
Best regards,
Abraham Park
Natasha_H, Aug 2023
Bad weather led to a rescheduling of my tour from the day originally planned then my Tour Guide had other plans for the new date he proposed. I ended up doing the activities on my own but was not able to get to Tabletop mountain.
The guide did say he will refund in full but I’m in Cape Town for experience and I missed that.
The idea of packaging the three activities was a great one since it gave me a sense of direction.
Monique_D, Dec 2024
Prachtig en indrukwekkend,
Tafelberg ging alleen niet door ivm
Mist. Maar Samora ( gids ) wilde iets anders ( de botanische tuin gaan doen ) maar die hadden wij al gezien . Hij heeft ons op later moment opgehaald op waterfront en ons weer terug gebracht naar hotel .
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