Coffee Bay (Koffiebaai) is a town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Get in

Coffee Bay

Hole in the Wall

By bus

Coffee Shack and Bomvu Backpackers offer a shuttle service from the Shell Ultra City in Umtata. Take one of the following buses to the Shell Ultra City Umtata:

• Bazbus Baz Bus - hop on hop off backpacker bus service from Port Elizabeth or Durban. +27 21 439 2323
• Intercity coaches: Greyhound, City to City, Translux, SA Roadlink.

By plane

• SA Airlink has daily flights from Johannesburg to Umtata FlySAA. You can hire a car from Umtata airport with Avis

Get around

See

• Hole in the wall, a beautiful 11 km hike or half hour drive. The Hole is a large cliff jutting into the sea through which waves have carved a large hole.

Do

Coffee Shack offers a wide variety of activities and some of the cheapest professional surf lessons in South Africa. Every day they do a different hike or activity.

Buy

• Afritude funky locally printed clothing.

Eat

• Papazellas - great pizza & good company. At the Greenhouse. Bookings essential. Ask for Phil or Luke.

Drink

Sleep

• Coffee Shack, ☏ +27 47 575-2048, happydays@coffeeshack.co.za. Camping from R70 per person, dorm beds from R120 and private rooms from R300 for a double. 
• Ocean View Hotel, ☏ +27 47 575-2005, fax: +27 47 575-2083, oceanview@coffeebay.co.za. 
• White Clay Resort (SC and DB&B) (1,5km on the road to Hole the Wall), ☏ +27 47 575-0008, whiteclay@vodamail.co.za. Nestled between cliffs above own private beach and bay. All accommodation offers sea views 100m from the beach. Fully licensed restaurant specialising in seafood, with pub. From R165 pp. 

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