Camps Bay is an affluent suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. In the European winter it is a hotbed of European tourists as well as local South Africans down for a beach holiday. It hosts beach volleyball tournaments as well as a refreshing nightlife. Camps Bay is named after an invalid sailor, Ernst Friedrich von Kamptz, who settled there in 1778. The back of Table Mountain, the Table Mountain cableway and the Twelve Apostles Mountain Range form a backdrop to the Camps Bay family beach. The surf is strong here and there is no resident lifeguard, but a rescue helicopter patrols regularly. The grass verge flanked by the Camps Bay tidal pool offers shady, wind-free barbecue spots. Trendy Shops, restaurants, a hotel, chemist, banks and police station are close to the beach.
Cafe Caprice is a popular nightspot - particularly on a Sunday night, while Dizzy's Jazz Cafe is a favorite with locals, particularly for karaoke on a Tuesday night and during the off-season when their pizzas are half price from Sunday to Tuesday. The Fleming Brothers, who live with Tim Harris at 1 Tree Road - just up from Glen beach - are also known to host excellent house parties in "The Treehouse", most weekends in summer.
