{"id":1032,"date":"2009-01-24T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T22:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2009-02-02T00:19:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T22:19:46","slug":"cape-town-in-glowing-german-tv-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-town-in-glowing-german-tv-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town in glowing German TV spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the largest German TV channels, ARD, broadcast a wonderfully positive\u00a0one and a half hour movie called “Traumhotel – Kap der Guten Hoffnung” (Dream Hotel – Cape of Good Hope)\u00a0last night.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It will be the most positive PR for the city in the German market, which no S A Tourism or Cape Town Tourism budget could\u00a0afford to pay for\u00a0in terms of exposure and positive communication.<\/p>\n

Although stretching credibility a little by throwing in a side-story about a wonderful game reserve at which wild animals like elephants, giraffe, rhino’s, gnu and other buck walk around the actors as if it is the most natural thing in the world, the scenes shot in Cape Town captured the beauty of the city, and focused on all the most scenic spots, including\u00a0Table Mountain, The Sentinel in Hout Bay, Seal Island off Hout Bay, Cape Point, the V & A Waterfront, Boulder’s Beach and the penguins, killer whales breaching (killer whales are rarely seen in Cape Town), dolphins (not seen that regularly), the\u00a0Mouille Point lighthouse, Muizenberg Beach, Greenmarket Square, Noordhoek beach, a Constantia wine estate, and even some shots of\u00a0a township.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The main action of the story was set in the Table Bay Hotel, of which the hero of the movie is the General Manager.\u00a0 He is so well connected that he can organise the move of a soccer stadium to be built from the township to an undefined new area, and can help save the theft of baby lions by poachers at the game reserve.\u00a0\u00a0 Not much of his time was spent managing his hotel in the movie!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An impressive cruise liner was also in Cape Town harbour when the movie was shot.<\/p>\n

Not one negative aspect of the city was reflected in the movie – it was a glowing testimony to one of the most beautiful cities in the world!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All that was missing was some action at Camps Bay beach, although the closing shot was of the Atlantic seaboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the largest German TV channels, ARD, broadcast a wonderfully positive\u00a0one and a half hour movie called “Traumhotel – Kap der Guten Hoffnung” (Dream Hotel – Cape of Good Hope)\u00a0last night.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It will be the most positive PR for the city in the German market, which no S A Tourism or Cape Town Tourism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[15,3,22],"tags":[771,338,32370,598,661,85,32391,80,697,775,337,773,774,111,4,776,772],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t