# Temenos Retreat

McGregor, South Africa · Selected: clears the published selection standard.

- Page: https://mindreachgetaways.com/za/western-cape/wellness-retreat/temenos-retreat
- Book direct: https://www.temenosretreat.co.za/
- Map pin: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-33.95,19.826

## Our read

Temenos is worth the journey because the garden Billy still names is the stay, not because McGregor has cottages for a wine weekend.

## Come here for

- Travellers who will go to McGregor for a garden of many faiths, not a Robertson tasting inn
- People who want a cottage with a patio and a fireplace, and who can self-cater or take dinner at Tebaldi restaurant
- Guests who can live without a dest-spa timetable and who want quiet paths, a chapel and a library

## Skip it if

- You want a programmed dest-spa with treatments as the product. Temenos is cottages and a garden.
- You need nightlife. McGregor is printed as a road that stops under a mountain.

## The place

Temenos Retreat sits at the corner of Bree and Voortrekker Streets, McGregor, near Robertson in the Western Cape. The history page says Billy Kennedy bought the ruin in 1996 and opened the retreat on 1 February 1997 with friends in the Chapel of the Little Way. The original 1856 clay homestead is now the restaurant. Reception@temenosretreat.co.za sits in the footer of that same history page. The garden holds, as printed there, an Inner Temple of the Heart, an Angel for Lost Children, a Buddha with prayer flags, a Well with meditation cushions, a library, a stone labyrinth, a stupa to St Teresa, the Little Way chapel, and a small chapel to Ganesha. The accommodation page prints fourteen cottages, all ensuite, with private patios and a fireplace, and fully equipped for self-catering. Dinner, bed and breakfast packages and a garden restaurant are also offered. Library suites are Jamil, Iona, Avila and Lisieux, quiet Georgian rooms by the garden library. Garden cottages around the duck pond are Assisi, Carmel, Subiaco and Santa Chiara. Spiral cottages Athena and Beulah sit by The Well. Veritas is a two-bedroom cottage with kitchen and living room. Book through reception@temenosretreat.co.za or +27 23 625 1871. Reserve with the hotel. MindReach does not take the booking.

## What it is like

- Billy still names the garden: Billy Kennedy is named on the history page beside reception@temenosretreat.co.za in that page footer.
- Fourteen cottages: Ensuite rooms with private patios and fireplaces, from library suites to garden, spiral and Veritas.
- The garden of the Beloved: Chapel, labyrinth, stupa, Well, library and paths printed on the history page.
- Self-cater or dine: Cottages are equipped to cook. Dinner, bed and breakfast and Tebaldi restaurant sit on the same pages.
- McGregor: A village on a road that stops under a mountain, near Robertson, not a city spa.

## Ways to stay

- A library suite or garden cottage · Ask Temenos. A current public rate is not printed on the pages we read. · https://www.temenosretreat.co.za/
- Spiral cottage or Veritas · Ask Temenos. Confirm the cottage when you write. · https://www.temenosretreat.co.za/

## Getting there

Corner of Bree and Voortrekker Streets, 6708 McGregor, Western Cape. Phone +27 23 625 1871 or +27 64 866 8824. Email reception@temenosretreat.co.za. Book on temenosretreat.co.za.

## Questions

**Who runs Temenos?**
Billy Kennedy is named on the official history page as the person who bought the ruin in 1996. reception@temenosretreat.co.za sits in that page footer.

**How many cottages?**
Fourteen, printed on the accommodation page, all ensuite with private patios and fireplaces.

**Is food included?**
Cottages are self-catering. Dinner, bed and breakfast packages and a garden restaurant are also offered. Confirm the rate with reception.

**Is this a dest-spa?**
The printed product is cottages inside a contemplative garden. A treatment timetable is not the product on those pages.

**Where do I book?**
temenosretreat.co.za, reception@temenosretreat.co.za or +27 23 625 1871. MindReach does not take the reservation.

## How far to trust this

Written from what the property publishes. Not yet checked by hand. Confirm on their site before you book.
MindReach Getaways does not take the booking. You book with the property.