The 103-room PortsWood Hotel with harbor and Table Mountain views serves traditional Cape Malay dishes in its Quarterdeck Restaurant and shares full convention facilities and a wellness center with The Commodore, its sister hotel. Opened in 1996, the four-story PortsWood is built around the well and holding cells in what had been the Breakwater Prison, once one of the most feared prisons and the home of long-term convicts working on the breakwater in the 1860s.