The Sands at St. Francis If you are looking or a intimate getaway along the Garden route, The Sands at St. Francis is just the place to go to. The Sands @ St. Francis is located in St Francis Bay in the Eastern Cape. This 5-bedroomed luxurious, beach-styled thatched-roof lodge is situated on the ocean’s edge. Each bedroom opens onto a private deck with the beach below. The rooms has jacuzzi bath tubs and bidets as standard features and som e rooms has an outside shower and Jacussi on their timber deck. The lodge has an octagonal glass-fronted restaurant, with central fireplace and cocktail bar and has a 300 degree vantage point. For the exhausted guest after a long stroll on the beach there is a steam room and beauty treatments and massage therapies available on request.