Find Your Week
The Family Peninsula Adventure
We want a holiday everyone will remember.
Find Your Week
We want a holiday everyone will remember.
Written for parents who want a real week with their children: penguins, beaches, tidal pools, boats and mountains, all within half an hour, and a private home to come back to with a kitchen, a washing machine and doors that close.
You stay in a neighbourhood where local families live, not a tourist complex. Every day has one real adventure and plenty of slack for naps, snacks and the days when nobody wants to get in the car. Unpack once and live from here.
Day by day
Let them run before anything else.
Bags in, then straight down the hill to Glencairn Beach and the tidal pool so everyone can see where they are. First shop at the centre ten minutes away, first dinner at home, everyone in bed early, including you.
Turn it up: the walk along the shore to look for rock pools at low tide.
The day they will talk about for years.
Boulders Beach as early as you can manage, when the penguins are busiest and the boardwalks are quiet. The sheltered cove next door is one of the safest swims on the Peninsula for small children. Lunch in Simon's Town, afternoon at home.
Turn it up: a family kayak to the penguins with a guide, for older children.
The easy one. Keep it easy.
No car. The tidal pool in the morning, a picnic on the beach, a nap, the reading room, a film in the media room if the wind comes up. Dinner at home. This day exists so the others work.
Turn it up: the coastal walk to Fish Hoek with an ice cream at the far end.
Boats, a famous dog, and a museum that is actually fun.
Jubilee Square, the harbour, the naval museum and the statue of Just Nuisance, the Great Dane who was enlisted in the Navy. Lunch by the water, then Glencairn Beach for the afternoon.
Turn it up: a short boat trip from the harbour if the sea is calm.
Everyone in a wetsuit.
Muizenberg for a family surf lesson in the morning, the safest beginner surf in the Cape, then lunch on the beachfront. Afternoon at home. Early dinner.
Turn it up: a longer lesson for the teenagers, a nap for everyone else.
The big day out.
A full day at Cape Point: the funicular, the lighthouse, the ostriches, the beaches on the far side and the baboons on the road (windows up). Picnic from the kitchen. Home through Scarborough, tired and quiet.
Turn it up: add the Cape of Good Hope walk for older children.
Let them choose.
Ask the children which day was best and do a small version of it. Last swim in the tidal pool. Pack the car after lunch, not before.
Turn it up: a dawn beach walk while the others sleep.
Sleeps up to four, with the media room configured as a children's bedroom on request. Activities are ideas, not bookings. When you enquire we put you in touch with the local operators we trust. Some experiences depend on weather and season.
Tell us your dates and the ages of the children. Rates on request; we reply personally, usually within a day.