Emma’s place was very cosy and thoughtfully arranged. The host was very communicative and responsive to all the extras we needed , such as very late check-in, very early check-out, some prior shopping, and availability of some items for our 10 months old, like a baby cot.
She even provided some beautiful flowers and a bottle of wine as extras apart from soap, towels, bedding etc.
The place is absolutely beautiful and the house itself is very spacious. There are a number of steps inside the house which were a hazard for our crawling baby but unless you have a baby with you who cannot walk yet it shouldn’t be a problem. The upstairs room can be reached only via a very steep stair case which for the kids wasn’t great and I wouldn’t advise this for any older person either. But we were very happy just with the two downstairs bed rooms, living room, kitchen and outside veranda.
The compound is small and pretty much taken up by the pool which was very cold in October so couldn’t be used.
We had the pleasure to meet the house girl, Sana twice who was an absolute pleasure to meet, super friendly and very efficient.
The house is located in a residential area close to Constantia. We didn’t realize that we would be on the other side of town every day for appointments and would run into traffic trying to come back in the afternoons so in terms of location this is good if you don’t need to go towards Waterfront, Sea Point and the like very often or you go against traffic meaning not too early into town in the mornings and back to Wyneberg later than 6pm.
Nevertheless the place is an absolute gem and we felt very much at home.
We did have a problem with security as the alarm went off a couple of times and there was no way for the security company to get in touch with us other than through the host, which meant that Emma had to get in touch with us no matter the time of day and night. This did not always work out and we felt unsafe as the security company only rings the door bell and doesn’t come in if there is no response from Emma or the tenant. It is a normal procedure for Capetown and nobody’s fault but I think a procedure of the tenant being able to be reached directly by the Security company to check if everything is ok, i.e. through a landline phone would resolve this problem.
Again we had a wonderful stay in an impeccable house with everything that was needed and would highly recommend Emma’s place for anyone traveling to Capetown.