Nasia's spot is among the best places you could hope to stay in the wider Cape Town area. This top floor apartment is a 5-minutes walk to Boulders beach, has the most fantastic views of False Bay from the two balconies, and is spacious and well-kept. Simonstown is one of the most historic parts of the Cape, site of the SA Navy, which was instrumental in the two world wars, and it has a small-town-outpost feel about it, but with some pretty great restaurants. We took the kids to the Simon's Town museum, set in a building that's centuries old, and they loved it. A 10-minute drive down to Kalk Bay, there's Kalky's, which serves great fresh fish, but there are places like Cafe Pescado in Simon's Town itself which are good -- and clearly well liked by the locals, which is always a good sign. The series of small beaches, right the way down from the harbour to past Boulders beach, was a hit for the children.