Richard and Laura were very friendly and welcoming and even gave us valuable advice on interesting activities in the area. Whenever we needed something or had a question Richard almost instantaneously answered our text messages. The house itself is very charming and offers see views from most rooms. It has 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and is spacious and can thus easily host 4 couples although I would recommend less people for a longer stay. The master bedroom on the second floor, right next to the main living and dining room and the veranda, has the nicest views, the highest standard and the nicest bedroom, pretty much high boutique hotel standard. The other bedrooms are rather standard but very clean and comfortable. The living room is very inviting and the veranda has one of the best sea views including mountains that you can possibly have in Cape Town. There is a braii/barbecue area on the veranda which together with the outside dining table allows for beautiful barbecues outside. The main kitchen (there are two more kitchenettes) is fully equipped also for the preparation of fancy meals. Downstairs used to be a separate apartment with two bedrooms (both with sea views but rather limited) one bathroom and a kitchenette. The standard is basic but comfortable! Adjacent is the wooden deck with the pool which is rather small but ideal for kids or for a refreshment on hoter days. The deck also offers sea views, a dining table and sun chairs. Kommetjie is a a very charming sea side village but quite spread out and the tiny and friendly village center offers about 5 restaurants/cafés/eateries and two small shops. It is not a bustling seaside resort rather a beautiful sleepy seaside village. The house is about 20 minutes by foot from the village center and 2 minutes from the beautiful Long Beach. The water temperature in this part of the Atlantic is cold to ice cold (10 degrees Celsius) even in summer. The neighborhood is very friendly and feels very safe although it is not gated as adjacent communities to the east. To play it safe we never slept with the windows open although we thus couldn't hear the waves at night. The house looks like a charming old seaside cottage and many similar houses around have thatched roofes. The house as most houses around has only waist high wooden fences and in all of Kommetjie the electric fences so ubiquitous in other parts of Cape Town are a rare sight. As we read burglars tend to prefer houses with plenty of escape routes which especially the house at the end of a dead end road on another dead end road does definitely not have. The drive to Cape Town city center takes about 45-60 minutes, the drive to Camps Bay 45 minutes, so while Kommetjie is pretty much in the center of the best wave surfing spots (with Long Beach itself being one) it is not close to the city center. There...