The cottage is perfect for travellers with children, and altho we have no children ourselves, our two weeks stay at this safe and charming cottage was awesome, would have loved to stay longer. They have tortoises in the backyard and my partner enjoyed feeding more than fifty gold fishes every morning. There are many great restaurants (among the best in cape town area we had) in walking distance, anyway we’d recommend a rental car. Everything worked well, even during loadshedding. We had many enjoyable conversations with René in English and in German. He was really helpful, and did everything to make us feel more comfortable - he even woke up at 4am to make sure we get our taxi ride to the airport.
The cottage is also perfect for home office, wifi works perfectly 24h. If you are planning to stay around Hout Bay this is the place to go!