Our family of 4 (2 kids of 5 and 7) stayed 1 week at Christa's place in August.
The appartment is very stylish & uses warm colour palette, with a spacious terrace full of greenery as a big plus. We enjoyed both breakfast and evening dinners on the terrace, as it is sunny, charming and peaceful.
Peratallada is a small medieval village, beautifully renovated, completely pedestrian. It has many restaurants and only 1 local grocery store (no supermarket) opening at 9am (but you can try to reach the friendly owner a bit sooner). If you know this and you stock in some food & drinks smartly, you can find your way around this without problem.
The village is very calm and relax in the mornings, and in the afternoon/evenings it fills up with many visitors enjoying small souvenir shops & restaurants. Postively the appartment is located in a quiet part of the village & the terrace overlooks the greenery of the back street gardens, so it remains very peaceful all the day long, with activity just behind the corner if you wish for it.
Christa is very responsive via social media but not living closeby. However her good friend D. is living in the village, and he is there to welcome you, and help if needed. Also a guest book is in the appartment with some good tips.
The parking at Peratallada is very convenient. A large parking ground about 100m away, for which Christa already kindly arranged a week-ticket for our car, so we did not need to bother. At start & end of the stay, to unload/load the luggage, you can exceptionally drive & park 10m from the entrance door.
We have used Peratallada as a most charming base to visit the nice beaches, platjas and calas of this (not so touristy) part of the Costa Brava, everything max 15-30m drive away via good roads. Even in the high season, second half of August, we had a very nice front row place by the sea, when you arrive between 9-9.30am (can take breakfast on the beach). Many small beaches (tip: El Golfet at Cap Roig, and platja Fonda) have no restaurants, so you need to take your lunch if you want to stay for the day. We also enjoyed family kayaking at Tamariu (costa brava kayaking) and many camin rondas (at sa riera and at el castell beach) and the beautiful cacti and palms in the botanical gardens of cap Roig. We also discovered some nice pottery shops in La Bisbal (eg atelier of Yuma) although this is not so easy to find right away and all shops close in the afternoon for the siesta.
Thank you Christa for your hospitality!