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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or kids were younger when we went (elementary school), they are teens now. The wineries we went to were family-friendly enough, but my now-teens would be bored. I'd take them instead to Table Mountain, Boulders Beach, or Cape Point.

Cape Town is definitely worth it, though![/quote]

Very helpful comment. I'm okay with our kids being bored for a few hours (I think its an important life skill to be bored and be okay with that). I love your suggestions for the beach and hiking.  Did you hire an armed guard for those outings, or what did you do to ensure safety? [/quote]

PP here.  We did not, but this was almost ten years ago, I don't know the current state of security there.

We did stay in a gated hotel complex, and didn't spend a lot of time wandering around Cape Town. Mostly just drove between our hotel and the day trip destinations. Car doors locked the whole time and got directions from our hotel instead of just looking them up on a GPS, they told us what routes to avoid.

I'm sure there are safe parts of Cape Town and not-safe parts. With only a few days there, and young kids, we just took the hotel's advice and didn't explore a lot. We're not really city people anyway, so hiking and beaches and wineries were more our style.

Boulders Beach, Cape Point, and everywhere in between felt perfectly safe. [/quote]

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