World Cup travel prices

3 Dec 2009

With the World Cup rhetoric of sky-high flight prices and accommodation shortages intensifying, we decided to check for ourselves what's going on. Accommodation is a serious problem in Nelspruit, Polokwane and the Pilanesburg and flight prices are expensive (but not as expensive as some of the scaremongering which has been going on), whilst the good news is it's still possible to get car rentals at reasonable rates.

World Cup accommodation - mixed bag

We used our hotel price quotation engine to search for the cheapest accommodation for the evening of the 26th until the 27th June 2010 (bang smack in the middle of the Fifa World Cup).

Bloemfontein	Cape Town	Durban	Johannesburg
R800 Angels Haven	R200 40 Winks	R950 Honeypot B&B	R750 Airport Inn

The most serious problems are in Nelspruit, Polokwane and the Pilanesburg/Rustenburg; where we couldn't find a spot to stay.

Nelspruit	Polokwane	Port Elizabeth	Pretoria	Pilanesburg
sold out	sold out	R790 Aristotle Guest House	R1000 Threebees Guest House	sold out

World Cup flight prices - expensive

Similarly we checked one-way flight prices on the 26th June 2010. Prices are on the high side, but not extraordinarily so given the massive increase in demand expected.