Hot air ballooning in Cape Town will commence again from the 18th October 2011 (unless there's a large enough booking to make it worthwhile driving the balloon down from Gauteng).
Cruise news: Royal Caribbean International winter 2012-13 Australia cruises are open for booking. You can choose between 5 cruisetour itineraries, which combine an escorted multi-night land tour and a cruise aboard one of the ships.
SAA October flights
Fly SAA Johannesburg to Durban from R600. Here's the cheapest one-way South African Airways flights on each day in October 2011. This isn't an official SAA special. Book at SAA, but first compare flight prices. Prices will change (perhaps even by the time you receive this).
Royal Caribbean International winter 2012-13 Australia cruises are open for booking. You can choose between 5 cruisetour itineraries, which combine an escorted multi-night land tour and a cruise aboard one of the ships. Reply to this email for more details.
The land tour includes visits to Ayers Rock, rising high above the Northern Territory’s dramatic desert plain, cruise, swim, snorkel and dive in the Great Barrier Reef from Port Douglas. In New Zealand, you can see Auckland and Rotorua and enjoy a Hangi and Maori concert among many other activities. All Royal Caribbean cruisetours are escorted by an Adventure Specialist and include hotel accommodations, transportation and select meals.
Voyager of the Seas, Radiance of the Seas and Rhapsody of the Seas offer vacationers a wide range of short cruises – one-, two-, and five-night itineraries – to longer, eight- to 18-night cruises in the South Pacific to New Zealand and Australia. Vacationers also can choose a repositioning cruise aboard Voyager of the Seas from Singapore to Fremantle, departing October 22, 2012, and return on March 9, 2013. Radiance of the Seas and Rhapsody of the Seas will both reposition from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sydney, via Hawaii, in September 2012, and return in May 2013.
King Shaka International Airport is situated some:
- 40 km north of Durban city
- 144 km from Richards Bay
- 204 km from Ulundi
- 60 km from Amanzimtoti
- 167 km from Margate
To get from King Shaka airport to your hotel on the Durban beachfront, it is often cost effective to take the Airport Shuttle, phone 031:4651660
"No amount of money is worth a person’s life. A traveler should concede his or her money or possessions during a robbery rather than risk violent reprisal from the culprit." Stratfor
The Purple shall rule! We love it when readers give credit to hard working pilots and cabin crew. Mrs Rademeyer wrote to us about a top notch 1time pilot: "I must comment on this. On Saturday 23 July 2011 @ 12h30 I flew on One Time from JHB to Port Elizabeth. My personal experience with landing at PE (not at any other place, only at PE) is UGLY!!! My ears always pain, I always cry, no matter how hard I blow my nose or how many chappies I go through - so obviously, I braced myself for the same experience!
For the first time in app 7 years, I did not even have a tingle in my ears - congratulations to the pilot, Bez Bezuidenhout for actually
coming down the right way and not racing down - I think in future I will ask who the pilot is going to be - think they'll tell me? Thanks
Captain - it was a great trip!"