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Cruise news: Check out this video of a barman showing how to make cocktails on the MSC Opera cruise ship.
We gave away some R4000 yesterday in travel vouchers for your writeups. Keep them coming, we want to give away more today!
Win a Mango holiday for 4
Others are also in the mood for giving away prizes - Mango Airlines have teamed up with SA Tourism to run a competition whereby if you book a flight with Mango by the 31st May 2013 & travel by the 31st July 2013 you stand a chance to win a holiday for 4 people to any local Mango destination.
Terms and conditions
Competition is open to guests flying to/from any of Mango’s 5 destinations.
· Only fully paid bookings made within the campaign's booking period period qualify for the competition.
· Booking Period: 19 April – 31 May 2013.
· Travel Period: 19 April – 30 June 2013.
· Limited seats available on selected flights on a first come, first served basis.
· The booking reference number must be e-mailed to marketing@flymango.com by the 31st May 2013
· The winner will be chosen and contacted on the 5th of June 2013
· The winner cannot exchange the prize for Mango flights or cash
· Special events, long weekends (Fridays and return Sundays) and peak flights are excluded for bookings for the winner.
· Subject to Mango’s Terms and Conditions
When staying in Cape Town, why not try accommodation in Fish Hoek? We recommend Tranquility Guest House for its views from high up above the town.
There's a new festival this year in Hermanus - from the 7th to the 16th June there's the Hermanus Fynarts Festival, which just so happens to coincide with the start of whale season (not the peak, though).
Did you know that if you're a South African citizen who is flying a 1-stop via Cairo (i.e. usually with Egyptair), and you're at the airport for less than 24 hours, you don't need a transit visa. If you're in the country from 6 to 12 hours, you can leave the airport.
Emirates is often cheapest from Johannesburg to New York, although it's quite a round trip.
Email us a write-up of your trip & we'll give you a travel voucher (write more & share pictures for bigger vouchers):
Photo taken on Saturday night at Lagoon Beach at sunset, - was a perfect autumn day, no wind and a goldilocks tempature (not too hot, not too cold, just right). And note all the orange in the picture, in keeping with the Mango theme of today's newsletter :)
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