Mango cheapest	27 Jun 2008 flights surveyed on 31 May 2007
Cape Town & Durban school holidays

Time to finalise those travel plans for the Cape Town & Durban school holidays, as flight prices are already high and are climbing! If you want to keep at the coast (and away from the xenophobia in Gauteng), Mango Airlines is currently offering the cheapest flight from Durban to Cape Town (if you can call a one-way flight costing over R1000 cheap).

Flights from Durban to Cape Town		Bus trips from Durban to Cape Town
British Airways	1235	Baz Bus (7 day pass)	1020
Kulula.com	1547	Citiliner bus	385
Mango Airlines	1085	City to City bus	380
Nationwide Airlines	closed down	Greyhound bus Intercape bus	490 490
1time Airline	1095	SA Roadlink bus	site down
SAA - South African Airways	2005	Translux bus	510

Highest flight and bus prices ever

The above flight and bus prices are the highest we've seen in over a year of surveying the Durban-Cape Town flight route.

Car rental prices in Cape Town

Europcar rentals	Avis car hire	Hertz car rental	Imperial car rental (now Europcar)	First Car Rental	Tempest car hire	Thrifty car rental
513	343	409	479	332	331	386

Tempest Car Hire's car rental price has gone up slightly, but it is still the cheapest.

Accommodation prices in Cape Town

Protea Hotel Break-water Lodge	Court-yard Cape Town	City LodgeV&A Water-front	Town Lodge Bellville	Road Lodge Cape Town Airport	Southern Sun V&A Waterfront	StayEasy Century City	Garden Court De Waal	Sun Int The Table Bay Waterfront
630	855	831	532	355	846	535	594	site down

As usual Road Lodge is cheapest (but who wants to stay at the airport). The price of a night at the Protea Hotel Breakwater Lodge has come down slightly, as has the price of a night at the Southern Sun V&A Waterfront.

Emy visits Kirstenbosch

Last week I wrote about Emy's trip on the Baz Bus from Cape Town to Umzumbe. I'm a fan of her blog as she posts tons of photos, so this week I'm linking to her trip to Kirstenbosch gardens in Cape Town. Instead of taking the Baz Bus there she took the "Boogie Bus" (actually the first time I've heard of it) to Kirstenbosch where she watched a South African band playing (The Rudimentals...another thing I'd never heard of!).

Irish obsess over O'Leary's money

"While the Irish obsessed over O'Leary's money, American investors were unconcerned. 'It wasn't hard to defend in the US at all,' says one source close to the float. 'It's like the anecdote where an Irish guy and an American guy walk down the street and they see this guy's huge house up on the hill. The American guy goes, 'Some day I'm going to get that house,' and the Irish guy goes, 'Some day I'm going to get that f$%k*r.'" Extract from Michael O'Leary's biography by Alan Ruddock, "A Life in Full Flight: The story of the man who made Ryanair take off".

 

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