TripAdvisor South Africa Review

Hotels and restaurants in South African proudly announce when they've won TripAdvisor awards. These awards & Tripadvisor rankings can entice tourists who do not yet know where to stay or eat.

As a South African, one can be proud of the quality we have to offer. When TripAdvisor released the winners of the Top 25 Destinations in the World Cape Town was voted number 16. As a country, we should be very proud to have a city which is a top destination in the world. Below are tables showing Tripadvisor's collective view of top hotels (the Cape Grace hotel in the Waverfront in Cape Town tops the list), restaurants and beaches of South Africa. It is important to know that TripAdvisor is continuously updating their site with new restaurants or hotels. Therefore the list of top hotels, restaurants, guest house, attractions and things to do can be changed over night based on users reviews. Users are uploading reviews on a daily basis and this can affect the TripAdvisor rating of a hotel, restaurant or attraction.

Top 25 Restaurants in Cape Town

Top Beaches in South Africa

Things to do in South Africa

South Africa is such a diverse country and it has numerous activities to offer locals as well as tourists. Whether it is going up the cable car to Table Mountain, taking a ferry to Robben Island, swinging across the Moses Mabhida Stadium or taking a 4x4 through the Kruger National Park, South Africa will always keep you entertained. TripAdvisor offers a list of attractions for Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria, Plettenberg Bay and many more. Below are a few of the attractions ranging from different parts of South Africa.

Airlines Used

You can search and compare flights prices on TripAdvisor by making use of either Travelstart, Expedia or Skytours. Expedia and Skytours make use of South African Airways and British Airways only, whereas Travelstart shows low cost airlines such as Mango and Kulula as well as British Airways and South African Airways. The price is shown in Dollars on Expedia and Skytours and in Rands on Travelstart.

Users on TripAdvisor have the ability to rate airlines according to their value, comfort, baggage handling, punctuality as well as others. British Airways has so far received 843 ratings and has a star rating of 3 (out of 5). The airline is 74% recommended. South African Airways has so far received 77 ratings and has a star rating of 3 (out of 5). The airline is 53% recommended. TripAdvisor offers an Air Travel forum where you can see a a list of discussions between users about air travel. If you have a question or comment, you can post it in the forum and anyone will be able to resond. Please see below a table showing the travelers ratings for each airline in South Africa.

What is TripAdvisor?

TripAdvisor is a website (tripadvisor.com) aimed at the travel enthusiasts. You can find all things travel related including where to stay, where to eat, where to go and what to do in the city/country of your choice. This interactive site allows users to post reviews and photos about hotels, restaurants, transport or even services they experienced. This information gives great insight about a place as people will decide where to stay/eat/go depending on how good or bad a review is.

The history of TripAdvisor

In February 2000, Stephen Kaufer founded TripAdvisor and received financing from Flagship Ventures, the Bollard Group and private investors.

In 2004, InterActive Corporation purchased TripAdvisor and then in 2005 proceeded to divide the travel group businesses under the Expedia, Inc name.

TripAdvisor gained five new travel communities in 2007: SmarterTravel.com, BookingBuddy.com, SeatGuru.com, TravelPod.com and Travel-Library.com. After this but also in 2007, the company gained The Independent Traveler, Inc which is responsible for Cruise Critic.com and IndependentTraveler.com.

In 2008, Holiday Watchdog, Virtualtourist and OneTime.com were added to TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor introduced vacation-rentals to their site as they gained a majority stake in FlipKey.com.

In 2009, TripAdvisor set up a new site in China called daodao.com and later on in 2009 continued to purchase the second-largest travel site and hotel and flight search engine, Kuxun.cn.

An announcement was made in 2011 that Expedia would separate into two companies by dividing the TripAdvisor travel sites.

The latest trend to hit TripAdvisor in 2012 was to connect to Facebook. Users can now see where their friends on Facebook have been and the reviews they have written.