On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:55:46 -0000, "tim....."
wrote:


Thanks

One of the guide books says that it's hard (without pre-booking) for the
whole of the summer (October to April I think),
That may be true for the major hotel groups such as Southern Sun,
Holiday Inn, City Lodge etc. but I've never had a problem finding
accommodation somewhere.


But I can't see how it can be, none of the Northern hemisphere visitors are
likely to target March and the locals are mostly going to be travelling
during the school holiday, which I made sure to miss
Correct.


http://www.aatravel.co.za/

300 pp or 400 sgl looks to be a normal rate.
It depends where you are looking. I just spent a weekend in Rustenburg
(near Sun City) and I found perfectly acceptable accommodation at R350
for the room per night, for two of us.


Larger towns and cities will have a range of accomodation available
and there will almost always be somewhere to stay.

Large town hotels are outside my friend's price range (He's trying to
pretend that B&Bs are outside his price range!).

And it doesn't matter which route you take there are long distances where
there are no large towns to stop at
Large towns tend to be spaced roughly 100 to 300km apart. There is
ALWAYS accommodation somewhere. In my experience, there is always a
reasonably priced B+B in every small town or city.