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Hotels in SA
If I were to do a "road trip" around SA in March, could I expect to just
turn up in a middle sized provincial town (or even a provinivial capital) in the early evening and find a hotel room for say, under 800 Rand? And are there road side motels like I would find in the US (and now more common in Europe) TIA tim |
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"Marc Lurie" wrote in message ... Yes you could. The holiday season sarts in early April, and it will be more difficult then, but March shouldn't be a problem at all. 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), 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 Many hotels and guesthouses charge a per person tarrif, while some charge a fixed room rate. There are numerous "Bed and Breakfasts" in virtually every town as well. These offer from basic accommodation to luxury accomodation. I've never had too much of a problem finding accomodation wherever I've been. Prices range from around R350 and up. I eventually found this: http://www.aatravel.co.za/ 300 pp or 400 sgl looks to be a normal rate. 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 There are motels as well. OK that's good to hear thanks tim |
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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. |
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