Booking your holidays

A trip up Table Mountain is a must Wander. Stayed in Cape Town twice, once at the Hotel Rotunda and once at the Four Seasons, but I don't know if they are still there.

We just loved our holiday in SA. Capetown is brilliant, as is the Garden Route drive.

Garden route ? That doesn't sound right

gloswhite wrote:Garden route ? That doesn't sound right

It's right Glos..all the way from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and East London along the Drakensberg mountains. The only thing I never got to do was visit Robben Island and go in an underwater cage while they feed great White sharks with chum.

I feel like some people are mocking poor Martin.

This is his thread for his new job - and you lot are bragging about holidays you clearly didn't book through him.

Show some sensitivity you gobshites.

I want an all in holiday, Spain.

I bet I could probably beat his price.

This gobshite went to Robben Island. It was very good/informative. We drove the Garden route to PE, and then went to a safari park, which was brilliant. (we then flew to Joburg).

Nat, it shows Martin that he needs to know that his clientele will have a wide variety of tastes. and that he should be prepared for a variety of requests.

He's full of shit, always.

I was really looking for one.  But sorted now.  Interested to know what you would have suggested if you don't mind.

Currently in Paarl/stellenbosch checking out the wineries. Rained all day in ct and Simons town but had a great time. Off to do the cage tomorrow in gansbaii - then garden route. Will fly from pe to Durban to stay with my cousin after that. She's having a mid life crisis and has bought a Harley so should be fun. Still buzzing about Kruger though.

Be nice to know whether Martin can get a good deal for someone on here, or whether it's his usual bollocks talking.

Biggie wrote:I was really looking for one.  But sorted now.  Interested to know what you would have suggested if you don't mind.

Cheapest deal I could come up with is 4 star in the Algarve AI 2 rooms including transfers £1196 all in.
5th May

wanderlust wrote:Currently in Paarl/stellenbosch checking out the wineries. Rained all day in ct and Simons town but had a great time. Off to do the cage tomorrow in gansbaii - then garden route. Will fly from pe to Durban to stay with my cousin after that. She's having a mid life crisis and has bought a Harley so should be fun. Still buzzing about Kruger though.

Sounds like you're having the holiday of a lifetime Lusty. I'm not jealous at all. Little Hulton is an amazing place and there's nowhere else I'd rather be than here, looking out of my window, seeing the miserable weather, watching the chavs roam around with the odd middle aged scruffy bastard on their way to the shop, still in their pajamas and dressing gown, because getting dressed before you leave the house is seriously overrated and just takes away that extra ten minutes in the morning where you could be having a spliff. 

Like I said, not jealous at all.

I will never understand people who go on holiday and spend it posting on websites as though they were back in England.

All I can say is you can't be having that much of a good time.

Natasha Whittam wrote:I will never understand people who go on holiday and spend it posting on websites as though they were back in England.

All I can say is you can't be having that much of a good time.

Was thinking that myself.

Bwfc1958 wrote:

wanderlust wrote:Currently in Paarl/stellenbosch checking out the wineries. Rained all day in ct and Simons town but had a great time. Off to do the cage tomorrow in gansbaii - then garden route. Will fly from pe to Durban to stay with my cousin after that. She's having a mid life crisis and has bought a Harley so should be fun. Still buzzing about Kruger though.

Sounds like you're having the holiday of a lifetime Lusty. I'm not jealous at all. Little Hulton is an amazing place and there's nowhere else I'd rather be than here, looking out of my window, seeing the miserable weather, watching the chavs roam around with the odd middle aged scruffy bastard on their way to the shop, still in their pajamas and dressing gown, because getting dressed before you leave the house is seriously overrated and just takes away that extra ten minutes in the morning where you could be having a spliff. 

Like I said, not jealous at all.

No chance of a spliff here at least for today. Just finished off the day with a braii with Greg Olsen himself and had a great chat about the American elections and trump with one of the world's nicest arms manufacturers - apparently he makes drones and nanotechnology - drinking his own Olsen wine of course. We sat round a fire and got pissed like proper folk. One guest produced Zappa, steely dan and genesis and our chat with him and his American wife took me back to my youth. Cost was £75 for two of us for the room for the night plus £40 for the braii and wine. Just goes to show what creative planning can do. Off to gansbaii tomorrow to see if we can dive with great whites for 1600 rand (£80) apiece. Got to do it haven't we? Shitting myself though. If it's on we dive Tuesday morning first thing. Effing loving it. I'll no doubt get political about it later as I'm talking to the spectrum of folk in a very tense country and it's always there in the background.  Magic so far though. Only Bwfc have dampened my spirits so far.