City Sightseeing launches new Winelands tour
WESGRO and City
Sightseeing South
Africa launched the
Cape Explorer Winelands
tour on July 24. “The new
Winelands tour route, which
for the first time takes the City
Sightseeing bus out of Cape
Town, provides visitors to the
Cape an opportunity to sample
the best the Winelands has
to offer,” said City Sightseeing
md, Claus Tworeck. From
Cape Town, the tour visits
Bloubergstrand, Franschhoek
and Stellenbosch. “Tourists
will be encouraged to hop off
the bus throughout the tour
and explore the surrounding
areas,” said Claus. The iconic
red tour buses operate seven
days a week, 365 days a year
and arrive at each stop at
scheduled regular intervals.
Self-service bag-drop opens in Lanseria
LANSERIA Airport will
introduce self-service bagdrop
at the end of this
month, the first airport
in South Africa to do so.
The service makes use of
SITA’s self-service systems
to allow passengers to
check in and drop-off their
bags. Passengers who have
checked in online or on their
phone will be able to tag
their bags and drop them off
in under a minute by making
use of SITA’s Scan&Fly
self-service bag-drop unit.
Lanseria is also making use
of SITA’s Airport iValidate
system, which allows
automatic verification of
different types of boarding
passes, from home-printed
to mobile boarding
passes. This will speed
up the check-in process,
and increase security for
passengers.
Sunrise yoga experience on Table Mountain
SATORI Africa has
partnered with Follow the
Sun and Table Mountain
Aerial Cableway to launch
the Table Mountain
Sunrise Yoga Experience.
The exclusive experience,
which lasts between two
and three hours, allows
guests to take the first
cableway of the day,
before the crowds arrive.
They can experience the
mountain while it is still
quiet while having a yoga
class overlooking Cape
Town and Lion’s Head. The
class is followed by coffee
and muffins. The return
ticket allows guests to ride
down again at their leisure,
leaving them free to spend
more time exploring the
mountain, join the free
guided tour or just enjoy
the view.
New hotel group comes to SA
H12 Art of Life has acquired
its third property in Africa, H12
Leshiba Venda Village Lodge,
in Limpopo. Founder and ceo
of H12, Walter Junger, said:
“We have always been excited
about South Africa and we
are happy to find the perfect
partner in John Rosmarin
and his family, who created
Leshiba Wilderness. They
share our vision for art and
lifestyle hotels with exceptional
personalised services in the
most iconic places.” The
12-bed property is atop the
Soutpansberg in a malariafree
reserve and is a five-hour
drive, or 90-minute light aircraft
flight, from Johannesburg.
Karoo game reserve introduces new flights
MOUNT Camdeboo Private
Game Reserve near GraaffReinet
in the Great Karoo,
will celebrate its tenth year
next month with various
developments, including
new flights.
The three homesteads on
the 14 000-hectare reserve
were renovated and opened
to their first guests in 2007.
To improve access, a new sixdays-a-week
scheduled flight
from Plettenberg Bay to GraaffReinet
airstrip was launched in
partnership with PlettAirSafaris.
The flight will reduce travelling
time to the area and offers
an easy and accessible
Cape Town-Plettenberg Bay
(with Cemair)-Graaff-Reinet
(PlettAirSafaris) service.
