Planning Our #RoadTrip to the #GardenRoute With Parents @Travelstart #PE #CapeTown #Johannesburg

Hi Friends, 

It was my parent’s third trip to South Africa and this time we wanted to show them Cape Town for sure but as we started planning for the same, an idea came to travel the Garden Route as we also have not seen the same since we are here in this country from the last 5 years. Earlier, I wanted to buy Honda BRV to take on this trip and during that time the car was going around 20k ZAR on sale too. I was adamant to take my own car on the Garden Route trip. After getting approvals of leaves from office, we started planning the distance and cities to stay during the trip and found that it will be difficult if we start traveling in the car from Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth and then back from Cape Town to Johannesburg. 

Also, my parents were against the car travel as my father suffers from vomiting in the closed space of the car and also we will need to take some breaks to cover 1200km and it will at least take 12 hours to reach Port Elizabeth in best case scenario within road speed limits. My wife told that it’s better we check an early morning flight from Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth and then a late evening flight back from Cape Town to Johannesburg. I have never booked a domestic flight within South Africa so asked some enlightened people who travel a lot. They all said book from Lanseria Airport, flights are cheaper there, book on this website and that website, on this day or that day but here I was totally confused during the weekend finding it difficult to book flights and accommodations as per our confined dates of the trip. 

Travelstart came to my rescue early morning when I came across some random post on Facebook and thought of using the same when we all sat for final bookings of places to stay and flights. My first thing was to book flights because if we don’t get flights we won’t get go ahead. My wife’s first preference was good accommodation for the extended family with kitchen specifically as we had a 1-year-old baby with us too along with my vegetarian parents. So my mom and she started looking at accommodations and she started booking them closest to the locations we intended to stay and paying them using her card and email id. I and dad were busy with flights and passport numbers to be entered and age details with right times to start from OR Tambo or Lanseria Airport and finally decided to go with Travelstart website to make our final bookings. My overall experience of using the website was awesome and I am really looking forward to using some great travel trips with them from their packages section.

The overall final itinerary looked like 
Flight to PE from Johannesburg: At 6:50am in the morning (2hrs)
Early Check-in at PE and Overnight Stay in PE
2nd Day - Travel to Plettenberg Bay and stay for 3 nights
5th Day - Travel to Pearly Beach and stay overnight
6th Day - Travel to Cape Town and stay for 3 nights
9th Day - Evening flight to Johannesburg (2hr 30min) and reach home by 11pm

It was a total of 1650km for 9 days rented car with all the most visited places seen and captured in memories and images with no traffic fines and no tension to the driver and relaxed Garden Route for everyone in the family!

Cheers!!!

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@TheGreatMoscow Circus Opens in #Johannesburg #MoscowCircus @MonteCasinoZA

Hi Guys,

A packed audience was left amazed and exhilarated at the much anticipated opening night of The Great Moscow Circus at Montecasino in Johannesburg on 22nd December 2016.

Magnificent props, gorgeous costumes, swathes of curtains, hundreds of LED lights, and crystal clear cutting edge sound were the order of the evening, as audiences immersed themselves in a sensational, two-hour world premiere program featuring 19 incredible international circus acts.

Every possible circus favourite was performed - the funniest clowns, the most-daring acrobats, death-defying daredevils, aerial artists, balancers, and much more – all under a mighty 40-metre diameter, 17 meter high, spectacular air-conditioned Big Top circus tent.

“The Great Moscow Circus guarantees breath-taking, affordable, family entertainment that delivers all the thrills and fun of the circus of yesteryear, with all the skill and daring of today’s circus heroes,” said Andrew Guild, International Producer Theatre Tours International.

“As Gauteng’s premier entertainment destination we pride ourselves in creating memorable experiences by hosting world class events such as The Great Moscow Circus. Last night was truly sensational!” said Debbie Combrink, Marketing Manager Montecasino.

The Montecasino shows form part of a South African tour, which includes shows in Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth.

The tour features some of the best circus stars in the international circus world, including Monte Carlo’s famed International Circus Festival, daredevils from Spain and Mexico, and Europe’s top circus attractions, all hand-picked by Guild.

During Soviet times, Guild made more than 250 visits to Moscow and travelled extensively throughout Russia and the Soviet states. A fluent Russian speaker, married to a former Russian ballerina, he has toured more than 7,000 performers in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the UK. He has used this experience to find the very best acts to star in The Great Moscow Circus Tour of South Africa.

With only a limited season, the producers urge audiences to book early to ensure they don’t miss out.

The South African 2016/17 tour dates include:
₋ From 22 December 2016, Montecasino, Johannesburg
₋ From 3 February 2017, Foreshore - Founders Garden, Jan Smuts Street, Cape Town
₋ From 16 February 2017, The Windmill, Bloemfontein
₋ From 23 February 2017, The Boardwalk, Port Elizabeth

The show contains no animal acts. Tickets are on sale at Computicket outlets nationally. Ticket prices range from just R150 to R595 per person. Call 0861 915 8000 or book on line at www.computicket.com

Follow The Great Moscow Circus on Facebook and Twitter at:
www.facebook.com/greatmoscowcircussa.com
www.twitter.com/TheGreatMoscow
#MoscowCircus
For more information visit www.greatmoscowcircus.co.za

Cheers!!!

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