How many days will you be spending in South Africa?

I agree with you about the football being the priority, if it wasn't on there are many better times to go to South Africa. But I don't feel like it's been that expensive. My flights were a few hundred pounds more than usual, but car hire and accommodation has been relatively cheap as it is low season and away from the host city centres there are some great bargains to be had.

 

35 Days. Arrive June 7th, Depart July 12th.

TST-7, and I will search for tickets for any other matches in the cities I will be in.

Have some family there, so I won't be paying for accomodation the whole way through.

 

17 days, june 25th - July 12th
9 matches

50
52
54
55
58
60
61
62
64

Johannesburg 5, Capetown 1, Durban 1, rustenburg 1, pretoria 1
not a lot of travelling for 9 games. The matches in Rustenburg and Pretoria, we will still be based in Jo'burg for those matches.

 

Which team is yout TST-7 for?

 

I arrive June 11th and leave July 12th. So I'm actually on the ground a total of 29 days or so, I take off for a couple days to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and will see 16 to 17 matches. I like long trips when the travel time and plane ticket cost is high. If you dug a hole straight down from L.A. and came out the other side it would be really close to South Africa off the Eastern Coast! 20,000+ mile of flight distance here I come!

 

I would take the opposite approach
All 64 matches matches are historic events.There is nothing like going to a WC match even if its not you're country playing
Of course there should be a balance of some sort but football is the reason we are all there.Many folks will return on the back of the experience of this WC because the country will always be there,but the football certainly won't

Anyway-12th-29th,7 matches atm could end up being 10

 

Italy, my travel mates team. Luckily I have found some Germany tickets

Also afterwards, we are going to Zambia for a week+.

 

At the rate BMP and I are arguing the country might disappear LONG before the WC!

 

South Africa - 17 days
Namibia - 10 days

4 games only

 

11th June to 13th July on an England TST-7 + 3 other games in Joburg/Pretoria area.
Costing me a fortune but I figured that if I was going all the way to SA I may as well stay for the whole tournament.

 

12 days in SA..going to all 3 USA first round games plus the Portugal/N. Korea game in CT. As with all World Cups the best thing about it is meeting the fans from the other countries. Of course flying all that way we want to see parts of SA and what's popular, which I'll be doing the same. It's not the greatest sporting event on in the world because of the footy....it's meeting and drinking with each and every one of you!

 

24 days
June 11 Arrive
June 12 US v England in Rustenburg
June 13 chill in Malgiesburg (overcome jet lag and sober up)
June 14 Go to Zinkwazi Beach
June 15 Zinkawzi Beach
June 15 Zinkwazi Beach
June 16 Spain v Switzerland
June 17 Melville
June 18 US v Slovenia in Joburg
June 19 Hazyview
June 20 Kruger NP
June 21 Kruger NP
June 22 Kruger NP
June 23 US v Algeria in Pretoria
June 24 Drakensburgs
June 25 Drakensburgs
June 26 Drakensburgs (or Rustenburg R16 game)
June 27 R 16 in Bloemfontain
June 28 Long slog to Cape Town
June 29 R 16 in Cape Town
June 30 Camps Bay
July 1 Camps Bay
July 2 Camps Bay
July 3 QF in Cape Town
July 4 Head back to the USA

(And incidentally, for any South Africans that are doubting the potential for the World Cup to bring money to your fair country, my party of 8 is spending gobs of dough for lodgings and a two rental cars, and no doubt will be spending a LOT more on BEER and food. We may not pay for your new stadia, but we're doing our part).

 

14 days to include 10 games with the 1st 10 in JNB and the last 4 in DUR.

 

South Africa - 32
Zambia - 4

 

Viva Jimbo and all his money Viva!

 

Only 6 days (5 nights in SA), and watching 3 games... The most important thing is to take part

 

We leave England on June 4th, and are in SA until 21st July. Am I winning so far!?

We are students so have time on our hands. Doing things relatively cheaply, staying in hostels etc and driving around. Have tickets for all England group games, plus Algeria Slovenia and match 58. Also have a couple of other tickets that we cant get to to hopefully sell when we get to SA.

 

I just hope they don't raise the price of everything. Obviously we're paying through the nose for hotels, air fare and a car. But hopefully restaurants, bars, museums, national park entry fees, etc won't jack-up their prices too.

 

I think you will find that you pay significantly more in Kruger than the locals!!

 

And I'll be eating gruel from July 5th through the end of the year!

 

If the beer prices stay the same from what I've heard....we're golden.

 

The national parks have always charged overseas tourists more than the locals. Yes, apart from close to the stadia I cannot see it being more expensive anywhere else - not even Montecasino as their Fan Fest is only R50 for food and a beer. As a matter of fact there are already lots of cheap specials, all under the World Cup Special guise at restaurants.