{"id":47,"date":"2008-03-13T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T17:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/13\/weak-rand-makes-south-africa-even-more-affordable\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T12:30:10","slug":"weak-rand-makes-south-africa-even-more-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/weak-rand-makes-south-africa-even-more-affordable\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak Rand Makes South Africa Even More Affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"

With tourist rates for the South African Rand now appearing to have stabilised (at least for the moment) at around R14.5 = \u00a31.00, visiting South Africa<\/a> has become even better value.<\/p>\n

The Rand is a very volatile currency, however at the time of writing the rate is R14.65=\u00a31.00, and this compares to an average of R13.50=\u00a31.00 in 2007, R11.45 = R1.00 in March 2006, and R10.60=\u00a31.00 in March 2005.<\/p>\n

So what does this mean for visitors to South Africa? Well, a 5 night stay for 2 people at the fabulous Table Bay Hotel<\/a> in Cape Town<\/a> would cost R13400 in May – that is \u00a3915 at today\u2019s\u00a0exchange rate, but would have been \u00a31264 at the March 2005 exchange rate – a saving of \u00a3349!<\/p>\n

The same holds true for the safari lodges which also work out to be much cheaper this year compared to previous years. A\u00a03 night stay for 2 people at Exeter Leadwood <\/a>in the Sabi Sands Reserve<\/a> would cost R21720 this coming May – that\u2019s around \u00a31483 at the current exchange rate compared with \u00a32049 at the March 2005 rate – a saving of \u00a3566, or\u00a027%.<\/p>\n

The same holds true for everyplace in South Africa, from the great value guest houses of Cape Town, the Winelands, and the Garden Route, right the way through to the 5* hotels and safari lodges.<\/p>\n

There is an argument for saying that there has never been a better time to go to South Africa, and with the low season rates starting in a few weeks time there are certainly some real bargains to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With tourist rates for the South African Rand now appearing to have stabilised (at least for the moment) at around R14.5 = \u00a31.00, visiting South Africa has become even better value. The Rand is a very volatile currency, however at the time of writing the rate is R14.65=\u00a31.00, and this compares to an average of […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,13,9],"tags":[1375,173,1380,171,172,1378],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","category-cape-town","category-south-africa","category-travel-news","tag-african-safari","tag-bargins","tag-cape-town","tag-cheaper","tag-rand-exchange-rate","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}