{"id":86,"date":"2008-10-17T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/17\/cheaper-holidays-in-south-africa-as-the-rand-loses-value\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:32:09","slug":"cheaper-holidays-in-south-africa-as-the-rand-loses-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/cheaper-holidays-in-south-africa-as-the-rand-loses-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper Holidays In South Africa as the Rand Loses Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week has seen the South African Rand fall close\u00a0to record 5-year lows against the British pound (GBP), the US Dollar, and the Euro.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/images\/Misc%20Graphics\/ZARGBP_Oct08.jpg\" height=\"288\" style=\"width: 523px; height: 301px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is great news for holiday makers as this makes accommodation and safaris across the region cheaper at a time when many people are looking to save money where they can, and as South Africa is just entering it&#8217;s long summer months there has rarely been a better time to book a holiday of a lifetime in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/safari\/affordable-lodges.asp\">special offers and budget safari lodges<\/a>\u00a0highlight some of the special deals currently on offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has seen the South African Rand fall close\u00a0to record 5-year lows against the British pound (GBP), the US Dollar, and the Euro.\u00a0\u00a0 This is great news for holiday makers as this makes accommodation and safaris across the region cheaper at a time when many people are looking to save money where they can, [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/cheaper-holidays-in-south-africa-as-the-rand-loses-value\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,13,8],"tags":[1375,222,12,245,1378],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","category-cape-town","category-south-africa","category-travel-butlers","tag-african-safari","tag-holiday","tag-news","tag-rand","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}