Overall

The whole 6 weeks we where there, we felt "ripped off" by the inflated prices, shoddy service and lackluster business services, everybody cries that they need foreign investment but nobody wants to do business as they throw up all kinds of excuses why. South Africa needs to get its pricing sorted out in accommodation/car rental/restaurants/ poor service in banks/real estate agents/business community/food service/and access to internet/ as one example if u go to a wine estate and buy a local bottle of wine which is sold for the same as US$40-00 when in the USA you can get the same vintage and estate for US$ 20-00 and upon asking the sales person how come this is so, we get a shoulder shrug, damn I could re-import it from the USA to SA and it would still be cheaper than buying it at the source in this case the estate that makes it, House prices are drastically over inflated also. After visiting SA for the last 12 years this time around was too much. As a footnote SAA now flies with their new Airbus a 21-hour flight from the East Coast USA (Atlanta) instead of the 14 hours with the old Boeings, Is that an improvement in service for the customer?? Granted the Airbus is 22% more fuel efficient but has smaller fuel tanks so it needs to stop a few times, Isle de Sol and all flights to JHB first with no direct to Cape Town... aah getting there is half the fun they say and now its half your vacation too .

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5 June 2005 | A Yahoo! User

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