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Our whole itinerary dovetailed beautifully, and the app was very useful. We felt confident that DialAFlight had all our arrangements in place, and we could relax!
The whole programme worked perfectly - many thanks
Very poor wheelchair service at Manchester Airport on our return. Never enough handlers on duty for the wheelchair users. Cape Town Airport always gives better wheelchair service.
Excellent service and with a smile!
All went smoothly - many thanks
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Will use you next year
Super service as always. Thank you Saf for continuing to look after us so well
Great customer service from start to finish!
Great service from Cooper helping with extending our car rental due to flight delay.
All good. Egypt Air excellent.
As a senior citizen I really appreciate the helpful attitude your employees show particularly helping with check-in
James helped us in every detail
Jonathan is number one in the travel business
Very professional as always
We’ve used Jarvis and his team many times and always found them to be very helpful and resourceful finding good deals
Extremely pleased with the service and value
Have used DialAFlight for several years and have always been very satisfied.
Great flights, many thanks!
Absolutely incredible service from start to finish! I highly recommend your company to all my friends and family
Fair and honest. I have much confidence in this company and will continue to use them
Everyone is always helpful
Marco, our travel manager was a great help throughout the planning and booking process. He kept us updated and was very helpful with advice all the way through. All the flights and car hire worked like clockwork.
I always deal with Michael as he is fantastic - he is Mr DialAFlight.
Good experience and very professional - well done
Cameron deserves a star, excellent help when needed
Thank you so much for your friendliness and efficiency when planning my trip
Cooper always provides an excellent service with honest advice and prompt responses. Thanks.
Only one slight hitch, I have driven an automatic car for more than 20 years. This was a problem as the car company said they would not have an automatic car available until APRIL!! In the event they found one straight away, at an extra cost
Nicole provides a friendly efficient service and I would recommend her to anyone wanting a personalised service
When the French astronomer Abbe Louis de la Caille made it to the top of Table Mountain in 1750, he observed no fewer than 10,000 stars and was so impressed that he named a whole constellation (Mons Mensae) after this iconic slab of stone.
Today, you're likely to see almost as many tourists coming and going on the cable car or huffing and puffing on foot. But that's no excuse not to join them – because once you get there the crowds become insignificant in such an exhilarating setting.
We had allocated 45 minutes to wander about on the massive plateau, but it soon became almost two hours – and still, like Moses, we were reluctant to come down from the mountain.
There's so much to do up there. You can hike, picnic, study the rock rabbits (hyraxes), admire the spiky plants that thrive with little in the way of soil, practise yoga, grow tipsy on the champagne air and even abseil down it if you dare. And, of course, you can survey the scene from every angle: oceans to the left, oceans to the right, beaches down below, cloudless skies up above, Cape Point somewhere in the distance.
I was last here 21 years ago, a few months before the first democratic elections were held – and the transformation is astonishing.
The waterfront, buzzing with shops and restaurants, is a little too California for me, but it's one of the city's great success stories. By comparison, the town centre is still sleepy during the day and has largely avoided a full chi-chi makeover. When our guide said we were off to the bus terminal not far from the impressive old City Hall building, it was a case of following on trust.
Our reward was an introduction to a chef called David, one of several who run kitchens housed in cramped wooden shacks. Lunch here is ten times cheaper than on the waterfront and, somehow, ten times more atmospheric.
But perhaps our best meal was at trendy Test Kitchen, presided over by Luke Dale-Roberts, probably South Africa's most celebrated chef. We stayed 30 minutes out of town for our first two nights, at Steenberg Farm in Constantia, the oldest vineyard (1682).
The whole place – its lush golf course, excellent bistro (wine tastings aplenty), intimate spa, manor house and colonial-style rooms – exudes charm and calm. Cape Town is a bubble compared with the rest of the country – and locals of every creed and colour seem to know that.
I detected no smugness, no sense of entitlement. Rather, an acute awareness that this is a work in progress. And just as the physical backdrop plays such a huge part here, so too does the political backdrop.
I couldn’t find anyone with a good word to say about President Jacob Zuma. Some think he could be gone within 12 months, despite his term officially having almost four more years to run.
Visiting a country that remains on a political knife-edge is exhilarating – and I was very much struck by how Nelson Mandela still has such a powerful influence; always will. His presence is everywhere: on street names, on billboards and, crucially, within the hearts of all South Africans.
We made the pilgrimage to Robben Island, where he spent 18 of his 27 years in captivity, joining a tour led by a fellow former inmate. It could be so much more interesting than it is, but if you've never done it, you must.
Visiting the penguins at Boulders Beach in Simon's Town is a good idea, too. Then head back to the city via the False Bay villages of Kalk Bay (lunch at Harbour House was sensational and we loved the ramshackle shops), St James and Muizenburg, the latter described as the St Tropez of Cape Town, which may or may not be a compliment.
The swimming is colder on the west side of the Cape, but the views better. We stayed at the fabulous Cape View Clifton, which opened two years ago and has only seven rooms, all facing the ocean, all whites and greys, with soulful art and comforts of every kind.
It's a glorious spot high above the beach, with Camps Bay round the corner. A beach house that feels more like a home than hotel. You help yourself to drinks and jot it down; guests wander about in the kitchen chatting to the cheerful staff; no one wears shoes.
The sunset on our last night was the colour of the rosé swishing about in our huge wine glasses. We drank deeply on both counts, painfully aware that the morning would bring a hangover made worse by the thought of flying home.
Amazingly, it is simple old-fashioned service that sets us apart from other travel firms. And yes, we really do answer the phone within 5 seconds!
Check out the reviews on Trustpilot and the word ‘service’ appears again and again. And you’ll find many reviews from customers saying they wasted hours trying to plan a holiday themselves before calling us - often on the advice of a friend - only to find we could offer numerous options not available online, which also saved them money.
Our team of 300 travel managers has been arranging tailor-made holidays for almost 40 years and we believe no one does it better. Judge for yourself.
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