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South Africa Family Highlights

An adventure packed with unforgettable experiences for all the family.
Duration: 14 days
Location: South Africa
Highlights: Cape Town, Hermanus, Panorama Region, The Kruger
Price: £3,439ppSummer Offer : £3,174pp
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A perfect destination for keeping all the family happy, this 14 night family adventure stays in some super friendly family properties and offers the chance to experience some amazing highlights; Table Mountain, the penguins of Boulders Beach, great white shark diving, elephant back safaris and the thrill of a Big 5 safari in the Kruger.

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DETAILED ITINERARY

Day 1: London to Cape Town
Fly overnight from the UK to Cape Town.

Day 2: Cape Town
On arrival into Cape Town you will collect your family hire car and drive approx. 20 mins into the city, heading to The Three Boutique where you will spend 4 nights in interconnecting rooms. Old and new meet in perfect harmony at The Three Boutique Hotel – this beautiful National Monument building has been converted into a stylish, elegant, and affordable 18-bedroom boutique hotel in the leafy suburb of Oranjezicht, at the heart of Cape Town. Welcome to South Africa! Includes a “Stay 4 pay 3” Special. 

Days 3-5: Cape Town
Three full days to explore this incredible city! We highly recommend taking one of the best coastal drives in the world along the Cape Peninsula, stopping at Boulders Beach for some penguin spotting.

We can also arrange lots of family friendly excursions and adventures. See our Cape Town guide or call us to advise what would best suit your family.

Day 6: Cape Town to Hermanus & the Whale Coast 
Today you will drive 2hrs south to the Whale Coast to where your base for the next 3 nights will be – the family friendly Coot Club staying in a self-catering cottage, with breakfast baskets delivered each morning and a cafe on-site. With huge sand dunes on one side and imposing mountains over-looking a lake on the other, this is the perfect place to be amongst nature. And there’s plenty of activities to keep the family entertained, from paddle-boarding to sundowners on the dunes. Let us know what your family enjoy and we can find the perfect spots for a truly memorable family trip. 

Days 7 & 8: Hermanus & the Whale Coast
Two full days to explore the Whale coast and enjoy the estate. Activities in the area include whale watching in season (June to December), diving with the great white sharks, boat tours, river cruises, horse-riding, and wine-tasting in the many vineyards of this area.

Day 9: Hermanus to the Panorama Region
Head back to Cape Town airport this morning. You will then fly directly to KMIA Kruger Airport where you will collect your new family hire car, and drive 1 hour to Sabie, one of the gateways of the incredible Panorama Region. You will spend 2 nights in a family chalet at Bohms Zeederberg Country House, a lovely owner run guesthouse with a beautiful location and relaxing atmosphere.

Day 10: Panorama Region
Full day to explore the Panorama Region and enjoy the breathtaking mountain vistas of the Blyde River Canyon!

If you’re looking for a dose of adrenaline, you could go quad biking or river rafting, or you could arrange a guided tour to enjoy as much of the local area as possible. Talk to us about various tours and activities that are available to book in the area. 

Day 11: Panorama Region to the Kruger
Following one of Dawn’s sumptuous breakfasts you will drive approx 3hrs to the Timbavati region of the Kruger, heading to Kambaku Safari Lodge where you will end your family adventure with 3 nights of Big 5 safari in their family suite. In a nutshell – family friendly, intimate, nature focused and offering incredible game viewing! Settle in this afternoon with a dip in the pool. 

Days 12 & 13: Safari in the Kruger
Two full days of exciting game viewing in this predator rich wilderness. Catering for families, the lodge offers child friendly game drives and walks, as well as educational games to keep those little rangers busy during their safari.

Day 14: Kruger to the UK (via Johannesburg)
Following a final morning game drive and breakfast, you will drive 3 1/2 hrs back to KMIA Kruger Airport for your short flight to Johannesburg. On arrival you will connect with your International flight back to UK.

Day 15: Home
Welcome Home (safaris gets under your skin so let us know if you are one of the many who plan to return!)

 

Enjoy a dip at The Three Boutique

South Africa highlights

Cape Town City

Spot penguins at Boulders Beach

Coot Club

Zip lining, Panorama Region (or quad bike, horse ride, walk)

Cool off with a swim at Kambaku Lodge!

Spot lions in the Kruger

Thrilling game drives at Kambaku!

Thrilling game drives at Kambaku!

 

This South Africa holiday has a Summer price starting from £12,696 per family (based on a family of 4, children aged 5 – 11 years) and a price from £13,756 outside of the Summer months. It includes international flights (price based on London), internal flights, all accommodation on a sharing basis (as outlined above), 9 nights B&B, 3 nights All-inclusive on safari and 13 days car hire with AVIS.

Now let’s make this holiday yours
Want to add a few nights? Want to self-drive along the Garden Route? Want to tailor this to your family’s preferences? Fancy some beach time? Want to get some other hotel options? Let us do the work. Call 01273 923100 now or complete an enquiry form. 

 

The latest word on the street about South Africa holidays:

Her suggestions were amazing, our expectations were pretty high to begin with, but were massively exceeded in each place without exception. Each transfer went off without a hitch, and she’d primed each hotel that it was an anniversary celebration and we were greeted with champagne at every one of them, one of them even made us a cake!

Stewart Brooke South Africa & Seychelles

The selection of accommodation was exactly what we would have chosen from colonial Elephant house to coastal Lavender Manor. The fab boutique hotel in Cape Town was a great location for New Year celebrations and the trip to Franschoek and the winelands fabulous, not just the wine hic hic but the journey there and the spectacular scenery on the drive over.
Thank you for a great experience and abundance of memories.

Sue McCarthy South Africa

From the minute we checked in at the Emirates desk to the minute we landed back in the UK, everything was perfect. Our accommodation was WOW, our transfer drivers and trips were WOW. I don’t want to share where we stayed because they were so special and if we want to go back, I don’t want to find them unavailable!!!

Brenda Douglas South Africa

We can honestly say it was the best holiday we have ever had. The small boutique guest houses were all amazing and certainly gave us a real flavour of the country. We drove to Cape Town where our lovely hotel was a perfect base to explore this beautiful place and beaches along with all the sights.

Sue James South Africa

Jo arranged our once in a lifetime trip to South Africa and we could not have had a better time. It has been the best holiday we have ever had and will certainly be using Sundowner again for any other long haul trips. Don’t hesitate to give them a call – you wont regret it

Sally Dowell South Africa

We have just arrived back after the most incredible road trip around South Africa. Jo organised everything perfectly for us, we didn’t want to come home. We would even go to say it was our best ever holiday and we have been to some lovely destinations. The whole holiday was just perfect in every way.

Cheryl Gallo South Africa

We had a self-drive holiday to KwaZuluNatal which was a wonderful experience from start to finish. We can thoroughly recommend this part of South Africa. The people encountered were delightful and we are already thinking about a return visit.

Barry & Chris South Africa

The boutique Guest Houses Sundowners chose were exceptional – fabulous settings, quality and service. The whole trip was excellently planned and organised, no hitches at all.

Lucy Berkhout South Africa

We loved the safari in Zambia. Such brilliant, friendly guides. The diving at Thonga was another favourite because of the colours and variety of sea life. All in all, it was a great fun, exciting, informative and relaxing holiday.

Isaac Tilney Zambia & South Africa

We just wanted to say thank you for organising such a wonderful holiday for us. We had such an amazing 10 days and everything went just as planned. We would highly recommend James to our friends and the order that we visited each place was perfect. We were lucky in Cape Town as one of the days was warm and sunny so we were able to get up to Table Mountain before we left for Hermanus. We also braved great white shark cage diving and saw plenty of whales on our lovely walk along the Hermanus coastal path.

Lina Valent South Africa

Superb honeymoon – everything was taken out of our hands so we could completely relax. The quality and detail of accommodation and safari were perfect.

Melissa Mochrie South Africa

This was a holiday of a lifetime.  Apart from the financial investment, we invested a lot of hope in it.  It did not disappoint – everything worked from beginning to end. James designed an excellent itinerary which fully catered for our needs. Satisfying an age range 15-51 is no mean feat and all 6 of us had a great time.

The Chain Family South Africa

Such a fabulous time that it may require a return visit!  A big thank you to James for all his help with bookings and arrangements/advice.

Yvonne Phayre South Africa

Thank you so much for organising our SA trip. So appreciative of all the help and advice James gave me when planning it.  I shall certainly recommend you to my friends as an excellent travel agent to use when thinking of travelling.

Henry Johnson South Africa

We had a wonderful time – everything went well. Great time to go – schools were back so most of the time everywhere was quiet….driving easy and I’d forgotten they drive on the same side as we do! Thanks for putting together a great itinerary – we did lots of walking (forests and beach), canoeing, wine drinking, sight seeing …the Garden Route is such a wonderful part of the country!

Magda Flowers South Africa

Many thanks for all you have done for us for the holiday, it went to so well and all of us had an amazing time. It brought us together as a family and it was super time together.

Natalie Dylan South Africa

We absolutely loved South Africa, the whole holiday was superb – thank you for organising. We fell in love with Cape Town and Trevoyan Guesthouse, the location, restaurants, tourist attractions and would love to return at some point. And the best highlight was definitely Garonga, we loved it. Amazing location & hospitality. We would thoroughly recommend it.

 

Ines Delaware South Africa

Thank you for everything.  The trip went without a hitch and we really enjoyed every minute of it.  I should say a special thanks for suggesting Buffalo Ridge lodge, we saw loads, and the staff there were all fantastic.  It’s great that it really is a community lodge and it’s great to know you are promoting them!

Drew Cottrell South Africa

Thank you for the FABULOUS arrangements on our South Africa safari.

Victoria Medlham South Africa

The honeymoon was fantastic. The best experience. Everything went to plan no problems. The Cape Town car hire was a fantastic recommendation that meant we got to go everywhere. Garonga was just perfect. Accommodation outstanding and Food and service 5*. The highlight…. an encounter with a leopard on safari one morning, got the heart pumping slightly. Thanks for putting it together for us.

Matt Kelley South Africa

I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work with regards to our wedding at Garonga over Christmas.  Everything was perfect and all the people we came into contact with were lovely. We couldn’t have been happier.  The wedding at Garonga was just outstanding and the people at Four Rosmead genuinely couldn’t have done more for us.  Many thanks, once again, for your efforts which were so pivotal in making our dream wedding happen.

Bill Banyon South Africa

Thank you for organising our trip. We had such an amazing time, really a trip of a life time. Everything went smoothly bar a couple of days bad weather in cape town. All the accomondatipn was amazing but in particular Garonga, such a great place. We saw everything and the room, food and service incredible. I really feel that I couldn’t have had a better honeymoon.

Tom Cusston South Africa

Thank you for helping us to arrange what has been one of the best holidays we have ever had. We have seen so much-the most amazing scenery and an incredible range of wildlife that we have come back with over 3000 photos to sort out! Everything went according to plan,all the accomodation was top notch. So thank you again. We will certainly reccomend both you and South Africa to anyone showing any interest in going there.

Sarah Huxley South Africa

 

 

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Name : Lucy McKenzie

“I love the variety of opportunities that travelling gives you – new experiences, different cultures, incredible scenery and amazing food!”

 

Name : Hannah Martin

“I’ve always loved travelling and exploring, but really got the travel bug after backpacking in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia back in 2013!”

Name : James O'Farrell
"For me, holidays are about experiences that broaden my mind mixed with relaxation by being in the perfect surroundings."
Name : Jo Shuttleworth
"I love the escape of travel. The adventure of a new place. Having the time to appreciate the power of scenery & the intricacies of wildlife."

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    Best and most well organised trip ever been on. Every tour guide was superb! Incredible hotels and incredible staff. Guides and drivers at all the hotels were beyond expectation. We will be in touch for our next trip!
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    Excellent holiday in every respect. Absolutely stunning safari location - great views over river. Didn't want for anything. Guide Chris was fantastic and fun to be around. Delicious food and staff even made us a happy honeymoon cake! 
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