After a small lie in, we woke up to great coffee and homemade jam.We played a few games in the garden before we dropped off the hire car, which sounds fairly simple but ..
we found out yesterday that the car hire office is closed on a Sunday, today. It is however ok to leave the car at the rental office but you then become responsible for the car until 4 hours before the office opens. Monday is a national holiday, so it is likely the office is still closed. Having thought this through, the car would be left outside for one and a half days, unattended and not 'checked back in' in the centre of a city! A little too risky for us, so we hatched a plan! There is an airport in PE which has a car hire office. We spoke to them, rearranged to drop the car with them. Simple! Next we arranged a lift from the airport to the original office because that is where our next bus goes from. Confused?
We are now on an overnight bus to Pretoria having been treated to a traditional South African pokjie cooked on the braai before we left. What a treat, it tasted amazing, all washed down with some fantastic South African pinotage!
We did have a small issue with checking in for the bus ... Luggage allowance is 23kg per person in 2 bags. That was fine because our bags are under 10kg and we have one each. However, instead of having another bag each, we packed the tent and duvet in a cardboard box. The box weighed about 5 kg, so we are still well within our limit BUT ... Sir you have to pay extra to take a cardboard box, it is the rules! Rather confused, we removed the duvet to take on the bus, strapped the tent to one of our bags and there was no longer a charge. The
cardboard box was gone and so was the extra charge!
we found out yesterday that the car hire office is closed on a Sunday, today. It is however ok to leave the car at the rental office but you then become responsible for the car until 4 hours before the office opens. Monday is a national holiday, so it is likely the office is still closed. Having thought this through, the car would be left outside for one and a half days, unattended and not 'checked back in' in the centre of a city! A little too risky for us, so we hatched a plan! There is an airport in PE which has a car hire office. We spoke to them, rearranged to drop the car with them. Simple! Next we arranged a lift from the airport to the original office because that is where our next bus goes from. Confused?
We are now on an overnight bus to Pretoria having been treated to a traditional South African pokjie cooked on the braai before we left. What a treat, it tasted amazing, all washed down with some fantastic South African pinotage!
We did have a small issue with checking in for the bus ... Luggage allowance is 23kg per person in 2 bags. That was fine because our bags are under 10kg and we have one each. However, instead of having another bag each, we packed the tent and duvet in a cardboard box. The box weighed about 5 kg, so we are still well within our limit BUT ... Sir you have to pay extra to take a cardboard box, it is the rules! Rather confused, we removed the duvet to take on the bus, strapped the tent to one of our bags and there was no longer a charge. The
cardboard box was gone and so was the extra charge!