World cup football 2010

I watched Sky news to see what information was available to football fans and was a little shocked. South Africa was portrayed as a bit of a dump after watching the clips. Cities in South Africa are big and very first world and modern, you will only find Africa in the countryside. It was also reported that there is very little accommodation available etc. Here are a few facts that I am aware of.

Fifa have done their best to tie up all available accommodation but numerous establishments including us opted out of this. You will be able to find accommodation but you might have to search a bit. If you cannot find anything then go through Fifa as they have kept a lot of accommodation on ice to be used through their agents. Check your prices out and compare the prices quoted to the normal seasons pricing. Accommodation is usually of a very high standard throughout the country but during this period there may be chancers.

Distances in South Africa are big. To travel between cities following your team might be problematic because we just don't have the infrastructure to transport these numbers around on top of our normal full internal flights. There will obviously be more flights and transport arranged. I would suggest you make a holiday out of your trip and stay in an area exploring this in between matches and watching away matches on one of the big screens that will be available all over the place. You don't have to stay in Johannesburg or Cape Town, for example, to get to the matches. The outlying areas eg Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Hermanus are not far out about 2 hours by car and there will be buses.

Travel agents that have not signed up with Fifa will have to find out who on the accommodation side etc have not signed up to arrange accommodation.

The quality of food and wine in the South Africa is very high so you will eat and drink well. Half the problem solved.

As I see more I will update