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Absolutely brilliant, great value holidays
We're just back from our second holiday with RSD. The first one was a fabulous trip to the UAE and this one (June 2019) was to South Africa. Yes, it can be slightly inconvenient not knowing the exact flight times until relatively close to the departure date, but that's one of the things we accept as it allows us to benefit from the great prices that RSD offer. Perhaps it's just coming from Scotland that makes us accept that we nearly always have to travel south anyway to catch a flight, no matter who we're travelling with, so we travel down a day early, stay in a hotel near the airport and make that part of our holiday. We were expecting to enjoy the South Africa trip, but have to say that it far exceeded our expectations. Our three hotels were all excellent, with great food and friendly staff, huge comfy beds, beautiful surroundings, lovely swimming pools, excellent standards of cleanliness - all can be highly recommended. We bought the extra gourmet package to have all our evening meals included, as we had done on the Emirates trip and it was well worth the money - £129 each, if I remember correctly. Our guide in the south was absolutely brilliant, a great personality and gave us just the right amount of unbiased information we needed. The visits we went on were fantastic, up Table Mountain by cable car, the Cape of Good Hope, penguin "hunting", a river cruise from Knysna, a township and really made the holiday. The highlight of the northern part of the tour was, of course, the Kruger National Park where we managed to spot four out of the Big 5, along with numerous other animals and birds. It was just unbelievably beautiful and moving. Other highlights included seeing and interacting with a wedding party - such friendly people - in the Union Building Gardens in Pretoria, a braii on our last evening, peacocks wandering in the gardens of our Pretoria lodge hotel, everything was just out of this world. Yes, there was a lot of ground to cover in such a short space of time, but we could never have made it this far or seen so much if it hadn't been for the great organisation by RSD Travel and their packed itinerary. This included a wine tasting and a liqueur tasting as well as a visit to a shop selling aloe vera products. However, there was a great atmosphere on all these visits and absolutely none of the hard-sell tactics of the Cyprus / Dubai / Greece holidays. We would not hesitate to recommend these RSD holidays and, in particular, South Africa and the Dubai / Abu Dhabi / Ajman trip.