Author Topic: Trip Report: Etihad Glitch Fare (UAE, Vic Falls, Chobe, Joburg, and Cape Town)  (Read 32480 times)

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Great TR and beautiful pics!!

Thank you!

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Well then I'm glad we lived to tell the tale. I won't advise anyone here what to do; I'm just telling them what we did and didn't do.

I would suggest you wait a few weeks and if you get no flu-like symptoms then you're fine.

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Nice thanks for sharing, And beautiful pictures!!!

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Nice thanks for sharing, And beautiful pictures!!!

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed!

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Great TR and pics!

I'm doing my glitch trip in September.

How did you like Mango Airlines from JNB-CPT?

Flysafair is a bit cheaper trying to book the flight soon..

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Great TR and pics!

I'm doing my glitch trip in September.

How did you like Mango Airlines from JNB-CPT?

Flysafair is a bit cheaper trying to book the flight soon..

Thank you. You are in for an amazing adventure.

Mango was great. It was very cheap, but the airline itself did not feel cheap (ahem, Spirit/Frontier…). Would recommend.

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Okay great. Mango seems a bit more legit.

Do you recall if there was a luggage fee?

Flysafair has a fee for luggage.

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Okay great. Mango seems a bit more legit.

Do you recall if there was a luggage fee?

Flysafair has a fee for luggage.

I don't recall off hand. Sorry. But you should be able to easily google that info.

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Okay great. Mango seems a bit more legit.

Do you recall if there was a luggage fee?

Flysafair has a fee for luggage.

Mango does not charge for the first piece of luggage. Same as Kulula another awesome low-cost there. Would recommend both of them.

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Thanks for the reply. Kulula was more than the other two. Going to book with mango.

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Quite a bit more than the $59 a night we paid in VF.

@Yaalili   Which hotel did you stay at in VF? I was looking at the Protea to maybe use marriott points. Also how much did you anti-malaria pill cost?

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@Yaalili   Which hotel did you stay at in VF? I was looking at the Protea to maybe use marriott points. Also how much did you anti-malaria pill cost?

N1 hotel is where we stayed. There was no Protea when we were there. Don’t recall the Malaria pill costs, my friends doctor prescribed it and we shared.

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Just FYI- the anti-malaria isn't expensive ($17) but the typhoid vaccine pill is about $100.

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Great TR! Thanks for the info!
+1, awesome stuff!
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LOL. Just stumbled across this TR and realized, I'm one of the DDFers @Markus bumped into in the lounge in AUH.
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