"World Cup Guidelines......worth READING"

1. Schools will be closed for almost over 4 weeks during the World Cup - it was apparently legislated last week. What do you do with your kids?
2. Air tickets to Cape Town (for example) will cost about R8,000 per seat as some flights have to leave same night after the games due to accommodation problems in PLZ/CPT /DBN/BLOEM. So the flights will operate 24 hours. Expect NOISE. Expect TRAFFIC around airports all hours.
3. Fresh veggies and fruit will be scarce, if not unavailable, during this time. For the World Cup in Germany, they had to import them.
4. Traffic will increase by about 30% at the times of the games as fans go to the grounds or FANPARKS (games start at 13.30 , 16.00 and 2030 hrs. ) and matches are announced for December 4th. This is obviously the best time to fly - whilst matches are on!
5. Road areas around stadiums will be closed off.
6. It is expected that 550,000 people will be travelling to/from matches and 100,000 per match day… Expect considerable delays on match days.
7. There will not be parking available at airports - so arrange drop offs.
8. 4,800 buses will be operational and there will be restrictions on truckers/hauliers , etc. so we need to plan with clients and especially on containers needing haulage.
9. "Fan Parks" will be a huge attraction (see the list of Fan Parks ) and traffic to/from those areas will be extremely congested. At one Fan Park in Germany 500,000 people pitched up, consuming during the events, 3 million sausages, 1 million litres of beer, etc. Think of the logistics and TOILETS… !