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October 11, 2006 Barrie Bramley The Quick and the Dead - case studies 3 Comments

Maybe it’s just my lack of skill and ability, and so I submit this post, open to learning from those who know better….

* I’m looking for the details of a Holiday Inn Hotel in Cape Town. I go to www.holidayinn.co.za. Seems reasonable right?
* I get re-directed to their UK site – Seems strange but I’ll go with it.
* I search for ANY hotel in their group in Cape Town – I get nothing
* Maybe it’s FireFox so I try in IE – still nothing

I can only conclude that tourism has finally taken off in South Africa, and Holiday Inn hotels are booked for the forseeable future. Or perhaps they’ve taken Robbie Williams advice when he was here, that we keep our beautiful country a secret from the world? Or perhaps they’ve levelled every Holiday Inn within a 30 mile radius of Cape Town (that’s what the search most suggested)

Whatever it is, I’ll be in the stable this evening : )

Click on the smaller image, for a larger image of what my search returned.

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  1. henryh says:
    October 11, 2006 at 10:32 am

    Had same challenge. It looks like you can find information on SA Holiday Inn’s on the Southern Sun Website : http://www.southernsun.com

    I have a 39page PDF (from the Discovery Website) that has a short description, pictures, contact details and address of all the Southern Sun related hotels in SA. Many of the names of the hotels has changed in the recent past. Don’t know how to get the PDF to u ??

  2. Dragon says:
    October 12, 2006 at 1:58 am

    I guess I got lucky. Try, here.

  3. sandy says:
    April 16, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    we are looking for accomodation 2 adults 2 kids -accomodation
    december 2008. 7-12-07 to 21-12/07

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