Comments on: Peter Delmar – Greed killing our World Cup prospects

By: Gary Loftus

Gary Loftus — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:28:03 +0000

My wife and I travelled 10 thousands kilometers around South Africa and Botswana 4 years ago. We stayed with friends and B+B,s In B+B,s we paid between 250 to 375 Rand for the both of us. ( no breakfast with the 250) I had to haggle to get the 250 Rand. Prices there now are stupid, I asked for a place in Ballito, north of Durban and they wanted 1600 Rand a nite !!!!! and that was for Oct or Nov this year. We have friends around South Africa, so will make a point of not getting riped off.
I hope people will boycott the soccer games around that country. and screw them !!!!

Calgary, Alberta

By: DelBoy

DelBoy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:16:43 +0000

People always assume that because the Rand is generally weaker than most other currencies they can charge more.

When I was home in March last year, the only thing that I found relatively cheap was eating out and booze. Hotels were generally expensive and car hire was ridiculous (although this is understandable because of the cost of insurance.)

And this is exactly what happened in Greece before the Euro was introduced. It was cheap, hordes of tourists arrived, the Greeks got greedy, put up their prices and lost the tourists to places like Turkey and Croatia.

Good luck Sue and your fellow greedy b@stards!
.-= DelBoy´s last blog ..Homebrew II – Bottling =-.

By: Helga Hansen

Helga Hansen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:56:26 +0000

Old Heav’ has taken a shine, eh? Shall I call the press and score myself an earner? You could get lessons from that French model Terry was testing – I think she’s getting £250k from her victim impact statement…

By: Heather Mills

Heather Mills — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:40:37 +0000

As I’ve said before… I am not wasting what is left of my divorce settlement on your lot!

I need to take my Lexus LS460 into the garage now, on the way to the hairdressers this morning the pedal got stuck and I mowed down two lollipop ladies… let me tell you, blood does not look gold on gold paintwork!

By: Helga Hansen

Helga Hansen — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:40:46 +0000

Never too late to drop prices!! Although Sue’s not going to be happy – she’s decorating, remember! Nice, shiny, spotless (empty) rooms… perfick!

By: C @ back of the net

C @ back of the net — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:38:39 +0000

Hi Peter I hope you don't mind but I am going to put a link to your article on my site as I think my readers will find it interesting .-= C @ back of the net´s last blog ..Redknapp is puzzling the Fans =-.

By: sam @ football socks

sam @ football socks — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:34:05 +0000

I sympathise totally with your opinion with regard to World Cup travel rip offs. Unfortunately it is a global problem related to anything travel related. Here in the UK there is always a price hike for big Champions League match flights. I remember people complaining that they were having to pay £2000 to fly from Liverpool to Athens for the Final on the most basic of airlines. It is a similar principle to school holiday prices being far more than the surrounding weeks for vacations. Its unlikely that you will see any reductions. But you only rip somebody off once and if you do they never come back.