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Cape Town & Budapest
« on: May 26, 2015, 07:49:09 PM »
Just booked the honeymoon for my fiancé and I, and we are looking to do two weeks in Cape Town in December and a week in Budapest in March. I've been to Budapest about 10 years ago, but heard its changed quite a bit.

Any suggested activities/must-sees from scoop nation?
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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2015, 07:51:12 PM »
Just booked the honeymoon for my fiancé and I, and we are looking to do two weeks in Cape Town in December and a week in Budapest in March. I've been to Budapest about 10 years ago, but heard its changed quite a bit.

Any suggested activities/must-sees from scoop nation?

If you are going to Budapest you need to leave the wife at home. Good Lord but Prague and Budapest offer the greatest natural scenery anywhere.


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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2015, 07:51:51 PM »
If you are going to Budapest you need to leave the wife at home. Good Lord but Prague and Budapest offer the greatest natural scenery anywhere.
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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2015, 08:28:57 PM »
Whatever happened to goin' to Niagra Falls for the ol' honeymoon, hey?
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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2015, 09:34:02 PM »
Whatever happened to goin' to Niagra Falls for the ol' honeymoon, hey?

I heard even that place changed for the better (cleaner but even more touristy).
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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2015, 07:14:12 AM »
I heard even that place changed for the better (cleaner but even more touristy).

I was there most recently this past summer.  I visited both sides of the Falls.  It improved markedly over the last 30 years.  The American side is basically a nice NY State park with views of the Falls, an Indian Casino, a Hard Rock Café and a very shabby downtown.  However, you can walk across the Rainbow Bridge to Canada.

The Canadian side has been fixed up nicely.  The area across from the Falls is a public park and the downtown area is a bunch of new hotels and remodeled shops and restaurants and a large Tim Horton's in the center of everything.  It still has it's share of cheesy haunted houses and wax museums but the facades at least don't look run down.   My cellphone was picking up the AT&T signal from across the river so there were no international roaming while checking Scoop on my phone.   :)   I'd recommend the 20-25 drive north to Niagara-on-the-Lake for all the wineries, road side fruit stands and for dinner a quiet town with nice scenery to get away from the ultra-touristy Niagara Falls.

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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2015, 01:00:38 PM »
wax museums

What's with wax museums, anyhow? They are disturbing in a macabre way...


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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2015, 01:31:51 PM »
What's with wax museums, anyhow? They are disturbing in a macabre way...

Funny you say that because my 11 year old did not want to go into one for that very reason, but my 13 year and our friends kids of the same age wanted to visit one because "there are Avenger's wax figures inside". 

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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2015, 04:34:30 PM »
This has so far been less than helpful
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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2015, 06:42:46 PM »
This has so far been less than helpful

We did a family thing to visit friends in Cape Town then Zimbabwe in the mid-90's (when SA was not a particularly safe place.) Cape Town is very nice but make sure you spend more time at Kruger National Park and Sabi Sands. You can do safaris and the lodging is incredibly well done. We had a passel of kids and in some ways wished we had done this sans enfants.

If this is really a honeymoon you should definitely do Sabi Sands. The safari gig should be about three days but the accommodation and locale would be a great honeymoon venue.   


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Re: Cape Town & Budapest
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2015, 07:18:19 AM »
We did a family thing to visit friends in Cape Town then Zimbabwe in the mid-90's (when SA was not a particularly safe place.) Cape Town is very nice but make sure you spend more time at Kruger National Park and Sabi Sands. You can do safaris and the lodging is incredibly well done. We had a passel of kids and in some ways wished we had done this sans enfants.

If this is really a honeymoon you should definitely do Sabi Sands. The safari gig should be about three days but the accommodation and locale would be a great honeymoon venue.   
Checking out the map, Sabi Sands is a flight. You're saying three days would be enough time to visit? Would you recommend longer?
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« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2015, 11:40:33 AM »
Checking out the map, Sabi Sands is a flight. You're saying three days would be enough time to visit? Would you recommend longer?

You have to fly there but you can't go to SA without visiting. We went to SA almost twenty years ago and thought often of going back - specifically for a return trip to Sabi. We had three kids so three days in the bush was enough given that circumstance. If it were just the wife and I we could have easily justified a week.

From what I understand, Sabi is even nicer today than when we went. It was always a destination for Brits to do the safari thing but as rifles gave way to cameras and tents became brick and mortar it has become much more refined and genteel.

During that trip we also went to Zim to visit colleagues who had a farm there (I was involved in some acquisitions with Philip Morris - the tobacco industry is full of Zimbabweans.) I wouldn't take a wife or family to Zim today if you paid me. If SA in the '90's was dangerous Zim today is lethal. Damn shame as it is a remarkably beautiful place. (I am not referring to the racial dimensions of political change but the profound lack of rule of law.)

If you are going to SA I would see Cape Town over Jo-burg but I would spend more time in Kruger/Sabi. You can get a similar Brit colonial vibe as one finds Cape Town in many places but you simply cannot find too many places that offer what Sabi is.

 


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