<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Are the "Wow Capetown Travel and Tours” prices correct? They seem really expensive (e.g., US$45 is around 600ZAR, compared to 400ZAR for an Uber in both directions without sharing - the US$80/day tours seem extremely expensive!).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BTW, I’ve put some currency conversion estimates at:</div><div class=""><a href="https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Currency" class="">https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Currency</a></div><div class="">and have created the template at:</div><div class=""><a href="https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Currency" class="">https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Currency</a></div><div class="">that might be useful to add to the info pages.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Mike</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 8 Jul 2018, at 18:22, Ellie Young <<a href="mailto:eyoung@wikimedia.org" class="">eyoung@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default">There are several options, and yes that is a bus shuttle and the costs are listed.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default">See:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_transportation" class="">https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_transportation</a><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Andy Mabbett <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk" target="_blank" class="">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you.<br class="">
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As I have just posted on the page's talk-page:<br class="">
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"How do we get to the city centre/ event venue from the airport? The<br class="">
Cape Town page says to use MyCiTi - that's a bus, I think, but it's<br class="">
not clear. What does it cost? Is exact change needed? Do we pay on the<br class="">
bus, or at the airport?"<br class="">
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On 30 June 2018 at 09:19, Peter Southwood <<a href="mailto:peter.southwood@telkomsa.net" class="">peter.southwood@telkomsa.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
> Updated, let me know if more information is needed.<br class="">
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> Cheers, Peter<br class="">
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> From: Wikimania-l [mailto:<a href="mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org" class="">wikimania-l-bounces@<wbr class="">lists.wikimedia.org</a>] On Behalf<br class="">
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikivoyage page for Wikimania 2018<br class="">
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> Fixed link:<br class="">
> <a href="https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikimania_2018_Cape_Town_Guidebook" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikivoyage.org/<wbr class="">wiki/Wikimania_2018_Cape_Town_<wbr class="">Guidebook</a><br class="">
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> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:22 AM Andy Mabbett <<a href="mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk" class="">andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk</a>><br class="">
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> Wikivoyage:<br class="">
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> <a href="https://en.wikivoyge.org/wiki/Wikimania_2018_Cape_Town_Guidebook" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikivoyge.org/wiki/<wbr class="">Wikimania_2018_Cape_Town_<wbr class="">Guidebook</a><br class="">
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> has a page with advice for Wikimania attendees. It's a good start, but<br class="">
> needs more local knowledge. Please help to improve the page if you can<br class="">
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> For instance, South Africa uses both "Europlug" and "type D" power<br class="">
> sockets - but which is most prevalent at the city's hotels, and the<br class="">
> conference venue?<br class="">
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