{"id":4882,"date":"2009-10-22T02:33:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T00:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2009-10-22T02:46:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T00:46:47","slug":"cape-town-2nd-best-city-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-town-2nd-best-city-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town 2nd best city in the world!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cape Town has been voted as the second favourite holiday city in the world by more than 19 000 UK Guardian<\/strong> and Observer <\/strong>readers.\u00a0\u00a0 The Mother City ranked 7th last year, and has made a fantastic leap to follow Sydney, as the favourite overseas city, into second place.\u00a0 New York, San Francisco and Berlin followed as 3rd, 4th and 5th favourite overseas cities.<\/p>\n

South Africa did less well on the vote for favourite long-haul overseas country, especially with the 2010 World Cup coming up, and was not included in the top 5 list of New Zealand, Cambodia, Chile, Vietnam and Japan.<\/p>\n

Switzerland, Norway, Austria, Sweden and Italy were the top five European countries voted for by the British readers.<\/p>\n

Swiss was voted the best short-haul airline, and Singapore Airlines the best long-haul and best business\u00a0airline.\u00a0\u00a0 Silversea Cruises won the best cruise line vote.\u00a0\u00a0 Eurostar was voted the best train company.\u00a0\u00a0 Taj Hotels won the best international hotel vote – a Taj Hotel is due to open in Cape Town soon.<\/p>\n

In the “Ethical travel award category”, Bulungula Lodge in the Eastern Cape won second place.\u00a0\u00a0 It is located on the Wild Coast, and was one of the first Fair Trade accredited lodges, and runs on solar power, reports sagoodnews.co.za<\/strong>.\u00a0 www.kayak.com<\/a>\u00a0won the vote for the best travel website.<\/p>\n

The full list of awards can be read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cape Town has been voted as the second favourite holiday city in the world by more than 19 000 UK Guardian and Observer readers.\u00a0\u00a0 The Mother City ranked 7th last year, and has made a fantastic leap to follow Sydney, as the favourite overseas city, into second place.\u00a0 New York, San Francisco and Berlin followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,22,21,11],"tags":[264,2472,854,2479,32366,32378,2477,2480,2474,188,1783,2471,2469,543,2476,296,32388,2473,2475,2470,542,2478,2468,1076,32373],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t