Johannesburg Hostels - Reviews and Rates

As we emerged from the plane, we noticed a trail of dripping blood leading from the plane. We followed the trail of blood through customs, where luckily Brittany was not asked for her yellow fever card because she stupidly packed it in her checked backpack. The trail of blood continued to the baggage claim, where Sarah's bag refused to emerge. P...

Jul 31 - Friday
Landed in Joburg from Paris in the morning. Eventually found our driver - Sephiwo. Had a good chat on our way to the Grace Hotel in Rosebank, a suburb north of Joburg. He's an engineering student, paying the bills by driving - lives in Pretoria, 50km away. Kaizer Chiefs fan. He pointed out the "Joburg will be ready" s...

After waiting for a bed forever, Alli is out of ICU! She is getting her central line removed today and is now able to basically walk to the bathroom alone and is going to work on walking steps with the therapist this weekend! Now we are hoping she just has two more days left in the normal ward and can get out on Sunday or Monday. She is getting ...

We went on the three day Kruger safari with Acacia. Got up at 4.30 am to get picked up to go up to Kruger national park. The safari was amazing! Didn't see any lions (yet) but saw loads of other cool animals. Herds of zebra, giraffe, elephants, wildebeast, buffalo, impala, kudoo etc. It was so surreal! The campsites were amazing and we had some ...

So, every one started congregating on Rhett's house in Johannesburg in the few days leading up to the trip. Myself and my Cousin (Ryan), being from Queenstown, decided to go up early to get some partying in. We headed to Manhattan's on the friday night, where we met up with Marc, Rory, Celest, Jess, Valdette, John and Kath. It was a pretty big n...

We're back in Jo'berg for 1 more night at the Westcliff Hotel. Even though we've only been gone a week, we feel like it's been a month since we were last here! We packed so much into the past week in Botswana. This is really a short visit to Jo'berg - some 12 hours as we are on a morning flight to Gaborone, where I will be working next week.

Wednesday morning we were up a bit before 5:00 so as to be ready for a 6:15 departure. I accompanied Marjolaine out into the dark streets to the house of the woman who did our laundry. We were accompanied as we went by dog-barking, rooster-crowing and the sound of a cat fight or two, as the sky began faintly to brighten in the east. Laundry in h...

The first thing in the morning was to find out if the American had found the hippo. As it turned out he got up to go to the toilet at 04.30 and walked straight into the hippo, he thought that he had left a chair there but copped on that it was his hippo, and he could not believe his eyes. He thought it was the funniest thing he'd seen in years! ...