South Africa's second largest air gateway, the Cape Town International Airport is located about twenty minutes from the centre of Cape Town, the South African city revered as the Mother City. This airport has won a great many awards. It was named the Leading Airport in Africa at the annual World Travel Awards for the years 1998-2004. In 2005 the Cape Town International Airport won the Skytrax Best Airport in Africa award. Famed and honored, the airport unsurprisingly serves many airlines and offers passengers some of the most excellent facilities among world airports.

Transport to and from the airport is easy. The hotels close to the airport, and for which you can make bookings at the airport, include the Road Lodge, the City Lodge Pinelands, and the Courtyard Suite Hotel.

The Cape Town International Airport has banks; a Bureau de Change; ATMs; a post office; mobile telephone hire services; Internet access; several lounges (including a smokers lounge, a VIP lounge, and an executive lounge); food and drink outlets (also a sports caf�); duty-free shopping and other shops; a VAT refund facility; baggage storage facilities; porter service; and baby changing facilities. What is more, you can hold meetings and conferences at the airport's venues with fully equipped offices providing a secretarial service and catering.

If you're heading straight into the heart of Cape Town from the airport, be reminded that this is one of the most glorious cities of South Africa. The city is famous for its harbor and its natural setting in the Cape floral kingdom. There are well-known landmarks here such as the Table Mountain and Cape Point and popular beaches like the Boulders Beach with its colony of African penguins. It is the city of surfers, too, and it hosts the Red Bull Big Wave Africa surfing competition each year.

Whether you are a nature buff or a culture searcher, Cape Town is a gift from the Creator that you will really cherish!

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