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News

Claire is coming with us, yay!!

Who

Alex, Michelle, Patrick, Jason, Shelagh, Roo, Stuart, Si, Ada, Dave Sharpe, Lucas and Claire

Travelling times and arrangements

Up:

We will be meeting at 1:30pm on Wednesday 14th July at the Shell garage at Canal Walk so that we can leave at 2pm. Budgetin 20 hours for the drive, we should arrive at around 10am on the following day (Thursday 15th July), giving us the rest of the day and the night to recover
!!!Down: Leave on the Monday morning as early as we can make it up, so getting home late on the Monday night/Tuesday morning early. I would recommend leaving Tuesday free. You'll need the sleep
!!!Distribution Chain-smoking Car - Schpat (Owner), Alex, Michelle and Shelagh
Semi-smoking Car - Lucas (Owner), Claire, Jason, Stu, Si and Ada Non-Smoking Car - Roo (Owner), Dave, Jason, Stu, Si and Ada
If people feel like switching at any point, that is obviously allowed. Just keep in mind driver rotations

Accomodation

Patrick has made booking for us at the Edenvale (I think) Formula1 hotel for the nights of Thursday 15th to Sunday 18th July

Price

Around R1100 pp for travel and accomodation. This obviously excludes food, registration and anything else you want to do while in Jozi

How does that break-down? I'm glad you asked!

Travel:

Each vehicle will travel a total distance of about 3000km, there and back. So that's 9000km in total. We assume an average fuel consumption rate of 8km/l this means we will need about 1125l of petrol. Then we assume a fuel cost of R4.60/l (R4.64) we get a total fuel cost of about R5175 (R5220). 12 people are going up, so that's a cost of about R430 (R435) per person.

Accomodation:

This one is simple, two people to a room room costs R209 per night, four nights that's R418 per person.

Total:

That gives us a total of about R850 per person. Add some cash for registering for the games and there you go. You may have noticed I've used a pretty pessimistic fuel price (although it's fucking spot-on now with all the price hikes - R4,64 is what it will be for Icon -- SynKronos) and consumption rate, but it's better to add some fat than to leave the budget too lean.
- Guys, just a friendly reminder, the petrol price in non-coastal cities is more than coastal. As far as I remember, the Jozi price is around R4,70 ATM. FYI - TheJuan