Travel Comments - Backpacker Guide through Southern Africa

The basic idea of www.travelcomments.com was to create a comments-based travel guide through Southern Africa. Based on the experiences of backpackers and individual travellers it should be an alternative to the "established" guide books.
The tra:guide Accommodation Forum is about backpacker hostels, campsites and other budget accommodation in Southern Africa.

Pls note when you add a hostel to the board:

pls write the correct hostel name down
add, if possible, all facts about the hostel, e.g. postal address, phone number, email etc
the hostels surrounding is very interesting, e.g. are shops near by? etc
try to put the hostel's atmosphere into words
pls don't be too offending if you didn 't like a hostel
just be honest…

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Accommodation

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Room/Camping rates in South African Backpacker hostels

Camping - mostly around ZAR 50-65ppn
Dorm - mostly around ZAR 65-120ppn; Dorm rates are very much depending on the room size (number of beds per dorm) and the season. ZAR 120ppn, for example, can be the high season rate for a bed in a dorm in Cape Town.
Single room - mostly around ZAR 110-220; some hostels have single rooms, some others don't. If you really want to have a single room and they don't have one, they normally give you a double room where you can sleep in alone (which is not changing the rate for the double room)
Double/Twin room - mostly around ZAR 165-250/room. Again depending on the season of the year and other stuff like TV, private bathroom, en suite (or not) etc.