THE Automobile Association of South Africa has launched its own real-time, one-stop online travel agency.

The site, www.aaholidays.co.za, offers bookings for local and international travel. All the bases are covered, from accommodation to flights to car hire. Travellers can book cruises through the site or search for last-minute bargains on flights or package deals.

There is even a travel news section as well as an advice department offering hints on how to travel happily by, say, making your rands stretch in Europe.

As one would expect from a website run by a car organisation, there is also a pretty comprehensive section on crossing SADC’s borders in your own car. Now, you definitely have no excuse for not knowing what vehicle paperwork you really do need to have when you drive across the border into sunny Mozambique.

For those who prefer not to use the do not use the Internet to plan of book travel, the AA has also introduced 16 Travel Experience travel agencies, where a they use a travel consultant will plan and book the trip. For information, phone 083 84 322.

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