Originally Posted by
Happy
We had rental car all the time on both trips. Each time for 2 weeks. Rental car in South Africa is cheap
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Rental car is the way to go. Driving on the right is nothing to fear for. You get the hang of it after a couple hours.
Cheap for automatic transmission or only for manual transmission (stick shift)?
I drive a stick shift (Civic) at home, so I always choose a manual transmission overseas. In my one case where I checked at JNB, automatics seemed to be about the price of manuals.
And I would think getting used to a stick shift, if you're never driven one, is much more complicated than getting used to sitting on the right and driving on the
left. (The one thing I'd find disorienting is driving on the left but sitting on the left, which is what you'd get if you rented a car in continental Europe and took it into the UK. I use which side of the car I'm sitting on to remind me which side of the road to drive on
!)