Tipping Many waiters and waitresses are university students who rely on tips to pay their wages. A tip of R2 per piece of luggage is acceptable to porters in hotels and at airports. There are no time zone differences in South Africa and South Africa has not adopted a daylight time saving system in summer. The train ride from Cape Town to Kalk Bay or Fish Hoek can be a wonderfully relaxing way of preparing a day at the beach. Trains travel as far as Simonstown.
Tourists can use several special bus services.
As the name suggests, you can hop on and off as often as you like. Another bus service you may want to use operates between the airport and the city centre. Minibus taxis and private cars have to a large extent taken the place of buses and trains. Hundreds of thousands of Capetonians take minibus taxis every day and they offer convenient and sometimes hair-raisingly fast transport along major routes, typically the Main Road from Sea Point right around to Wynberg in the Southern suburbs. As aggrieved local motorists trailing behind a taxi will tell you, boarding points are whenever and wherever you can get the driver to stop - usually with no warning.