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Remote Year: Cape Town, South Africa 🌊🇿🇦

Name: Cape Town, South Africa
Start: 2024-11-17
End: 2024-12-14
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

8 December – 31 December 2024 · $900 / week*

Private rooms

Coworking included

Flights included

Attendance
40-80

Accommodation: Private rooms
Housing: Apartments & Hotels
Coworking
Flights

Attendance: 40
Capacity: 80
Down payment: $5,000
Price: $3,598 / month
Minimum stay: 4 months

10 Participants

614 Reviews

4.8

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Jodi Silbermann

Cape Town 🇿🇦

My remote experience in Cape Town was incredible! There were so many things to do, and I met so many amazing people along the way. I stayed in a fantastic location that truly made me feel like I was living the Cape Town life. From connecting with local vendors at the markets to enjoying neighborhood eateries, I felt like a part of the community. Natalie made the transition so easy and was incredibly supportive throughout my stay, which made a world of difference. I highly recommend this experience to anyone looking for an authentic and immersive time in Cape Town!

2 years ago

Kirsten Kaiser

Cape Town 🇿🇦

The 4-month journey across South Africa and Europe was truly such a magical experience. While the places themselves were stunning, our community leader, Florencia, went above and beyond to cultivate a healthy and loving community. I couldn't have imagined this journey without her leadership, as the group we were with made such an impact on everything from day-to-day life to weekend trips. Being able to visit such remarkable places with insights from locals paired with such an incredible group of people was such a privilege and an experience I'll never forget.

2 years ago

Ryan R

Cape Town 🇿🇦 Valencia 🇪🇸 Split 🇭🇷 Tirana 🇦🇱

A 4 month Remote Year Journey through Europe and Africa is the best way to experience 4 months in 4 different countries over 2 continents with Remote Year. During these 4 months we had a chance to visit Cape Town, Split, Valencia and Tirana. This was a perfect mix of experiencing Africa and Europe a great combination of countries and experiencing different cultures. Each of these cities offer something unique from the mountains to the beaches.
The on the ground city team in each of these cities were knowledgable, helpful and very friendly. They made you feel at home in their country always offering helpful suggestions and different ways to experience the country. Each of the experiences were well curated in each of the destinations. The accommodations in the apartments were all really nice, comfortable and had everything needed for a stay for the month. The coworking locations were all centrally located and made it easy to be productive for work.
Having done a 4 month journey through LatAm previously as well a several one month programs through LatAm, Europe and Africa this was such an enjoyable experience as a 4 month program. Mula was a amazing 4 month Remote Year Journey. Our traveling Community Leader, Florencia created a family oriented, friendly, inclusive, caring community within Mula. She constantly cared about the community creating events to build the community so others could get to know each other. Was always there for everyone and just created such an experience on this journey that I will never forget. This Mula journey may have been a lot different had she not been the Community Leader for it. She really made the Mula journey and community what it was and it's something that I will never forget. This was such an amazing journey that I will always keep in my heart. With memories that will last forever and creating life long friendships. Thank you Florencia, all of the city teams and Remote Year for this once in a life time experience.

2 years ago

NYCity Coffee

Cape Town 🇿🇦 Mexico City 🇲🇽

I have traveled a lot and had heard good things about Remote Year. I decided during a year of travel while working remote on my own I would sign up for a month of RY. I’m going to be honest about my experience because I don’t really feel like most of these reviews are reflective of the true experience (RY encourages city and trip leaders to have people fill out reviews and most people end up reviewing the leaders rather than the company and experience itself)

I had high expectations - usually when I’m traveling I meet people with similar values of learning different cultures. I’ve always made lasting friendships through experiences like studying abroad or solo travel. However, the vibes on this trip were off. Sadly I haven’t really kept in touch with anyone I met through RY.

For context, RY offers both year-long trips and month-long trips. On my month-long trip, they had us combined with a year-long group in the same city at the same time. I would have thought this would be a good thing because there wouldn’t have been many participants without both groups. However, I learned quickly that this makes for an awkward dynamic. The year-long group had already been traveling and meeting new people from the month-long trips for about 9 months. Some of them admitted that they really didn’t want to meet new people or put in any effort at that point. This led to the year-long participants creating an “inner crew” because they had already gotten to know each other and solidified friendships. I understand that perspective but honestly the value as a month-long participant drops significantly if they don’t feel others are truly open to making friendships.

Other people I met on the trip were there more to party than to learn about a new culture. There wasn’t really much that the leaders did to teach us about the new culture other than a short culture intro (30 min) at the beginning of the month. I had talked to some of the year-long participants about past trips they had taken, like in Cape Town, and was shocked to learn they hadn’t really learned anything about apartheid or visited the ample history museums in the city. I learned that the RY culture skews more towards partying than it does soaking up and learning a new culture. I’m sure some people are looking for that in their experience but I was not.

Lastly, I agree with the reviews that talk about all the add-on pricing. Although I do think the base price is fair and I like the new flexible options, the add-on experience pricing was a bit ridiculous (ie $50 for a hike with the RY group that you could do on your own for free). However if you don’t pay up for the add-on activities, there won’t be many opportunities to get to know everyone in the RY group.

In conclusion, there are a lot of cities (like Mexico City), I would encourage people to travel on their own and meet other travelers through coliving rather than the RY program.

2 years ago

Reply from Remote Year

Thank you for sharing your experience of your time in Florianopolis in July 2023. This is in addition and disappointingly contrary to the feedback we received at the time, which stated the group ‘meshed well’, and feedback was given as full marks across the board, including the experiences available and heralded the team’s approach to delivering a solid cultural understanding.

Often people traveling for a 1 month period intersect with groups who have been traveling for a longer period of time. Every effort is made to make sure groups are fully integrated and welcomed. This dynamic is the same as traveling remote workers who choose to travel outside of RY, but without the added advantage of dedicated Community Leaders whose role is to facilitate connection.

Part of efforts to build community, every month, are 7 official included experiences, which act as a bare minimum. This includes a City Introduction, a Language & Culture Class (av. 2hrs), walking tour, a welcome event and a farewell event, in addition to get togethers organised by the Community Leader. All of these provide great opportunities to meet other remote workers, without additional cost.

To note: In Cape Town, our City Welcome and separate Culture Class are some of the most extensive in all our destinations, and do in fact include a huge history of South Africa. No topic is shied away from, with the option of additional experiences to further learn more about South Africa’s past and present. Every destination we provide a huge resource list for members to also do their own learning, and suggest places to visit in the city to further develop various cultural understanding.

In terms of the hike in question in Florianopolis, for those who went on the experience, they would know that this day took in two locations and the costs for the experience included round trip private transport, a private yoga lesson with instructor and a separate guide from start to finish. We think this is clear from the RY Marketplace description, but we will make sure the City Team also makes sure to emphasise the full itinerary.

Feedback really is welcome, and we definitely take it all on board to see what we can address and improve upon. This is why we encourage honest feedback at the time of the experience.

Greg

Cape Town 🇿🇦 Valencia 🇪🇸

I've done one 4-month trip through LatAm and two 1-month programs (Cape Town, Valencia).

RY does their very best to make the experiences fun, inclusive, and exciting. I was going through a hard time personally at the start of my 4-month trip. I initially planned to only participate in 1-month but I stayed on for 4. Some of the friends that I made along the way are now very close friends of mine. If you're thinking of doing it, DO IT

2 years ago

Lori Callan

Cape Town 🇿🇦

Cape Town is a great city, but what makes the trip stand out is the city manager. Natalie Christodoulou is outstanding. She’s really organized, gets everyone what they need, plans great community events/trips and is caring and fun! She really makes a great city even better.

2 years ago

Kate Shar

Cape Town 🇿🇦

Cape Town is a great place to be and spend a few months. Natali made our stay very comfortable and entertaining.

2 years ago

Sara Bowman

Cape Town 🇿🇦

Cape Town is one of those places that’s magical for so many reasons. The city is so vibrant and alive, plus it has all of the best parts of nature to offer as well. RY created a fantastic experience for us and offered some great additional experiences. Flo and Nat were also the perfect city and community guides…I can’t wait to come back!

3 years ago

Haley Clark

Cape Town 🇿🇦

I just loved the countless community, the accommodations, and just the overall specialness of the culture and the city itself. It was amazing learning more about Xhosa, getting out of my comfort zone with Lionshead, and the hospitality of our hilarious and amazing city leader Nat.

I will most definitely be back and have already been researching flights back to Cape Town.

3 years ago

Giselle

Cape Town 🇿🇦

Rys Cape Town accomodation was amazing - the place was spacious and comfortable and the location was top.
The people were incredible

3 years ago

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