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The holiday season is upon us, and to add to the excitement of family outings and activities that make the festive season unforgettable, Table Mountain Cableway has put together some wonderfully jovial experiences.

Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company is the overall winner, selected from the six category winners, of the 2011 Imvelo Responsible Tourism Award announced at the Imvelo Awards in Johannesburg (November 9, 2011).

Cape Town may still be a few degrees Celsius away from summer but in less than two months the summer holiday season, and all it brings to our sunny shores, will be here. At Table Mountain Cableway this means time for the popular Sunset Special that kicks off on 1 November 2011 and runs until the end of February 2012.

If you’re looking for ways to entertain your children during the Spring school holidays, or for a memorable and affordable family outing, then Table Mountain Cableway’s Kidz Season special will appeal to you.

Table Mountain Cableway will be closed for annual maintenance from Monday July 18 to Sunday July 31 this year. 

The 2011 maintenance plan includes major power line repairs and servicing the hydraulics and main motor gear box. Table Mountain Cableway is required to do annual maintenance to meet the highest global cableway standards set by the Swiss Governing Body for Cableways (BAV).

Table Mountain Aerial Cableway and Table Mountain National Park will call in experts to inspect the mountainside after three boulders landed in a bus parking bay near the lower station this morning (Tuesday, June 7, 2011). The incident happened at 08h20 before the Cableway Company opened for business at 08h30. No one was harmed nor property damaged by the rock fall.

Share the wonders of South Africa’s most celebrated mountain with your children during the Table Mountain Cableway’s Kidz Season, when two kids ride for free with an adult when an adult return ticket is purchased.

An independent impact report has predicted a R1.4-billion annual tourism bonanza for South Africa if Table Mountain is named one of the New7Wonders of Nature.

The Easter bunny will go to great heights to hide his chocolaty treats this Easter Sunday as part of an Easter egg hunt on the top of Table Mountain. Table Mountain Cableway is calling on Capetonians and holidaying children to join in the hunt between 10h00 and 13h00 on Sunday, 24 April, 2011.

The Table Mountain Cableway will be closed for annual maintenance from Monday, July 18 to Friday, July 31, 2011. This means that it will be open for business again on August 1, weather-permitting.