We used Gate 1 Travel. The tours are all guided and there is safety being in a larger group.
Suggestions:
-Robben Island
-Table Mountain
-The Peninsula tour. Takes all day, is beautiful and safe
-Victoria Wharf for shopping and restaurants
Avoid being alone or a small group and be in by sunset.
EC
Yes I went with a church group in 2017 to south africa.
We were a group of about 50.
We didn’t have any problems. While in Capetown we also did the things on your list except for Robben Island
But our tour guides were the best.
I lived in Manhattan for about 15 years. There I developed what can be called a predator radar. Donald Trump has the predator radar in spades. But I think most everyone who lives there develops it to one degree or another.
I left Manhattan in the early 1990’s. Since then my predator rarely goes off.
In south africa my predator radar went off maybe a dozen times over 10 days. Its lousy to feel like a prey animal.
Our guides did a good job of keeping the group just outside of real danger.
Even with the animals in the game reserves. At one point our tour car stopped right beside a group of maybe 6 lions feeding on a giraffee carcass. There were probably another six lions resting in the grass—whom we could not see. But occasionaly one would lift its head.
There the sense of being in a bubble of protection provided by the tour car was palpable. If one were to be so fool hearty as to step out of the tour car and walk on the ground seperate from the tour car—the lions would pounce.
That’s what a good tour group guide will do for you in South Africa. Keep you in a protective bubble. But you have to never forget that you’re in a bubble.
Step outside the bubble, and unless you made of the right stuff and have some real skills and equipment—you are prey.
Thanks for the advice. Table Mountain is on the schedule. Looking into Robin Island but that will take some time. I will look into the Peninsula tour.