South African National Parks has included a new pre-booking feature for day visitors in its online bookings portal.

The new function will enable users to pre-book their day visitor park permits for various time slots for several days at a time, alleviating waiting in the queue at the park gates.

Guests are able to book a permit/permits online for specific timeslots, such as entry from gate opening time to two hours after the gate has opened; two to four hours from the gate opening time; or four or more hours from the gate opening time.

Previously, advanced day visitor bookings could only be done for the park by contacting the reservations office. 

Acting Head of Communications, Reynold Thakhuli, said: “SANParks is continually developing ways to make our guests’ booking experience easier and this is the latest addition to our ever-evolving world of online bookings.”