When travelling from the UK to South Africa you do not need to apply for a visa. You must however have a full valid passport that is not due to expire within the next 6 months of the date of outwards travel and not be staying in South Africa for more than three months.

When travelling to South Africa with children under the age of 18, you’ll now need to produce the child’s full birth certificate as well as their passport. (The full certificate is the longer one that includes the parents’ details too.) Photocopies are not acceptable and anyone with a UK passport must also take the child’s birth certificate with them, a passport alone is not sufficient.

A flight from the UK to South Africa is approximately 12 hours so if you are taking children, you may wish to take some sort of entertainment for them or be sure to check that your flight has in flight entertainment. You may also wish to consider booking a meal or two for the flight.