holidays out of oz
Nov 7th 2006, 9:42 pm
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holidays out of oz
when living in Australia, how easy/cheap is it to go abroad....eg Fiji, NZ and Thailand? 
Nov 7th 2006, 10:50 pm
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Re: holidays out of oz
It's not!! 
The prices are scary when you're earning Aussie $.
That's why an awful lot of Aussies have never been anywhere!
We wanted to go over to QLD, so we got a price; $1600 each flights. (there's 4 of us) $120.00 per night at a Big 4 park. Car hire. spending money.
So we're not going at the mo. I'm a skint student, I'll have to wait until I'm working.
The prices are scary when you're earning Aussie $. That's why an awful lot of Aussies have never been anywhere!
We wanted to go over to QLD, so we got a price; $1600 each flights. (there's 4 of us) $120.00 per night at a Big 4 park. Car hire. spending money.
So we're not going at the mo. I'm a skint student, I'll have to wait until I'm working.
Nov 8th 2006, 12:23 am
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Re: holidays out of oz
You can get cheap flight to NZ and Fiji with virgin blue.
Jetstar are going to start flights to Thailand Japan and a few other places so this might get the price down a little.
Jetstar are going to start flights to Thailand Japan and a few other places so this might get the price down a little.
Originally Posted by brissydeb
when living in Australia, how easy/cheap is it to go abroad....eg Fiji, NZ and Thailand?
Nov 8th 2006, 12:23 am
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Re: holidays out of oz
Well thats what you get for living in Perth, you need to take a long haul flight just to go shopping 
Originally Posted by TraceyW
It's not!! The prices are scary when you're earning Aussie $.
That's why an awful lot of Aussies have never been anywhere!
We wanted to go over to QLD, so we got a price; $1600 each flights. (there's 4 of us) $120.00 per night at a Big 4 park. Car hire. spending money.
So we're not going at the mo. I'm a skint student, I'll have to wait until I'm working.
The prices are scary when you're earning Aussie $. That's why an awful lot of Aussies have never been anywhere!
We wanted to go over to QLD, so we got a price; $1600 each flights. (there's 4 of us) $120.00 per night at a Big 4 park. Car hire. spending money.
So we're not going at the mo. I'm a skint student, I'll have to wait until I'm working.
Nov 8th 2006, 12:24 am
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Re: holidays out of oz
Originally Posted by brissydeb
when living in Australia, how easy/cheap is it to go abroad....eg Fiji, NZ and Thailand?
Nov 8th 2006, 3:22 am
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Re: holidays out of oz
Originally Posted by brissydeb
when living in Australia, how easy/cheap is it to go abroad....eg Fiji, NZ and Thailand?
Adelaide - Auckland direct with Qantas was $684 each, return tickets.
Nov 8th 2006, 3:24 am
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Re: holidays out of oz
Originally Posted by themerlin
Well thats what you get for living in Perth, you need to take a long haul flight just to go shopping
Nov 8th 2006, 3:24 am
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Re: holidays out of oz
Originally Posted by arkon
I'll second what Tracy said, It's very expensive and the choice is not very good, If you go to Vanuatu or Fiji you may as well stay here or go to Cairns. Travel to Europe, USA and UK is way too expensive to to it very often. When you first get here and are still in £1=$2.5 converter mode it won't seem that expensive but give it a year or two and it will feel like you need to take a mortage out to go anywhere. Something else people forget to take into account is the distances involved and the time it takes to get anywhere worth going to, when you have a little nipper involved these long flight soon become a huge burden.
