Beer is expensive - it's quite normal to pay £4 a pint, even if you buy from a bottle shop it's around £8 for 6 330ml bottles of beer. Spirits aren't cheap either a bottle of vodka it around £17 unless there is an offer on. If you drink wine though you can get some good deals!
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beware of the emu
Just this minute booked my flights! (well, most of them)
I am doing this:
London to Melbourne - 28Nov
Melbourne to Christchurch (NZ) - ~1Dec
Christchurch to Sydney - 18Dec
Sydney to London - 23Dec
I haven't booked to ones to NZ yet, but these should be ~£200 i think. However, i think i got myself a big bargain on the long haul flights! £400 with Singapore air
Though i have just paid £120 more for exit row seats, but that is still a good £300 less than anything else. There are some long stopovers though, but i am not too worried about that.
I am doing this:
London to Melbourne - 28Nov
Melbourne to Christchurch (NZ) - ~1Dec
Christchurch to Sydney - 18Dec
Sydney to London - 23Dec
I haven't booked to ones to NZ yet, but these should be ~£200 i think. However, i think i got myself a big bargain on the long haul flights! £400 with Singapore air
Though i have just paid £120 more for exit row seats, but that is still a good £300 less than anything else. There are some long stopovers though, but i am not too worried about that.
Coming back a week before a massive celebration...?
Personally I'd be wanting to see the new year in over there in Sydney!!
Have you seen how much it costs to stay in Sydney for new year?! Flights go up by about £500, and hotel rooms virtually triple in price!
Here's a quick example of hotel prices for new year! (first result from expedia)
30Dec £69
31Dec £148
1Jan £148
2Jan £148
3Jan £69
See what i mean?! Crazy!
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One thing I'm going to add from my driving experiences in the outback is:
Be very careful as the sun goes down and unbelievably extremely careful if it gets dark and you're still on the road. I destroyed a hire care hitting a kangaroo in the arse end of nowhere because they run across the road at the last minute and are bloody quick. After speaking to others, this is really really common.
I don't want (or expect) this to put you off, but it took me by surprise. If you can clear your day of driving before night falls then it wouldn't be the worst thing. Just hoping to enlighten you to something I hadn't given any thought to and no one told me!
Be very careful as the sun goes down and unbelievably extremely careful if it gets dark and you're still on the road. I destroyed a hire care hitting a kangaroo in the arse end of nowhere because they run across the road at the last minute and are bloody quick. After speaking to others, this is really really common.
I don't want (or expect) this to put you off, but it took me by surprise. If you can clear your day of driving before night falls then it wouldn't be the worst thing. Just hoping to enlighten you to something I hadn't given any thought to and no one told me!
Yea, the problem we've got though is that it gets dark at about 5pm at the moment and there are a couple of days where there is pretty much an 8 hour drive as there is nothing in between..
I was in the same situation Fox - Sometimes it has to be done. I just wanted to make you and others aware of it if you weren't already. Just be careful is all I'm saying - No one mentioned it to us and we, probably very naively, didn't approach it any differently to driving at night in the UK.
You are going to have an awesome time, And it's not that weird wanting a photo of a really long straight road!
I know I look a total muppet, but the sun was very bright, and the road was very hot!
You are going to have an awesome time, And it's not that weird wanting a photo of a really long straight road!
I know I look a total muppet, but the sun was very bright, and the road was very hot!
I was in the same situation Fox - Sometimes it has to be done. I just wanted to make you and others aware of it if you weren't already. Just be careful is all I'm saying - No one mentioned it to us and we, probably very naively, didn't approach it any differently to driving at night in the UK.
You are going to have an awesome time, And it's not that weird wanting a photo of a really long straight road!
I know I look a total muppet, but the sun was very bright, and the road was very hot!
Is that near darwin? It has to be the top end somewhere Broome, QLD?
Did you visit Townsville?
We were driving to Uluru, but we lost a lot of time getting recovered from Mt Isa, so we unfortunately had to abort and turn back to Cairns as we were all flying to NZ. Stayed in some really little places along Flinders hwy though, so it was still an awesome trip, the people in the little towns and stops on the road were great. The people really made that trip.
As someone else said (maybe you) Townsville is terrible. We stopped there for a night on our way back to Cairns with the thought of maybe staying longer if there was much around, but lets just say we promptly left the next morning and went and explored all the tablelands, drove out to Undara etc.
As someone else said (maybe you) Townsville is terrible. We stopped there for a night on our way back to Cairns with the thought of maybe staying longer if there was much around, but lets just say we promptly left the next morning and went and explored all the tablelands, drove out to Undara etc.
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I'm all booked.
My Flights with Singapore Airlines cost ~£750 in the end (which is good as I was looking at at least £850 a week ago).
15 October LHR > SIN (A380, upstairs cabin, exit seat reserved)
19 Oct SIN > SYD (A380, Upstairs cabin, exit seat reserved)
19 Nov SYD > SIN (777, Window seat)
19 Nov SIN > LHR (A380, upstairs cabin, exit seat reserved)
I've got a few days holiday in Singapore going over. Coming back I have an overnight stop over in Singapore which I prefer to break up the trip. I'll get myself a POD hotel or something for the night.
My Flights with Singapore Airlines cost ~£750 in the end (which is good as I was looking at at least £850 a week ago).
15 October LHR > SIN (A380, upstairs cabin, exit seat reserved)
19 Oct SIN > SYD (A380, Upstairs cabin, exit seat reserved)
19 Nov SYD > SIN (777, Window seat)
19 Nov SIN > LHR (A380, upstairs cabin, exit seat reserved)
I've got a few days holiday in Singapore going over. Coming back I have an overnight stop over in Singapore which I prefer to break up the trip. I'll get myself a POD hotel or something for the night.
