Cheapest/best way of going UK to Brisbane, Australia?

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Seen it for about £1000 each return.

Stopovers are long so considering flying somewhere for a stopover for a couple of days as neither one of us copes with traveling and fatigue on long journeys.

Where's the best stopover point? Thinking maybe stopover somewhere for couple of days. Seen Dubai, or Hong Kong? What about Los Angeles? Although LA is a long flight on it's own.....

Where do people recommend?
 
Raymond Lin said:
Singapore.
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Agreed. Unless you intend to make a little mini-holiday out of the stopover, I'd just rent the little airport hotel thingy that they have for a few hours kip and a freshen up and then get on with it. It's a crap journey but Oz is definitely worth it and a few hours (in our case 8) in one of those little hotels does wonders for the fatigue.

Avoid Air China, we learned that the hard way. The Chinese have a very different culture to us and their inconsiderate ways (by western standards) will have you wanting to murder them after sitting in a steel tube with them for 12 hours solid.
 
I would have said Singapore too, as I usually stop off there for a couple of nights, but with their current health related restrictions, I'd say pick somewhere else.
 
Singapore or Hong Kong if you want to stopover. Personally I think HK is much more interesting.....but whichever you choose, check the current COVID rules.
 
mid_gen said:
Singapore or Hong Kong if you want to stopover. Personally I think HK is much more interesting.....but whichever you choose, check the current COVID rules.
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If Covid rules in Hong Kong are anything like mainland China, I wouldn't go anywhere near it for a layover. I've read a few horror stories if people getting forcibly quarantined.
 
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benjii said:
If Covid rules in Hong Kong are anything like mainland China, I wouldn't go anywhere near it for a layover. I've read a few horror stories if people getting forcibly quarantined.
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Rules are different to mainland China, and have eased in recent months, I have a lot of friends still there. Things have mostly opened up now.
 
Hong Kong is more interesting but both equally does the job for a stop over. Both small, both speaks English and both have great food.

If it’s a short stop over and not leave the airport then Singapore definitely wins.

I think your money goes further in Singapore at the moment compared to Hong Kong. If that matters for a short stay over.
 
Thanks for all the opinions. Very helpful as COVID-19 restrictions hadn't occurred to me. I think I would prefer Hong Kong but I don't know how restrictive it is now but thanks for the input on what people have heard.

I only ask about LA as it came up as one of the options.

Last time I flew to Australia I stopped at Dubai and wasn't particularly enamoured by it but I didn't leave the airport as I was on my own but I don't feel I missed out.
 
Qantas do a direct flight into Darwin with a short 90 min layover then on to Sydney.

I know my gf did this earlier in the year to go back and visit her family and she said it was great to get the bulk of it out of the way.

Still have to go Sydney > Brisbane but if you can get a flight with another short layover you can get all the travelling done within 22 hours or so.

Big believer in getting the flight done and dusted as quickly as possible.
 
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