Jetstar purpose me a 10 hours transit at Melbourne.... crazy..

6.45am reach and departure at 4.45pm to auckland

typo, 4.45pm and not 4.45am

This post has been edited by angelgemini: Mar 25 2014, 10:45 AM

Exactly. Not worth it. That day Matta fair MAS return flight is RM3k+

My flight from Jetstar cost SGD1498 for 2 person return include meal and luggage.

Say about RM2k per person return. But transit 10 hours worrr. I'd rather pay the extra 1k for a direct flight.

if i know it earlier.. but stil will choose the transit if extra 1k per person.
with the 1k, i can do much more.


Now planning to have half day at Melbourne since is 10 hours transit or see any better option available.

Yea, or you could do a break journey and spend few days in Melbourne if you have not been there.

i do not think they will let me change the transit flight date.
if yes, this is a good idea as well since i never been to Melbourne.

If u are a member of Youth hostel Association,
can get 10% discount. Thus NZD30 become NZD27/day.

It depend on the season and hostel location as well, some out of tourism
location can get a cheaper rate like NZD26/day.( befero discount)

It is possible to travel with NZD200/week.

assume NZD27 perday, end up to NZD189 per week,

How about food?
how cheap it can go?

Cause actually i also still budgeting my coming trip.
i workout to be NZD1720 for 25night for 2 person.
Include BBH discount.

1 person = NZD860 for 25 night.
Average 34.4 per night per person.

For food, i budgeting about NZD 50 perday perperson?
i have no idea how expensive or cheap the food in NZ.

This post has been edited by angelgemini: Mar 25 2014, 11:41 AM

For food, if you can DIY your own breakfast/dinner,
For NZD40-50/week, you can get a pretty decent choice/ supply
of veg and meats. And this is for at least 2-3 person.
For this budget, i can cook a very nice western dinner, or some
good chinese dish, but it depend on how good yrs cooking skill
and ability to utilise the local food supply.

If assume that you will take lunch outside, a fast food
lunch can cost you average NZ12.00, added with the max 50/2 person/week
cost for DIY cooking-NZ3.60/day/person.

Thus, average NZ15-16.00/day for food budget will be
good enough.

Where is the best place to buy self cook food?
any advice?

There are supermarkets all over the place, like Pac n Save or Countdown. And usually if you buy above certain amount, can get discount for petrol also.

I do research online and find out need to purchase 100++ to get the discount...

I've read about people doing this budget before, hence I'm confident I'll be able to pull it off too
Cheaper accommodation might be to find room to rent, but I think it's on weekly basis

10 hours ok what, since you're going there for a few weeks at least.
if you're only going for a few days then might not be worth it to take a long transit

1k is a lot wei

you've been there with this budget?

food 50 per head per day is a quite a lot, i think u can eat lamb chop for every meal (just guessing, I've not been there yet)

This post has been edited by scpt: Mar 25 2014, 03:53 PM

there is this AAM card or some sort in those tourist magazine, we grabbed a few upon landing at Auckland. Offer a few cents off per litre on all your petrol purchase think it's valid at all BP and Caltex.

This post has been edited by bearbear: Mar 25 2014, 04:31 PM

Along your way to the tour destination or you see some big
hypermarket on the way, just turn in, parking is free. Like buying
grocery in Giant or Tesco in Malaysia, any hypermarket aslo
can, as long as you can grab cheap and fresh raw food, then load
into your car boot loh, overthey, the food can keep quite long due to
cooling weather.

Oh, remember to buy the 3 litre thetra-pack red wain they, alot cheaper here.
then u can prepare western dinner with red wain, cheap and tasty.

This post has been edited by youngman28: Mar 25 2014, 05:09 PM

But, if you travel with the car, more likely u will be changing hostel every night.
Is not pratical to find a room to rent base on weekly basis.

For self drive travel, unless you have alot of time, can do caravan,
neednot sleep in a hostel, can sleep inside the van, it much more
cheaper and enjoy.

This post has been edited by youngman28: Mar 25 2014, 05:31 PM

Too bad, not a fan of red wine.
But i like to cook, so should be no problem. haha
Thanks for the info.....

Going on winter, may end up freeze to dead at caravan at night.

did a search on cheap flight tickets in the topic and it seems like Jetstar is the way to go.

I tried looking at their site where to plan for a trip to fly straight to Queenstown but Christchurch is the closest one they have. tried using the site to book a flight from kul to chc and back but the website just refreshed without giving me any flight date options. I'll just try again when I'm at a PC.

I'd like to know of anyone has tried kul to syd to chc and then return? is that a cheaper trip?

for domestic flight, i take air new zealand.
but u need to use vpn with New Zealand ip to access the cheap ticket.
Else no cheap ticket for you.