Travel Forum / Destinations / Australia and NZ / January 2004

Has anybody any thoughts on who is the best airline to travel with, my old
mum will be travelling from London Heathrow to Brisbane in May or June this
year and would like somebodies opinions on the matter.
Thanks very much.

(Sorry if this is a repost. The original hasn't shown up (here) so I'm
trying it again.)
Just wondering what the pros and cons may be in visiting NZ (both North and
South Island) in March vs April, for someone who is not going specifically

Looking for some advice on chosing a 4 day getaway while my family and i are
staying in Sydney.
I have found (for approx the same price):
1. 4 nights at Byron Bay (including car hire,and therefore driving from

I'm travelling along the east-coast of Australia where I started in
Sydney and have now been in Byron bay (wonderful!) and and currently
in Brisbane, staying with locals I've met on the Internet.
Seen many nice places, kangaroos in the wild, a couple of koalas in a

I am planning a trip to Australia and New Zeeland. I am aged 20 and I
would like to rent a car. Unfortunately I read that it is not allowed
to rent a car under 21 because of insurances.
Do you know if there is any possibility to rent a car under 21?

I'm considering a vacation trip to NZ, and would plan to rent a car for 3-4
weeks.
I'd appreciate comments on how insurance works on car rental in NZ.
Some of the info I've seen so far indicates that car rentals come with "full

NZ Pacific Blue, Virgin To Offer Joint Regional Air Fares  -By
Christopher Niesche, Dow Jones Newswires
Thursday January 15, 10:58 pm ET   WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)--Virgin Blue
Ltd.(VBL.NZ), the discount Australian airline, said Friday that it

I plan to take the new train from Darwin to Alice Springs on October
13.  Sleeping accomodation is insanely expensive, and the less
expensive Red Kangaroo service is not available as singles.  If I book
it I may have to share a double sleeper with someone.

Hi,anyone knows tours in Tasmania for a week? I'll be in Melbourne in
march,and I'd like to spend a week in Tasmania....even alone,it doesn't
matter,but in this case ,I need suggestions about accomodations,what to see
and what to do,how to travel around,with buses or something else ...

hi...i am christine
i want to know about australia festival~
it doesn't matter what kinds of things~~~
please let me know~ name or date~~ ^-^

hello i am living in UK
also, i intersted in Australia
i heard that Australia has differnt season
so i want to know about Australia's season and if season is differnt

I'm carting the tribe off to Tassie today on the second sailing of the ferry
from Sydney
If anyone wants something investigated down there, let me know, quickly.

Hi Group.
I'm off to Sydney and Melbourne in April, and need to book some family
accomodation.
I'd appreciate suggestions as to which parts of each city to stay in, and

Hi everyone !!!
Is anyone familair with the rules for UK citizens regaring something called
defacto?? Basically, my girlfriend is from Australia, and I'm interested in
spending some time out there working, without the tight constraints that are

myself and a friend went around oz back in 1998
i now have a family inc 2 kids
we are emigrating in about 2 years
we want to plan at some stage when we are over there another similar trip to