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Trips to Oz

  • 01-06-2004 2:44pm
    #1
    aodh_rua
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭


    I'm trying to find an interesting holiday to Australia - maybe with a stop off in the far east. Ebookers seem to have some good ideas - can anyone think of any other good sites.

    Cheers!


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  • #2
    silverside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭silverside


    trailfinders

    thorntree.lonelyplanet.com

    do you want some suggestions here? If so tell us how long are you going for, what do you like doing, what's your budget etc.


  • #3
    aodh_rua
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭aodh_rua


    The best one I saw on ebookers was €1445 for 3 nights in Hong Kong and five nights in Sydney, including flights and accomodation. I wouldn't mind spending more time in Oz, maybe see more than one city. The Asia thing is nice but not essential.

    As for cost - under two grand is fine.


  • #4
    silverside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭silverside


    If I had 3 weeks I would (maybe) spend 1/2 days Bangkok - none of the other usual stopovers are worth spending time in from what I've heard (Malaysia,Hong Kong, Seoul).
    Then see melbourne/great ocean road, canberra, few days in sydney, fly to cairns and do a bit of diving on the barrier reef. Accomodation is easy enough to sort out yourself - flights are the part where you need a good travel agent and I think trailfinders and club travel are the best in Dublin.
    Sydney is OK but there is not enough in the city itself to occupy you for more than a few days, in my opinion - Its big and busy, like London.


  • #5
    Darren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 370 ✭✭Darren


    I've been to Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok. IMHO Hong Kong is far and above the best of them all, well worth a 2 or 3 day stop off and despite what a lot of people say it is very cheap. If you do go, check out the markets in Sham Shui Po and Mongkok, taking a tram to Victoria Peak is better at night. Take the airport express from Chep Lap Kok to Hong Kong or Kowloon, it only costs about 10 Euros. I flew out on Cathay Pacific and found it very cramped, came back on BA which was much better.

    In Oz, I like Melbourne, particularly St.Kilda, Darling Harbour in Sydney is nice but my favourite is Queensland. Cairns is party central, try and get to the whitsundays.


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