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Holiday to Australia

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  • 06-09-2011 1:57pm
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    coco_lola
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    My mother moved to Australia for work five months ago and I am hoping to fly over there for Christmas to see her. The only problem is with work I will not be able to take that many days of, excluding flight/travel time I would be over there for 2 weeks. Is it worth it to go for only 2 weeks for such a long journey? Obviously I feel it would be as I miss her very much, but if is 2 weeks enough to see what I need to see?

    Also, I will have 2 days off between arriving in Ireland and returning to work, how jetlagged will I be?

    If anyone has any ideas as to how I could locate cheap flights either comparison sites or direct flights, that would be great!


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    sonic.trip
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    coco_lola wrote: »
    My mother moved to Australia for work five months ago and I am hoping to fly over there for Christmas to see her. The only problem is with work I will not be able to take that many days of, excluding flight/travel time I would be over there for 2 weeks. Is it worth it to go for only 2 weeks for such a long journey? Obviously I feel it would be as I miss her very much, but if is 2 weeks enough to see what I need to see?

    Also, I will have 2 days off between arriving in Ireland and returning to work, how jetlagged will I be?

    If anyone has any ideas as to how I could locate cheap flights either comparison sites or direct flights, that would be great!

    The Jetlag will knock you back a day or two either side of the journey also taking into account it takes 2 days to get there and back you may lose 4 days depending on how the jetlag affects you. Also the prices to fly around christmas will be pretty high. Anywhere from 15 Dec - Jan 20 will be huge. I find www.momondo.com to be really good.

    I flew on the 21st January as that was the day the prices dropped, booked online myself with Singpaore and cost around 1400 euro return


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    andyjo
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    Jetlag will not be too bad going, once you get in to the sunshine + forget about the Irish winter you'll soon forget it.

    Could be expensive enough then though


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    coco_lola
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭coco_lola


    I actually got offered a ticket over, hence why Im going, I wouldnt go otherwise :) But I still don't want them to pay too much, hence why Im looking at as many different sites as possible!


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    coco_lola
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭coco_lola


    If anyone could give me advice on spending money too.. I have free accommodation and will mostly be cooking meals so that won't be factored in. I will be staying around Sydney so would like to know how much I would need for just under 2 weeks? I was hoping to save about 1200 euro, would that be enough?


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