We hope to travel to Sydney via Hong Kong in july next year, some of you folk travel to Australia fairly frequently any advice on travel agents or flight agencies to use/avoid, should we book the whole package or contact the hotels directly?
cheers
Ray
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Oh, and good luck TCE, bon voyage!
P.S My mum & dad are currently out there and have been telling me how badly the exchange rate is affecting things and everything costs a bomb....I might be waiting until the exchange rate improves a bit or I won't be able to afford to do anything - I hope I don't have to wait ten years for that to happen!
Thanks for the info, Tel.
Two and a half grand we paid 5 years ago plus spending money, we are now being quoted Six grand!!
I would book the flights seperately as you probably can get a better deal but Bridge &Wickers are specialist travel agents for Aus. They are very knowlegdgeable about where to go and getting decent accomodation. I would highly recomend them.
However it is expensive there at current exchange rate - I was there couple of weeks ago on business and was noticeably more expensive than couple of years back. As for someone commenting on house prices they are now far more than Sevenoaks in any decent area of Sydney.
Air Asia from what I've heard is a very good service for the money. Normally I wouldn't recommend Royal Brunei, but I've heard they've just upgraded their fleet to Boeing 777's.
Think coach trip to Carlisle times 3
PS - I would never use a specialised travel agent for anything other than flights as sometimes they can get good deals from the airlines on them but anything else such as internal flights, accomodation, special tour trips etc then I'd do it directly via the net. I've always found it cheaper and if you have the time to do it it's more fun researching, planning and then booking your own itiniary.