In Reply to: Cheapest way from NZ?? posted by buzzybee on Monday, 23. July 2007 at 13:38 Bali Time:
We have used Andrew and Grant to book our holidays three times now and you could not get a better, hassle-free process! We leave Saturday for Bali...yayyyy!
We live in Wgtn so we will be flying verrrry early on Saturday morning to Sydney with Air New Zealand then connect with Garuda in Sydney.
Coming back, because of the days we have chosen to travel, we will be flying to Melbourne via Garuda then to Wgtn via Quantas. With flying out so early we can sleep on the planes and catch up with missed sleep and will arrive in Bali at 2.30pm. This means we can go shopping for all our needs at the supermarket there and don't need to bring any toiletries etc like we have in the past when we arrived in about 8.30pm Bali time (closer to midnight NZ time!).
We book a package with flights plus six nights in a hotel - then do our own thing for the next 10 nights or so, booking online or just looking around when we get there until it is time to fly back. There is something very reassuring in knowing the guys you talk to are very familiar with the streets and hotels to which you refer.