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Trumpcard
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:21 am Post subject: Travelling to Australia on the cheap |
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I'm going to see family in Melbourne and Sydney and catch up with a student in Rockhampton during the first 2 weeks of May. WAnt to spend the 2nd two weeks chilling out somewhere before heading back to Korea.
Any Aussies flown cheaply to Australia? I'm thinking of flying to Darwin or maybe even Cairns first then getting a budget flight to Rockhampton and go from there....
I did read somewhere a long time ago about super heap flight from Vietnam to Darwin and then getting a Virgin Blue flight to a big city...can anyone vouch for this? |
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soviet_man
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul
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spencer23
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:02 am Post subject: |
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Most flights from Darwin are quite expensive. Like the other poster said check out Air Asia X
or other options are Jet Star jetstar.com out of Singapore or Bangkok
or Tiger air out of Singapore.
My brother in law used to live in Darwin and for a return to ticket from Sydney to Darwin sometimes was more expensive then Sydney to Singapore.
Where is your intial departure from? |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| I recently flew from Korea to Sydney with a stopover in Bali on Garuda Indonesia airlines. It was the cheapest deal around, but Garuda Indonesia sucks like a broke crack head on a pimp. I paid about $1,400 US return ticket. |
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collegeboy
Joined: 06 Jun 2007
Location: Janhangpyeong - East Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| hey i was looking into flying to australia on the cheap as well, i was thinkin of this ---> take a train down to busan, take the ferry over to fukuoka then train it to osaka where u can get flights on jetstar to sydney or melbourne for around 250 bucks...i mean its a bit of a hassle but if you figure the ferry is like 75 bucks, the trains couldnt be more than 50 and the flight is 250 all in, thats pretty low on the price scale...just a thought, and it might happen considering i just found out im getting fired at the end of April and i need somewhere to go ie OZ...ez |
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bassexpander
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Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Me too. |
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Trumpcard
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| collegeboy wrote: |
| hey i was looking into flying to australia on the cheap as well, i was thinkin of this ---> take a train down to busan, take the ferry over to fukuoka then train it to osaka where u can get flights on jetstar to sydney or melbourne for around 250 bucks...i mean its a bit of a hassle but if you figure the ferry is like 75 bucks, the trains couldnt be more than 50 and the flight is 250 all in, thats pretty low on the price scale...just a thought, and it might happen considering i just found out im getting fired at the end of April and i need somewhere to go ie OZ...ez |
cool. i have actually looked into this as well as the cheap flights on Tiger air to Melbourne and from Air ASia to the Gold Coast. Where you get stung is the tax and fuel surcharges which aren't mentioned. Also the flights are at really inconvenient times AND youhave to pay extra for luggage. I'm actually going through an agent now and flying into Brisbane via a 2 week stopover in KL then departing from Sydney. Works out to be the same price as buying one way tickets on the cheap everywhere!.
Of course if you're not planning on returning then the el cheapo deals would be ok. |
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moosehead
Joined: 05 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| collegeboy wrote: |
| hey i was looking into flying to australia on the cheap as well, i was thinkin of this ---> take a train down to busan, take the ferry over to fukuoka then train it to osaka where u can get flights on jetstar to sydney or melbourne for around 250 bucks...i mean its a bit of a hassle but if you figure the ferry is like 75 bucks, the trains couldnt be more than 50 and the flight is 250 all in, thats pretty low on the price scale...just a thought, and it might happen considering i just found out im getting fired at the end of April and i need somewhere to go ie OZ...ez |
haven't been to japan, have ya?
the ferry is more like $100 - and since it leaves early in the morning, chances are pretty damn good you'll need to spend the nite in a hotel the night before, where do you live? will you be coming from seoul?
so traveling expenses, food, hotel, plus ferry.
japan is NOT cheap - you'll find that out quick enough - they might even give you grief for trying to come in on a 1 way tkt -
trains can be quite expensive there - I took a bullet to Kyoto, which is next to Osaka, it was pretty expensive, maybe $200? it's quite a long trip.
then I'm a bit skeptical about it really being that cheap to fly out of Osaka, but if you say so - and you've already got a travel agent there? or what, you are just going to book the tkt and show up? what if you can't get the train ticket that you need or it takes longer than you expected? Osaka is not cheap either - and the train from Osaka to the airport - another $15 - plus departure tax.
all in all, I'm not sure you'd really be saving anything by trying this route - but if you do and it works out, please do remember to follow up and let us know how it went, I'm quite curious to hear -
good luck however you decide to do it, ok?
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Trumpcard
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| moosehead wrote: |
| collegeboy wrote: |
| hey i was looking into flying to australia on the cheap as well, i was thinkin of this ---> take a train down to busan, take the ferry over to fukuoka then train it to osaka where u can get flights on jetstar to sydney or melbourne for around 250 bucks...i mean its a bit of a hassle but if you figure the ferry is like 75 bucks, the trains couldnt be more than 50 and the flight is 250 all in, thats pretty low on the price scale...just a thought, and it might happen considering i just found out im getting fired at the end of April and i need somewhere to go ie OZ...ez |
trains can be quite expensive there - I took a bullet to Kyoto, which is next to Osaka, it was pretty expensive, maybe $200? it's quite a long trip.
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more like 15 mins and definitely cheaper than $200. the jr shin kaisoku express trians take 30minutes and cost about $8 |
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