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[geekchick]

Today is Pungenday, day 72 in the season of Confusion, 3269.

Looks like yet another alternate vacation plan is in the works. Seven days/six nights in London for $654 per person, including the $109 in taxes/fees, air on Virgin Atlantic and hotel, which is half the price of the New Zealand trip. If I plan this right and get C. to go along with the timing, perhaps I'll get to make the Oysterband 25th anniversary show after all; I should preorder a couple of tickets just in case. Maybe see you and K. there, Steve? ;) (

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[rednikki.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out www.airnewzealand.com? They have some inexpensive travel packages. The important thing to remember is that, in England, you will pay about double for food, taxi, etc what you would in the US (it's not just the exchange rate - things are also baseline pricey there), whereas in NZ you'll pay half what you would in the US (and a third what you pay in SF). So keep that in mind while you're budgeting.

BTW, we're going to NZ for our honeymoon. :-)

[geekchick]

The NZ package I found was from Air New Zealand via Frommer's, and it was a pretty sweet deal: air from LA, hotel and a rental car for a week for in the neighborhood of $1600 each (airfare alone was rougly $950 when I looked). I think it would be a faboo vacation, but my sweetie is more interested in London than tramping around in the beautiful outdoors, even though London is a lot more expensive. I must admit that the NZ$1.70-ish to US$1 thing when I last looked was pretty darn appealing. =)

BTW, we're going to NZ for our honeymoon. :-)

From what I've seen in the guidebooks I've been looking through, it's absolutely gorgeous there.