I am not surprised when officer in airport asks me for random(?) bag check. Usually I have big backpack, wearing not the cleanest clothes on after a long trip, so I can go directly to custom officer after collected my checked luggage. But last I was on short trip and had only small bag....
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Don’t run in customs zone in airport
Most annoying thing in New Zealand – departure fee
In last 3 years I been on and off New Zealand for may be 10 times. I always have great time there, but one thing really annoys every time I am coming to airport to catch my out bound flight. For all international departures you need to pay departure tax (currently it is 25$NZ).
It...
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Don’t put all your warm clothes inside checked luggage
Especially if you flying from summer in one hemisphere to winter in another one. When you are boarding plane in the country where outside temperature is +30 °C (86 °F) not many of us are thinking about what is waiting on other side of the world. Also I always expect get my luggage at...
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Extra leg room for short (long) haul flights
Last weekend I was on short trip – just over an hour flight, but it made me to remember the post I wrote awhile ago about extra leg room for long flights. It looks like it worth to check seat map for shorter flights too. In this case I flew with Virgin Blue and...
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Save on your next flight or accommodation booking with Paypal
If you are not using Paypal (Australia) yet, you can easy get benefits of these offers by creating new account with Paypal. It is free and easy to set up and you can save up to 200$ by booking your next flight or accommodation with offers from these companies. Just read fine print as...
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Want To Save On Your Next Payment For Flight Ticket? Use POLi
Was no any announcement about that. I didn’t read and didn’t hear about it although follow travel news regularly and I had noticed it only after I bought next my ticket. I did everything automatically and after pressed button to process with payment I saw something different on the screen. POLi. What is that?...
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Want Extra Leg Room ?
Frequent travellers know about extra leg room in seats near exit. But other seats in economy class also have different seat pitch. Is that additional inch makes such big difference ? Oh yeh! Especially then you are crossing Pacific ocean and spending 12 hours in the air. Every year I fly at least once...
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