RM95's Girl and I have been invited to go to New Zealand this summer (or winter) where we pretty much have everything paid for except for the flight. That still leaves around $1800 per person, and I know I can't afford it right now, even though I could probably save up enough in seven months. So, tell me why we should do it! I'm not sure where exactly we'll be going, she's calling her friend to find out.
Well, it would be better to come here during the summer (i.e. now), but if you visited the South Island during the winter you would have some of the best skiing and scenery in the world. It doesn't get especially cold in the North Island during that time of year and the scenery, alone, makes it worth visiting at any time of year. Growing up in Houston, I wasn't much of a beach person, but the beaches here are unbelievable. Really dramatic cliffs, caves and rocks intercut with streams and estuaries framing the bluest water on the smoothest sand. Put it this way, the Beach Boys make some sort of new cosmic sense to me now after living here. You are pretty much no more than 20 minutes from a stunning beach anywhere in New Zealand. The mountains and plant life are also really worth seeing here, too. There are giant ferns everywhere that are almost prehistoric looking and flowers bloom year round. If this is any consolation, you should be able to find a better deal than $1800 roundtrip. Last summer I found a roundtrip ticket from Houston to Auckland for about $1000. Anyway, my wife knows a lot more about NZ, so she will probably be more convincing. Hope this helps.
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Thanks Elvis. Yeah, we figured we could get a better deal than that. We went to the Caymans for a friend's wedding last summer, and the first time we looked for a ticket, they were $1100 and we ended up getting them for $400.
Oh dude, you guys *must* come!! Seriously!! By the way, the cheapest fares to NZ that I've found are at http://www.travelteam.com. My one-way ticket was only $650US, and Elvis' roundtrip ticket, as he said, was $1050 or thereabouts. (Oh, and Smeg is full of ****. He's just jealous because he lives in a country filled with snakes, poisonous spiders, endless miles of boring desert, and other Australians. ) God, I am in a total hurry here because I'm on my lunchbreak. Um, practical considerations: we speak English; the exchange rate is *really* favourable to you guys as our dollar is only worth 50 American cents; everyone I know who's visited says it is, objectively, the most beautiful place in the world; and despite my reputation as a biatch, we are also, as a people, renowned for being helpful and friendly! I must go and be a librarian now, but ask me stuff. I will do my best to help. I will even buy you a beer when you get here. Real beer, not that stuff you guys drink.
Smeg, we know. It's the same thing that Aggies do right? dimsie and Elvis, I really hope we'll be close, I'd love to meet y'all.
I'd scrounge every penny, I'd stop drinking beer and wine and tequila....and well, I'd just stop drinking, I'd eat beans and rice every day, I'd drop my cable, I'd stop running the AC or heat, I'd give up my gas guzzler for a Ford FukAss, I'd stop buying DVD's, I wouldn't go out, and I'd go back to dial-up (Well, maybe that's stretching it a bit) to be able to take the opportunity that's been laid before you.
Oh, RM95, sorry. Take off the period at the end. Me and my damn punctuation. I shall respond to the rest of the slander later.
