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Travel advice
Check out these sites for advice when you go travelling. Alot of comments have been submitted by travellers but be aware the tour operators can be posting items as well!
Virtual Tourist
Thorn Tree By the Lonely Planet team. Great especially for backpackers, where you can share your ideas
Remember the people who reply could be acting on their own best interest (ie if they suggest you should stay at a particular hotel etc) but generally you can tell if obviously plugging their own company.
Internet Access Abroad
Local libraries are often a great way to get cheap or free internet access whilst abroad.
Also if you have a laptop check out wifi points as some can be free like McDonalds in Australia offers free wifi at most of its locations in OZ.
Calling Home from Abroad
Use Skype. If you get internet access & the person at home has skype you can call each other for free anywhere in the world.
Phonecards.
Do not use hotel phones as these often work out extremely expensive.
Text messaging with your mobile. It doesn't cost anything to receive a text abroad but can be quite expensive to send texts depending on where you are (approx 60c-$1.20).
You will need to setup global roaming before you leave.
Prepay:
You can often automatically use your Prepay mobile on a number of networks around the world.
See the your mobile operators website for the latest information about whether roaming is possible with your phone & mobile operator..
Travel safely abroad
For guidance whilst travelling abroad go to the NZ Government website re safer travel & visa/passport information:
Safetravel NZ
Offers an ability to register your details which can be useful to help find you in emergency or get information to you.
Healthy travelling
Check out this website for information about what vaccines etc you may need.
Travel Doctor NZWhen travelling abroad NZ has reciprocal health agreements with:
UK & Australia
But you should always have travel insurance when travelling abroad as they only treat you under certain situations.
Your Holiday Weather Forecast
MetService NZ Weather in New Zealand
Yahoo Weather International Weather forecasts
Find the Best Seats on the Plane. Seat GuruShows the best places to be sit on the plane.
In Flight Entertainment
If you're flying soon you can often check out what the in flight movies will be before boarding the flight but sometimes its fun to look forward to this. Means you don't go to cinema just before the flight and realise you have seen everything they're offering!
Frequent Flyer Mile Programmes
When flying to or from New Zealand you can gain large numbers of frequent flyer miles esp if flying to Europe!
Frequent flyer miles gives you points/miles each time you fly. These miles entitles you to is free flights, hotel stays, car rentals & more once you have built up sufficient miles.
For example a return trip from London to Auckland can accrue enough miles on may schemes to get you a free flight within Europe from London or you can save up the miles for a trip to USA, if you plan on doing more flying.
Once you have frequent flyer membership, it is worth trying to fly with the same airline or alliance so that you can build up your miles quicker..
There are 3 main Airline Alliances:
Always keep your boarding passes to claim back unclaimed miles in case they don't add them on to your account once you get back.