Booking flights this weekend!

[likesshopping]

Hi all. I have been looking around at flight on t'internet for ages and I went into some agencies today. We have decide to book our flights this weekend - I know it may seem mad to some, as we havent got our visas yet and we did have some problems with the medicals.......but hey, Ive come this far, sold house, sold car, sold funiture - I may as well go the whole hog !!

I did think that because we want to go in July, that it would somehow be cheaper as its their winter - but apparently not. I think we've got a good deal - paying £2150 for all four of us, that includes a 3night stopover in singapore with hotel accomodation and free admission to a few attractions. All we need to get is some insurance.

Price was a few hundred pound more during July, so at this price we are flying out on 15th July and land in Adelaide on 19th.

So, is this a good deal?

sarahx

[likesshopping]

Sorry, got date wrong - its 15th AUGUST, not july that we are now going...........

derrrrrrrrrrrr


xx

[dglamoore]

Hi Sarah

Well done on sorting your dates!! Not mad as we done this too :lol: We knew before xmas we would be going on 22nd April and booked all hotels etc (also stopping in Singapore for 4 nights) so we had dates to work towards........10 weeks to go and no visa yet :lol:

Price seems good to me for flying in August as in the middle of our summer holidays so will be more. We are paying £1200 for 2 adults and 1 child end of April and £800 for 4 nights in the hotel so for the time of year you got a good price.

Lisa :D

[likesshopping]

Hi Lisa

Now that we know what date we will be there - does this mean we can apply for OAA?

Whilst im on the subject of OAA - are you given a choice of which ones you can stay in? If so, any idea which are the nice ones....

thanks

sarahx

[dglamoore]

Hi Sarah

We applied for OAA as soon as we had our arrival date and there was an option to say which area you preferred on the form.

We figured if applied early we would have more chance of getting it :D

Lisa

[donna T]

What fantastic news - I think that booking the flights was somehow the most 'making it real' thing we did. Somehow once you have a date booked, you really have something to work around - it's great telling people exactly when you are going to be going rather than unspecified date inthe Summer.

We requested OAA as soon as we booked the flights and exactly 4 weeks before departure they came through to confirm it - we too requested an area that we liked thelook of - no idea where we actually have been allocated until nearer the time.

[likesshopping]

Hi Donna.....really gutted for you that your house fell through....what a nightmare. You've put on your signature that you cancelled your flights..did you lose all the money or are you able to transfer to another date?

Also, how did you both look at the OAA - im finding it so difficult at getting my head around all the suburds.

Do you know where I can get a map of all the suburds?

Thanks

sarahxx

[dglamoore]

Hi Sarah

You can fill in your details here and get a free pack including a suburb map - http://www.southaustralia.biz/move/register.htm

or there are a few links on Adelaide Bound to online maps - http://www.adelaidebound.com/maps.htm

We just put a general area in the south as we know this is roughly where we would like to be
:D
Lisa x

[donna T]

Hi Sarah

I never actually got around to cancelling the flights and we have had another offer on the house so think we will go anyway and leave the house inthe solicitors hands - scary!
We put for the OAA - Fulham GArdens because it looks lovely although probably too expensive for us - actually if it is that expensive there is no way there will be OAA there so we could end up anywhere :D

[likesshopping]

Hi Lisa and Donna
Thanks for info on OAA - Going to look into this week.

Hubby had the day off work yesterday 'cos of the snow - We had such a fab day with the kids in the snow!

It was also our wedding anniversary - 5 years (been together for 11) and went to sydney for our honeymoon - this time 5years ago.

We rounded off the day by walking to the travel agents and booked our flights, we are now staying at singapore for 4 nights, staying at the Furama City Centre. Flying from heathrow on 15th august and arriving in Adelaide on 21st..............we then walked to the THai restuarant, but it was shut so had to make do with a meal at the local chinese!!

Been speaking to our agents about our medicals who say that we dont have anything to worry about.

Really excited about staying in Singapore, our ticket inlcudes free admissions to a few attractions too.

Just got 7 months to get thin!!!!

Lisa - I only log on to see if you have your visa yet !!

Hope you're all well

sarahxxx