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jack_&_charli 
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Posted: 23 April 2007 at 8:50pm |
yay! we've booked a few days holiday on the gold coast thanks to our airnz airpoints 
i'm trying to find cheap accommodation and also somewhere that hires cars on the cheap......can anyone recommend anywhere?
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my2angels
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Posted: 23 April 2007 at 8:54pm |
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Not off the top of my head but if you cant find anywhere or no one has any suggestions let me know and I will find out for you cos hubbies parents run apartments over there (prob not the cheapest though) but they can give me info on car hire and cheaper places to stay and any other info you want.
How exciting, when are you going?
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Posted: 23 April 2007 at 9:21pm |
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Hi there,
We just had a holiday in the Gold Coast last month and we found accommodation through www.lastminute.com.au - there are always really good specials advertised.
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Posted: 23 April 2007 at 9:25pm |
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If you go to www.drivenow.com.au it compares all the prices of the car rental places and tells you who is the cheapest.
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Posted: 23 April 2007 at 9:50pm |
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We stayed at the Beach Palms apartments in Palm Beach, cost me around $300 for Maya and I for 7 nights, it was ridiculously cheap.
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Posted: 24 April 2007 at 7:27am |
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ohhh thanks for that guys we are going on airpoints too!! from 18nov to the 27th nov. YAY YAY YAY.
car rentals www.eastcoastcarrentals.com.au
Also a places on www.family.stays.com.au and www.stayz.com.au
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jack_&_charli
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Posted: 24 April 2007 at 1:08pm |
thanks for the suggestions ladies!
airpoints are great aren't they! it's taken us about 5yrs to get enough though but oh well 
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Posted: 24 April 2007 at 1:33pm |
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www.wotif.com is good for finding cheap accomodation too
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Posted: 24 April 2007 at 1:34pm |
OH YAY!! we are going to the gold coast at the end of september for a holiday so this info is great for me too
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Posted: 24 April 2007 at 1:44pm |
We stayed at Sante Anne by the Sea at Broadbeach. Would highly recommend it and am going back there again for 8 nights in July! Reasonably priced, central and easy walking distance to Pacific Fair. They are quite spacious units with big kitchens. website
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Posted: 25 April 2007 at 1:09pm |
runaway cove
We have just booked here for our holiday its costing us about $1300nz for 9 nights in the 3 bedroom apartment for 6 of us so i thought that was really resonable. MY friend, who lives on the coast said its a really nice area and handy to public transport. They also do bookings through TradeMe so its really good to have a NZ person that you can discuss things with.
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Posted: 25 April 2007 at 4:09pm |
I think everyone is going to Surfers!! We are going over there on the 11th May for 2 weeks (delayed Honeymoon). we are flying Emirates (they were only $6 more then freedom air cause they had a sale!!), staying at aristocrat apartments. For flights and accom was $2200 for both of us which I thought was good and we hae pre paid theme parks, bus travel pass (set rate for 24/7 for the 2 weeks!)
We got told to stay away from rental cars, just for the fact that we were comparing it to the bus and it worked out cheaper on the bus, downside to the bus is we cant just jump in and drive somewhere but hey if we get lost on the bus we know we will eventually get back to where we started!!!
Have a good break  just do your research and you will be sweet!! If you go into a travel agent and just enquire they might be able to help you to but then they only deal with one or two companies...(tried google??)
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Posted: 25 April 2007 at 5:39pm |
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okay hopefully someone here will have somewhere i can go.... I can get cheap rental car hire but my hubby and mum reckon we should catch busses and air train. soooo have just done prices on the air train website and its going to be $740 australian for the 6 of us. So wondering if there is any cheap booking offices or anything? Also to but tickets for the theme parks?
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Posted: 25 April 2007 at 8:24pm |
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lol if my family make it over to brissy / GC we have places to stay(my best mate lives on the GC and Naths sis lives in brissy) so that cuts down our accom expenses drastically(would still pay something for the use of their power etc etc)
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Posted: 26 April 2007 at 9:49am |
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Maria you can go online and book the theme parks or if you are staying a a hotel etc.. they can get them for you.
Not sure about the airtrain thing though. We have always hired a car for the ease of getting around, specially with kids and the cost is about the same. Last time we had a big group and rented an 8 seater, it was great, managed to fit in so much shopping!!! oh and the kids hehe
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Posted: 26 April 2007 at 10:44am |
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Also check the entertainment book, if you ahev one as it has discounts on theme park tickets, car rental and hotels in aussie.
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Posted: 26 April 2007 at 12:00pm |
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OOOH we are off to Brisbane at the end of August. We have a place to stay but will need to hire a car, so will have a wee look at the web sites you have suggested thanks heaps!
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Posted: 26 April 2007 at 12:29pm |
yeah i want to buy the entertainment book but i guess i will have to wait until we are over there to get that as i cant find anyone in NZ that sells them.
Robyn it works out about half the price for car rental vs public transport but hubby and mum think that public transport will be more fun 
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