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The PNR does not carry thru to a the second airline on a 2 flight trip so they always issue their own which we then have to identify.Be great if DAF provided them both at the outset.
Pity the booking was through Air New Zealand who are virtually unobtainable to talk to. Worse than BA. I left a hand bag on the inward flight with hearing aids inside and ANZ found the bag which we collected from Auckland Airport only to find they had lost an earpiece! How?
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All went well although the plane we flew on with Malaysia Airlines from Auckland to KL was very "tired." Having said that the crew were unfailingly polite and attentive. Thank you for arranging our flights and hotel in KL. The Sama Sama Hotel was beautiful and excellent value. The room was big. It was quiet and the food in the restaurant was very cheap and of excellent quality.
Great service all round - thank you Lucy and the team
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Flights all worked out perfectly and customer service by Liam 100%. Only minor annoyance was that my husband had to eat vegetarian meals on every flight (Qatar x 4 and Jetstar) even though I'd thought I'd ordered them just for myself.
Overall my trip was fine. However, I was quite disappointed with the hire car. My agent booked me with Go Rentals. The car was awful, 85,000 miles on the clock, no apple CarPlay and wipers that did not work properly. The car location was offsite from the airport requiring a shuttle for both collection and drop off. Very inconvenient after a 28 hour flight.
All was perfect and Travis was great - did everything we asked for
Very helpful, thank you
You go above and beyond, I’m very happy with the service you provide
Toby did a very good job and he was always on the end of the phone when I needed to ask a question.
Aidan responded promptly and dealt with updates
The only problems we encountered were with the car hire companies. We had to pay extra for GPS which should be included in the final cost of hiring. It seems obvious to us that people renting cars are tourists and therefore rely on sat nav/GPS systems to find their way around a foreign country.
Thanks Michelle, everything worked perfectly.
I will be in touch regarding my next trip in due course.
The breathtaking Mount Ngauruhoe looms over a wilderness of desolation.
Offset against the cerulean sky, this active stratovolcano has a dark, conical shape and clouds bubbling around its blood-red crater like dry ice in a lab experiment. It's the sort of volcano my son Edward would draw.
Also known as a composite volcano, a stratovolcano is one built up by many layers of hardened lava, pumice stone and volcanic ash - and known for periodic explosive eruptions, with the lava flowing from it cooling and hardening before spreading far due to its high viscosity.
Edward clambers on to the bus that will escort us to the start of our trek with a spring in his step. 'That's Mount Doom,' he says to the bus driver, just in case he didn't already know.
Edward has only just turned seven, but he has already watched Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and its prequel, The Hobbit. His bedtime reading is Tolkien's The Hobbit - illustrated but unabridged.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at his literary preferences, given that his father is both a movie buff and a voracious reader.
We are about to attempt the Tongariro Alpine Crossing in New Zealand's North Island. Apparently the best one-day hike in the country, it's a 12-mile adventure across the Tongariro National Park.
This is the setting for Mordor in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and Mount Ngauruhoe stars as Mount Doom, where Frodo, the hobbit entrusted as the ring-bearer, is tasked with destroying the ring.
The driver pulls Edward back by the hood of his waterproof. 'Hobbits aren't allowed on board,' he says, gruffly.
Edward gasps. 'I'm not a hobbit. I'm a child.' 'You know this isn't a child-friendly hike?' says the driver, concerned. This time, he's addressing us, not Edward. 'If it were easy-peasy-lemonsqueezy, it wouldn't be called Mordor,' pipes up Edward, before we can articulate an adequate reply.
I prefer glamorous heels to hiking boots any day of the week, so I harbour a secret wish that poor weather might mean the trek being called off. But I'm a little miffed to find that even a cyclone won't put daddy and Edward off visiting Mordor.
However, a delay while waiting for the weather to improve buys us time to explore the fascinating caves at Waitomo, where the luminous bottoms of glow worms create stellar constellations in the darkness. Also demanding our attention were the bubbling muds and jewel-coloured geothermal pools at Waiotapu as well as the bird sanctuaries inhabited by threatened species of fluffy, nocturnal kiwi birds in Otorohanga Kiwi House.
We cruised the Lake Taupo caldera (a caldera is a deep collapsed volcanic crater, which in this case has formed a lake) aboard a Romancing The Stone sailboat.
But a highlight for Edward, after a stay in a homely, picturesque farm, was a visit to Hobbiton, the film set of The Hobbit. He was totally at home among its undulating hills, enchanting vegetable patches, flowering gardens and quaint houses with hobbit-sized doors.
North Island is often skipped in favour of South Island, but it it needn't be. The Tongariro crossing averages eight hours and comprises steep, rope-assisted climbs to the 6,200ft summit.
It's not a trek for the faint-hearted, but the gritty volcanic landscapes, scorched crater ridges, gem-coloured sulphurous lakes and tussock grasslands merging into forests of mountain beech and kaikawaka are spectacular.
Never mind that I'll be stiff tomorrow. Even after the trek, Edward was still tingling with excitement and daddy was completely in his element.
'Even the hobbit made it?' says the driver, congratulating us at the end of our adventure.
Perhaps hobbits and children are not so dissimilar, after all.
First published in the Mail on Sunday - March 2018
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