Visitors to New Zealand need only remember one name when seeking travel advice: i-SITE.
i-SITE is New Zealand’s official network of tourist information centers.
Tag: travel information
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i-SITE Tourist Centers Give Visitors Free New Zealand Travel Advice
More than 80 i-SITEs scattered around the North and South Islands are dedicated to providing advice about local attractions, accommodation options, and transport. Best of all, the service is completely free to use. Unlike many tourist centers in other countries, the staff at i-SITE centers go the extra mile, booking tours, trips, and travel for their guests and sharing a few local secrets. In fact, the centers must achieve a certain level of staff training, services, and other standards before being selected as a prestigious i-SITE. i-SITES have everything you need to plan your trip, including brochures and maps to browse in store, and maps and guide books to take on your journey. You can also purchase gifts and souvenirs, and stamps and postcards for your friends back home. Most i-SITES also have internet facilities, and many have cafes so you can relax with a coffee while e-mailing loved ones about your adventures. You can make i-SITE your first New Zealand stop, with centers located at both Auckland and Christchurch airports. While there, visitors can pick up a map showing all New Zealand's i-SITE locations. Or if you're super organized, you can print the map from the i-SITE website before you leave. -
When to be Wary of Travel Deals
It pays to be a smart consumer. Or does it? Perhaps we mean you will pay less if you’re a smart consumer.
At least that’s the case when it comes to travel deals online. Travel sites love to project amazing travel deals that will get you around the world and to incredible locations for just pennies. Like this one deal, advertised by Green Earth Travel that suggested one person could travel to Ireland for only $399. However, when travel experts tried to book that flight the trip rang in at amounts closer to $2,300! The deal presented online was for a flight to Ireland in December or January (keep in mind you’d be enjoying temperatures on an average of 50F as the high and would be traveling during Ireland’s wettest season). You would also have to travel from Boston and share a hotel room with four other people in order to find trip fares that low! Which brings us to our point: be wary of travel deals. Not every advertised ‘deal’ will get you the trip you’re looking for.
On FrugalMonkey you will only find airfares and vacations that accurately represent a real trip. It’s our travel guarantee so that you can rest assured that you will never have to be wary when read about travel deals on FrugalMonkey.
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FrugalMonkey’s European Vacations
Although we talk a lot about domestic travel, don’t forget that FrugalMonkey has amazing travel information on international locations as well. That includes, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, South Africa and Greece! Each of these profiles includes some special information about the area, hotels, sites and exciting adventures.
If you’ve always wanted to take a Mediterranean vacation while the rest of us battle through a cold winter, then take a look at our section on travel to Greece. Start looking for travel deals now and exploring resorts in Crete for the island vacation of a lifetime! With FrugalMonkey vacation planners, there is no detail left to the wayside. Be sure to check back with our blog for amazing domestic and international travel deals!
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Where to Go? Find Out with Our Country Profiles
If you’re trying to pick where to go and when for your summer vacation, be sure and check out FrugalMonkey’s country profiles first. We have all the best information regarding hotels in the area, sites to see, activities to enjoy and other interesting information like what time of year to travel, travel deals to that country, country history and travel preparation. You’ll find all you need to know on Alaska, Australia, Argentina, Hawaii, Mexico, South Africa and Greece – and it’s all just a few clicks away.
Start planning your summer vacation now with FrugalMonkey!
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Travel With Twitter
The web is responsible for a long list of new words making its way into our everyday vernacular. For example, ‘Googling’ something is universally understood even if only recently. Now, we can add another; although this term has the travel world in a buzz. Twittering refers to the website Twitter.com, where people can upload one or two lines informing others of their whereabouts, mood or maybe just to state an observation. The ability to upload from your cell phone is making Twitter the very next must-have travel tool.
With the help of easy one-second uploads travelers can let friends and family know that they are ‘delayed at the airport’ or any number of helpful updates. Finding out ‘where to eat’ by simply Twittering, immediately has all your friends and family helping you out within seconds. ‘Looking for last minute fight deals‘ through Twitter might land you the help of all 200 of your Twitter friends. It’s a simple idea that is making big splashes among travelers.