Also Sarah I will prob be heading to Basement at some stage when I'm in London. I'll need all the directions and advice I can get - I'll most certainly still get lost in London I'm sure!

Amy from what I've read we have a pre-tour meeting about 6/7pm-ish the night before the tour at the Royal National and then we meet again the morning of the tour. I'm sure they'll give us all the info in our tour packs anyway!

87 days to go, only 12.4 Weeks and i can't wait. Its great to know we're down to double digits as the tour looms near. I'm hoping to see a show, I know it will be expensive but when in France!! Hehehehe

haha
i'm with you on that maria
so excited!!

Hay Everyone,
My partner and I will be joing you all on this trip. Can't wait. It looks amazing and by the sounds of you all the company will be great too. We are from New Zealand and can't wait!!! counting down!!!

Welcome ... the next few months will go quick and i'm very much counting the days to go.

Does anyone have any suggestions for low rate credit cards or debit cards specific for european travel.. The best i've found is with hscb..
- 2-2.5% conversion rate on credit card, no withdrawal fee..
- the debit card has a $4.50 charge per withdrawal but only 1% conversion rate.

hey all!!

I was originally on another tour but it got canceled so i hopped aboard this one! I can't wait im super excited. My roomie and are coming from the states... we get into London the 19th and are staying til June 28th... hope to see you all... i joined the facbeook group so keep in touch!! cant wait to meet you all

kris

Hey everyone!

Good to see some more people on this tour, less than 3 months to go! Counting down the days!

Maria the best credit card I've found is the Wizard Clear Advantage MasterCard. It has no overseas transaction fees at all, interest rate of 15.74% and 55 days interest free. Also if you put cash on it before you go, you can do cash withdrawals (up to the amount you put on it of course) with no withdrawal fees. For more info visit http://www.wizard.com.au/creditcards/task.aspx?id=580

For a debit card the National Bank has a Gold Banking Account with a Visa Debit Card which has no overseas transaction fees either, only a $12 monthly account fee.

Amy

Welcome Kris!

Maria it depends on individual cuircumstances but I'm getting a loan which is at a much smaller interest rate than any credit card and putting that loan onto a "cash passport" (I know NAB and Suncorp do these). Basically you load the cash passport with whatever currency, in our case Euro and this means that theres no exchange rate fluctuations while we're away. It's used like a normal credit card, has no exchange fee at ATMs and you get 2 of them protected by separate PINs so if you lose one its ok!

Also I'm getting a loan because I can't save enough spending money haha so it works for me!

Hey guys! Nice meeting you all!
Well as you can see my name is Lisa and im 23 from Melbourne. Ill be getting in a week before the trip catching with mates in London, before meeting most of you guys on the 21st at the Grand National. As like most of you, im a solo traveller and its my first trip OS, so im a bit nervous but really excited.
Anyway look forward to meeting you all!
Catchya
PS. Im also on facebook, so if ya want to put a face to my name look me up: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=624443545

Hello
I am trying to get used to this website and the forum ... hmmm will get there.

Cant wait for 18June..off to London to catch up with a dear friend and then doing the tour 22nd June.

Would love to meet and greet fellow travellers
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1239181288
Ro

Any of you from Auckland New Zealand doing this tour?
Ro

Hi Ro,
My name is Natasha. My boyfriend and I are from auckland and doing this tour. We cant wait, not long to go now. It is our first big overseas trip so its pretty exciting.

Hey Guys,

I put this on our facebook group as well, but for anyone not on there.. here goes!

It's time to get together, for those that can anyway.. In Sydney.

I suggest we all catch up in the City somewhere, have some food and drinks (might as well warm up for Europe together!!) and get to know each other.

Let me know if you're keen.. I'm thinking around the 26th of April (Saturday) but throw some dates around if that's no good and we'll go from there..

Cheers,


Matt.

Thanks Amy. Advice was great. I thought Wizard was only a home loan place!

62 days to go.. its getting so close to the holiday.. i'm getting excited!!!

Hi Natasha
Cool so there are some other aucklanders doing this tour, good to know.

My face book profile is listed above in one of the replies, feel free to set me up as a friend and we can take it from there.

Cool
Ro