[LCA2019 Chat] [Brian May] Bus from airport

[Andrew Donnellan]

On Mon., 14 Jan. 2019, 02:50 Uday <saiudayshankar at gmail.com wrote:

> I am a village idiot and survived Tassie trecks with Google pay. As long
> as EFT POS are available, I think I should do fine.
>

Note for Aussies who haven't been to NZ before: having "EFTPOS", in New
Zealand, can mean strictly the local New Zealand EFTPOS interbank network.
It does not imply acceptance of at least Visa and MasterCard credit cards
in addition to an EFTPOS bank card as "EFTPOS" does in Australia.

The vast majority of places that tourists will care about accept
Visa/MasterCard these days, but you will still *occasionally* run into a
store that has an EFTPOS terminal at the register but doesn't take credit
cards, so be aware of that before you try to buy something and have no way
to pay. Having a little bit of cash doesn't hurt.

(Kiwis feel free to correct me here, but I was in CHC two months ago and
still ran into one shop that didn't take credit card...)


Andrew


> Looking forward for LCA and getting to meet awesome crowd.
>
> Cheers
> Uday
>
> On Sun., 13 Jan. 2019, 4:52 pm Ross Drummond <ross at drummond.co.nz wrote:
>
>> My NZ bank card works in AU so I cant see why the reverse does not apply
>> to the NZ ATM's atirport.
>>
>> Here is a quick equivalence guide for AU --> NZ banks
>>
>> Westpac and ANZ are the same on both sides of the ditch.
>>
>> NAB = Bank of New Zealand(BNZ)
>>
>> Commonwealth Bank = ASB
>>
>> On 13.01.2019 02:24, Brian May wrote:
>>
>> Lets see if this works from my Debian email address...
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thinking of getting a bus from the airport. To me it looks like it is not
>> possible to purchase the Metrocard before arriving at the airport, which
>> means I will need to pay the driver in NZD.
>>
>> Which in turn means I should have NZD cash. However I only have AUD cash.
>> What is the best place to get NZD? Maybe ATM at Christchurch airport?
>>
>> Thanks?
>>
>>
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