[LCA2019 Chat] [Brian May] Bus from airport

[Alec Clews]

I think you mean "milk bar"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_bar



On 14/1/19 09:55, Eion Robb wrote:
> Whoops, my en-AU isn't so great.
> In future, I'll make sure to spell it as "fush 'n' chups" to make sure 
> we don't send our West Island friends to the Fission Sheeps shop instead.
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 11:48, Lisa Sands <deputy at lca2019.org 
> <mailto:deputy at lca2019.org>> wrote:
>
>     Also if you are coming internationally to the airport from
>     Australia most flight don't get in until around midnight and the
>     last bus from the airport that goes past the University leaves
>     Monday to Friday at 11:07 pm Saturday at 11:37 pm and Sunday at
>     10:37 pm.
>
>     So you will need to look at other ways to get to the university if
>     you are arriving after these times.
>
>     And yes, when we say dairy we mean corner store!
>
>     On 2019-01-14 11:29, Steven Ellis wrote:
>
>>     In addition a lot of places who do take PayWave don't take
>>     Apple/Google payment.
>>
>>     On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 11:19, Eion Robb <eion at robbmob.com
>>     <mailto:eion at robbmob.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         As a Kiwi, can confirm.  Credit cards can be optional
>>         depending on where you go, but it's normally a smaller store
>>         (like a corner store/dairy) that won't support credit cards. 
>>         90% of places that support credit card will only support Visa
>>         and Mastercard.
>>         In addition to that, a shop can accept credit cards, but not
>>         have paywave, so wont work with NFC payment solutions such as
>>         Google/Apple Pay - only magstrip/chip cards
>>
>>         On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 11:11, Andrew Donnellan
>>         <andrew at donnellan.id.au <mailto:andrew at donnellan.id.au>> wrote:
>>
>>             On Mon., 14 Jan. 2019, 02:50 Uday
>>             <saiudayshankar at gmail.com
>>             <mailto: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...)
>>

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