[LCA2019 Chat] [Brian May] Bus from airport

[Lisa Sands]

So it is!

On 14 January 2019 12:01:28 PM NZDT, Alec Clews <alecclews at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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>Alec Clews
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