[LCA2019 Chat] [Brian May] Bus from airport

Mon Jan 14 10:50:54 AEDT 2019

Either a taxi (probably NZD 60-70) or an Uber/Ola<https://www.olacabs.com/nz>/Zoomy<http://zoomy.co.nz/> ($30-40) . Zoomy are an NZ based company who claim to pay their drivers better than others (I don’t know how true that is).

From: Chat [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lca2019.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Michael Davies
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Subject: Re: [LCA2019 Chat] [Brian May] Bus from airport

So for someone arriving “at about midnight” on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, what are the options to get to the University residential colleges?

Thanks in advance,

Michael...

On 14 Jan 2019, at 9:18 am, 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...)

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<mailto: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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