Trip overview
Today we fly to Wellington to look at and hopefully buy a car, then embark on a road trip to New Plymouth for a nightstop enroute to Auckland. If we don’t buy the car, we have backup standby flights from Wellington to New Plymouth and then to Auckland next day.
As the flight from Wellington to New Plymouth is nearly full, we would be up the creek without a paddle if the car purchase didn’t happen.
Flying away
We woke at 0500 and left home at 0530 to park at the Heartland Hotel before taking their 0600 shuttle to Auckland domestic airport.
We were holding standby tickets for the 0800 flight to Wellington but we were lucky there were plenty of seats. We could relax in the lounge over breakfast, knowing that all was according to plan.