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Old 20-06-2007, 10:39 AM
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I've not used them.
I can't see any indication of prices, but tbh there is nothing in their package that you can't easily organise yourself via the net

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Property tour with estate agent
Pop into any estate agent, tell them you have just moved over (OK white lie) and you are interested in properties in the X price bracket - they will fall over themselves and will discuss you needs, eg schooling etc in great detail and for free

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Detailed holiday itinerary
Advice and arrangements of holiday activities
Buy the rough guide to New Zealand of pick any of the tours that are advertised by various companies on the net and use their itineraries, which they also publicise for free

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Arranging meeting with HR managers, industry specialists and recruitment consultants
Find out where the agencies are in the towns you want to visit (use yellow pages online) prepare your CV, email them and say you are coming over and wish to meet. If necessary pretend you have residency if you haven't already got it as very few employers are interested if you haven't. I would be very surprsed if it was much more than them arranging a meeting with Manpower or the like.

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Meeting with visa consultant
Who will then charge you stupid amounts of money to handle your application when all the information is available from the official NZ imigration website and from forums like this one
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Meetings with estate agents and recruitment consultants
Recruitment consultants already mentioned above, as is estate agents
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Airport meet and greet
A nice to have, but if you are hiring a camper van for your holiday like most people do you would be greeted and collected by the campervan company anyway
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Accommodation arrangements (tailored to your budget)
How much help do you need in booking a camper van? Or a hotel?
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Travel and transport arrangements
Not exactly difficult to hire a car or campervan over the web these days
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Fact-sheets for all the areas you are visiting
Pop into an tourist information place and they are available free of charge, you can also talk to an expert there. Or as mentioned before buy the rough guide to NZ
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New Zealand orientation talk with Q&A session
Might be worth something, depends what level they will go into, but again you can get answers to all your questions from forums like these, from people who have already emigrated and know what the day to day living is like.

Sorry to be a bit down on the company, but I would save your pennies and just do it yourself, they are not offering anything that is difficult to organise, or of great value in having, unless you are the sort of person who has only ever gone on a package holiday and are terrified of going on holiday without a butlins red coat to tell you when to go to the loo.

One of the joys of visiting NZ is that there is the freedom to do what you want to do. Some of the best things we saw were things that we stumbled accross and because we weren't tied into a strict schedule we could take the time to stop.

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