Gap Year Working Holiday Set Up Australia Essential Info
So you are hitting OZ with your Australian working holiday visa? Let us help you make your first week of your gap year easy! We will sort your accommodation, transfers, tax and bank details for you and even help you get a job down under. Easy. Leaving you more time to do some really cool stuff and get on with the important business of drinking and meeting people (ok, and getting a job). Swap the cue at the bank and tax office for a surfboard and social life.
We have designed a couple of arrival packages in the 5 main cities. The aim is to help you out when you first hit Australia, designed to help you find your feet at quickly as possible, meet other is a simelar situation and get into work.
What most people do not realise is that from the moment you step off the plane the clock starts ticking for you to get yourself sorted as fast as possible. Living costs in the bigger cities of Australia are not too dissimilar to those back home, so you need to spend your first couple of days wisely, before your travel budget is eaten up sorting yourself out with accommodation, flat shares, locating house mates, banking, tax numbers and looking for work, whist at the same time trying to meet people and set up your social life down under.
With this programme you can benefit from:
Pre departure:
- Group flight options
- Group start dates (first Monday of the month)
- Contact details of others booked for the same date (only with their consent)
- Working holiday Visa Processed (govt fee excluded)
- Bank account set up
- Pre-departure pack sent with guide to Sydney and crammed with useful information
- Mail forwarding details supplied
On Arrival
- Airport transfer instructions (with transfer included in the price)
- Sydney Harbour Cruise
- Job Service: Resume and Job Assistance
- Jobs interviews set up on arrival
- Access to job posting service (exclusively for paid up members)
- Medicare assistance (not available to residents from ROI, Canada,USA, Germany and France and NL)
- Tax file number set up (Without it you will be on emergency tax at 48%)
- The Extras Vodafone SIM card Australia's best value international calling card
- Luggage storage while in Sydney
Get to know people. Fast.
To help you to make new friends we will take you out for a night to remember on Sydney's only pimped out party bus! Complete with a Phat sound system (the sub woofer is illegal in 9 countries!) prepare to be taken to Sydney's best clubs and pubs, with free drinks and VIP entry. Just don´t blame us if yo have a job interview the next day, or do, in fact definitely do.
You also get the following:
- 20% off Sydney's coolest attractions: Sydney Aquarium, Sydney Sky Tower, Ocean world and Taronga Zoo *
- Loads of free & cheap entries into local bars *
- FREE VIP entry into Sydney's funkiest clubs *
- Mail forwarding.
- Adrenaline pumping jet boat ride around Sydney harbour in winter *
- Free Beach BBQ Free Hostel Beach Walking Tour*
- 2-for-1beers in backpackers Side Bar *
- MAD CARD and travel Guide worth euro 28! (giving you access to over $2000 worth of exclusive discounts)
- Access to dirt cheap internet for you entire time in OZ - not just the first week and not just in Sydney.
- Access at Global Gossip Internet Cafes at hundreds of locations around Australia)
Accommodation 6 nights accommodation in a shared room in a great hostel in Down Town Sydney. A great place to meet other travellers or Sydney start ups.
For those choosing Melbourne, Brisbane Cairns or Perth, we use a top hostel chain with excellent down town locations.
Upgrades: You also have to option to bolt on 5 or 10 nights extra accommodation. Open dated to be used in most of the major cities in Australia, handy if you want to try and locate work in other cities. - contsct us for prices.
Getting There If you would like assistance with your flights, we can assist with sourcing the best value flight options, just indicate on your booking form. The group flight option is available to those participating in group start dates and is run in conjunction with our partners at the flight centre. Please contact us for details.
When To Go
This programme runs all year with group options on the first Monday of the month. You can also do this programme according to your own arrival date, with all the benefits, but no group flight options.
Price and Dates
Price €539 or 499 GBP
Group start dates are on the first Monday of the Month:
- 2010: Apr 5th, May 3rd, June 7th, July 5th, August 2nd, Sept 6th, Oct 4th, Nov 1st, December 6th,
- 2011: Jan 3rd, Feb 7th, March 7th, Apr 4th, May 2nd
Included
The Great stuff 6 nights accommodation with breakfast included:
- Sydney Harbour Cruise
- Job Service: Resume and Job Assistance
- Jobs interviews set up on arrival
- Access to free job posting service
- Medicare assistance (not available to residents from ROI, Canada,USA, Germany and France and NL)
- Tax file number set up (Without it you will be on emergency tax at 48%)
- Online Aussie bank account (you need an account to be paid when working)
- Work Holiday Visa processed (excludes government fee)
- The Extras Vodafone SIM card Australia's best value international calling card
- Luggage storage while in Sydney
- 20% off Sydney´s coolest attractions: Sydney Aquarium, Sydney Sky Tower, Ocean world and Taronga Zoo
- Loads of free & cheap entries into local bars
- FREE VIP entry into Sydney's funkiest clubs
- Mail forwarding.
- Option for longer Surf lesson day trip (summer)
- Adrenaline pumping jet boat ride around Sydney harbour in winter
- Free Beach BBQ Free Hostel Beach Walking Tour
- 2-for-1beers in backpackers Side Bar
- MAD CARD and travel Guide worth euro 28! (giving you access to over $2000 worth of exclusive discounts)
- Access to dirt cheap internet for you entire time in OZ - not just the first week and not just in Sydney.
- Access at Global Gossip Internet Cafes at hundreds of locations around Australia)
Excluded
- All flights
- Australia Visa Fee
- Travel insurance
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