[Helen & John]

Hi guys just a quick up date to say we have a buyer for house at last, dropped £4000 but still think it is worthwhile. Estate agent says it will take 6-8 weeks as they have a buyer who is first time for their house. I am starting to panick a little now, not sleeping very well, so much to do, yet still not able to do anything concrete until we exchange, dont want to get stung!

Flights are looking like they will be £2100 for 5 of us. Shipping qoutes around £3,500 and i am struggling to find a motel with room big enough for us and the few i have found have been expensive.

So that leads me to my question, does anybody know of a motel in Palmerston North that can take 2 adults and 3 children and that is not massively expensive, trying to keep costs down having lost the money on the house. Hoepfully we will be in nz by mid March.

Thanks to all who have given encouragement when things have looked grim for us, and to those still battling, dont give up.

Helen and John

[dawn]

Congratulations on the house sale!!!

Not sure what you'd consider expensive, this motel is around $100 for a 1 bed room that sleep 1-6 http://www.pnm.co.nz/html/palmerston_north_motel_rooms.html

Have you tried http://www.wotif.com/Search.jsp?region=2172&stlcmpid=960&utm_id=114, this is another good one http://www.jasons.com/001342,nzl,ni,lowerni,palno,ACCOM,1,0.mel?source=a dwordsnz or http://www.onetime.com/hotels/1882300/New_Zealand/Palmerston_North-1.html?session=087c4f5b5b9680fcecbedd6f9bf47df6

[mossum]

*~*~*~* CONGRATULATIONS *~*~*~*~

I rekon selling the house is the BIGGEST nost nightmare part ..... you'd think it would be easier with no upper chain !!!

How exciting - bet you're uncontrolable today ;)

wow its really going to happen now

good luck

[Smiler]

Another step nearer, well done. :clap:clap Hope everything goes well from now on.

Deborah

[Maydon]

Congrats on the house sale, and send some of that luck down south please :) :clap

[katandbob]

congrats, :raebanana we dropped our house by that much, and we have saved it up since Oct. I checked out your diary page, looks like your application is going quick, there cant be as much of a waiting list for the Family sponser route.

I am going to check our progress at the end of next week as we sent our ITA in October, it seems such a long time ago.

oh well back to the nappies....grandmotherhood! Bliss :laugh

[K&CS]

Congratulations. I know what you mean about panicking. We've actually booked everything although we haven't exchanged yet - we just thought that was leaving it too late. Our flights can be moved if we're delayed, although to be honest, even if it all falls through, I think we'll go anyway - we're past the point of no return.

There are 5 of us too so I understand what you're saying about accommodation. We're not headed to the same place as you but have you thought about a holiday let? That's what we're doing. Try looking at www. holidayhouses.co.nz (http://)

Good luck. As someone else on here has said, just make lots of lists - it'll make you feel like you're in control!

Kate

[Dazza]

I know how you feel, as we dropped our house by £5k. Then we had a cash buyer come along.We only have about 6 weeks until we go, looking to exchange contracts in a few weeks time.

We are looking to settle in Christchurch.Do you have any areas in mind?

Very best of luck and I will keep my fingers crossed for you.

Cheers :cheers

Wendy
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[Hannah]

Hooray, well done on house sale.

If you can bear it, leave booking into a motel until you get here and haggle. We travelled for 5 weeks around NZ (July/Aug, off season) and never paid more than $85 a night, just by haggling. Better deals for longer stays and you can ask for cheaper stay if you go without having room cleaned daily etc. Palmerson North had some great deals but quality varies. We looked at 'holiday let' fully furnished rentals when we came this time and houses were very expensive (around $500+ a week) but chalets (also fully furnished, on holiday parks) were $300 a week and included elec, gas etc. You will be coming off season so more options. Busiest time in Palmy is Jan/Feb when students arrive and looking for digs, but if you are coming April onwards i think you'll have lots of choices and haggling power.

[kiwidollie]

Congratulations on your house sale. We had to drop the price of ours as well but the way we saw it was it was money we'd never had and it was giving us the freedom to finally get off and follow our 'dream'.

Hope everything goes smoothly for you from here on.

Alison