Mr & Mrs Smith are giving away a 12 day luxury holiday to Australia for 2 people. This is a competition which has really got the Australia Bargains team mouth watering. Included in the prize is Qantas London Sydney Flights and then a whirlwind tour of some of the coolest hotels in Australia.

• 2 nights at Medusa in Darlinghurst including car rental.
• 3 nights in wonderful Byron Bay staying at Gaia Resort & Spa. Includes meals and treatments!
• 2 nights at Tonic in the Hunter Valley wine district.
• 3 nights at Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa in The Blue Mountains.
• 2 nights at Jonah’s at Whale Beach, Northern Beaches, Sydney.

Various meals and activities included along the way makes us thing this will be a holiday of a lifetime. To top it off there is also £1000 to spend on luxurious swimwear, travel bags and accessories.

Win an Australia Holiday

To enter just head over to the Mr & Mrs Smith Competition Page before the closing date of 31st May 2010 and answer this easy question :

What makes the Blue Mountains blue?

• Naughty-shaped rock formations
• Evaporated oil from eucalyptus trees
• Smurfs, seen from afar

Fly Qantas.

Qantas is the world’s most experienced airline, having flown continuously for over 89 years. Qantas was founded in the Queensland outback in 1920 and will celebrate their 90th birthday this year. Qantas began flight operations with joy rides and air taxi flights. During the Second World War, Qantas maintained vital air links, flew supply drops at treetop level in (Papua) New Guinea and established ‘Double Sunrise’ non-stop flights across the Indian Ocean with Catalina flying boats operating in radio silence.

Qantas Best Prices

Take a Two Week Walkabout with Qantas – Australia from £646*
Qantas has teamed up with Tourism Australia to let the UK know that you don’t need a long time to explore Australia. In just a Two Week Walkabout you’ll have a fantastic holiday, returning home feeling rejuvenated and revived. Getting to and around Australia is easy with Qantas offering 28 flights a week from the United Kingdom and an unrivalled network of over 50 Australia domestic destinations.
Experience Australia for yourself – fly return economy from London Heathrow to:
Perth £646*
Melbourne £671*
Sydney £685*
Cairns £757*
Offer ends 6 April 2010, unless sold out prior. Australia Flights From UK valid for travel from 16 April to 20 June 2010. Availability is limited.
To find out more or to book click here

* Prices based on payment at qantas.com. A surcharge of GBP15 per person applies to telephone bookings made through Qantas Airways.

Here’s a free to enter online competition with a fantastic tour of Australia as the star prize. Plus it’s easy to enter!

Win

The main prize will consist of a ten night holiday for two exploring the Victoria, Australia’s Southern Touring Route. The prize includes flights, airport tax, accommodation at various very nice looking hotels along the way, transfers, 6 days’ (medium) car hire and return flights to Melbourne with Etihad Airways via Abu Dhabi.

Here a few of the rules – UK only. Winner will be contacted by 15th Jan 2010. The prize is non transferable and has to be taken between January 15th and November 30th 2010 and is subject to some availability and black out dates which apply over Australia bank holidays and certain sporting events in addition to airline blackout dates.

How to win this free holiday to Australia

easy! leave your name and email address here and keep your fingers crossed.

New Melbourne flights in time for Christmas

If you are thinking about travelling to Melbourne, Australia for Christmas 2009 / New Year 2010  you should in general book as early as possible to get the cheapest airfares. Qatar Airways entry to the market should help keep prices down this year. Qatar Airways have announced they will be flying from London to Melbourne from the 5th December 2009 with a three times a week service until 29th December and then starting daily flights from the 31st December 2009 and continue through 2010. The flights depart from Heathrow and have  a short stop in Doha.

Book online at Qatar Airways for the lowest fares.

Here’s a pretty special prize for wine lovers and Australia fans. Naked Wines is giving one lucky winner the chance to become a winemaker for a week.

Prize

The lucky winner will get travel to South Australia including flights to Australia from the UK, accommodation, food and drink as well as a tour of Adelaide and an overnight trip to Kangaroo Island. The main reason for the competition is to give the winner a chance to blend their own wine and learn from Australian wine experts.

How to win

You have to come up with a great name for a new wine. The winner will be chosen by public vote.

Update : Competition Now Closed

Competition Closing Date

The closing date for the competition is 07/10/2009 and the winner will be notified by 14/10/2009.

Was on the Etihad Airways website today and stumbled upon a competition they are running with free flights to Brisbane up for grabs. There is one prize for UK residents and one for EIRE residents of a pair of return economy flights to Brisbane with Etihad who are now flying to Brisbane from Manchester, London and Dublin via Abu Dhabi.

Check out the game here. The closing date is the end of October 2009.

There’s runner up prizes to go and see Chelsea, Manchester City or Harlequins too.

Cairns to Sydney is a classic Australia backpacker tour.
Highlights include Magnetic Island – a backpackers paradise, Byron Bay – a Surfers Paradise, Airlie Beach – gateway to the stunning WhitSunday Islands, and world heritage listed Fraser Island the world’s largest sand island. On this tour you’ll get the opportunity to sleep in a swag, eat bushman’s tucker, spot a koala, sail The Whitsunday islands, dive or snorkel the Great Barrier Reef, surf and sample Aussie wine. Tempted? There’s loads more information and a detailed itinerary by clicking the map below.

In terms of weather many people think it’s best to do a Cairns to Sydney tour before the Australian summer as it will be getting a bit hot and sticky up North so it’s a great time to migrate South for the cooler climate in Sydney.

Air New Zealand who fly to New Zealand via Hong Kong have an interesting offer on for anyone that wants to visit both Australia and New Zealand. You can book a flight to Auckland, New Zealand for travel in 2010 and they will let you add on a return flight from Auckland to Australia (Choose between Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Cairns and Gold Coast) where you pay only the taxes and fuel supplement. To illustrate this they say the add on fare is only £54 but will vary with currency and fuel price fluctuations.

One of the nice things about flying with Air New Zealand is you can book an around the world itinerary and fly to Auckland from London via Hong Kong in one direction and via Los Angeles in the other direction.

Offer only available online at http://www.airnewzealand.co.uk/ until 05 October 2009. Valid for travel from 15 Apr 2010 to 15 Jun 2010.

Edit : This competition is now closed but here is another chance to win a holiday to Melbourne.

Nothing is a better price than free !

Here’s an opportunity for one lucky winner to enjoy a free holiday to Australia including flights to Melbourne, car hire from Melbourne airport and seven nights hotel stay in Melbourne. Total value of the trip which is for the winner of the free to enter competition and a friend is £2500.

Competition closes 30th September 2009.

This competition was arranged by Flight Centre, Australia Travel Market and Tourism Victoria.