Auckland hits back at Aussie media s call to avoid Kiwi City
16 Apr, 2021 04:26 AM
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Travel-starved Australians are unlikely to heed calls to Avoid Auckland . Photo / Todd Eyre, ATEED
Thomas Bywater is a writer and digital producer for Herald Travelthomas.bywater@nzherald.co.nz@ThomasBywater
The transtasman safe travel route is imminent. Next week Auckland Airport will see 400 plane loads of Aussies unload in the first wave of quarantine-free visitors to New Zealand.
However, according to some travel critics, they are all making a mistake.
An article in Traveller.com.au magazine has told Australians to Avoid Auckland . Offering general advice on the risk of Covid travel disruption the story wrote-off New Zealand s largest city as too high a risk of a snap lockdown to visit.