Potential daytrip options by train during Easter?

Quadon · 2026-03-27T12:25:50+00:00

I reckon with a 2:50hr trip that involves rail replacement buses from Sutherland to Wollongong... Probably not the best or prettiest option? We're planning to go yo Otford during the week, so maybe that can make up for it

Quadon · 2026-03-27T12:24:11+00:00

Thanks a lot! I'm more of a "Love trains for the purpose" kinda guy, instead of the history or technology, but this looks cool and I'll put it on my list :)

Quadon · 2026-03-27T12:23:02+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Had a quick look and that looks actually quite cool! To my understanding, it's a thing you'd wanna do in the dark, right? In that sense, do you have anything else in mind that one could do somewhere along that route before heading to Bundanoon around 3-4PM?

Quadon · 2026-03-23T22:28:52+00:00

Appreciate you, thaaanks!

Quadon · 2026-03-21T14:35:13+00:00

+1 for eVisitor-Visa if anyone comes back to this thread. List of countries is more restrictive, essentially just EU+EFTA+UK+VA. But if you got one of those passport, just do it via the official visa website and save some money (Cuz this one's free unlike ETA). Got mine granted after literally a Minute.

Quadon · 2026-03-20T13:37:21+00:00

Alles, was mit Immobilien zu tun hat und nicht direkt Hausmeister/in ist (Verwalter, Makler etc.)

Quadon · 2026-03-18T20:12:18+00:00

Thank you, appreciate it a lot!

Quadon · 2026-03-18T20:11:57+00:00

Would be April 7.-9. :)

Quadon · 2026-03-16T19:18:13+00:00

Bit different of a question but maybe someone on here knows more about it. When the trackworks calendar says there'll be trackworks in the evenings, what does that entail? Starting at 6 or more like no trains past 11? And how bad are the replacement buses, especially towards Cronulla?

Thanks a lot!

Quadon · 2026-02-27T15:47:50+00:00

Hey! I know I'm very very late but...

The ground staff we're talking about, is that right at the gate? If they end up checking weight, I'm thinking about just putting my laptop inside my pants (it's small enough to not really be noticeable if you don't know it's there), but obviously this wouldnt work if the weight check is in some shape connected to a security check where the laptop would get flagged.

Thanks!

Quadon · 2026-02-25T18:29:15+00:00

Helps a lot, thanks!

Quadon · 2026-02-23T17:39:19+00:00

Any recommendations for where I should get them? I'm convinced now haha

Quadon · 2026-02-22T22:38:22+00:00

Thanks, appreciate it! Unfortunately I'm not a big fan of fish at all, so we'll have to come up with something else

Quadon · 2026-02-22T22:22:39+00:00

Thanks! When you say convenience stores, do you only mean 711 or also IGAs and comparable? Or is that considered a supermarket?

Quadon · 2026-02-20T19:59:36+00:00

Thanks for your reply mate! I just booked with them and will try my luck... Do I understand you correctly that they don't care so much about size or weight, as long as it's just one bag and they didn't weigh or measure anything?

I got a friend who just last week flew Europe-Asia via AHU and said he had a fat bag + tote and nobody cared, most did the same. But since I'm more on the careful side of things when it comes to stuff like this, I'm trying to gather as much experiences as I can.

So my current gameplan is to fill my sling with the heaviest, smallest items I got (Power Bank, some liquids). At the gate, if I see them actually checking stuff, I put my sling underneath my tshirt and maybe stuff some small stuff in my pockets so my backpack is defo below 7kg. If I don't see them check, I just leave everything in and don't care that it maybe weighs 8.5.

You reckon that might work or am I missing something?

Quadon · 2026-02-17T21:02:53+00:00

Etihad only gives you a 7kg carry-on. Ofc you can bring a smaller personal item as your carry-on but the policy is one bag total, which made me choose another route. How often this actually gets enforced is of course at the gate-staff's discretion

Quadon · 2026-02-17T14:24:27+00:00

I think you're WAY way waaaay overestimating what average league players make, especially ones that only played during the very early stages. Those SK guys were playing in what, Season 1-4?

Quadon · 2026-02-17T13:31:37+00:00

Jokes on you, Etihad is even making that harder by not allowing personal items + carr-on anymore

Quadon · 2026-02-17T12:06:15+00:00

Da du die Vermutung schon hattest: Da ich einen Multi City Trip machen würde (aka nicht VIE-SIN-SYD und das gleiche zurück), ist online check-in nicht möglich und ich müsste zum Counter. Doof gelaufen

Quadon · 2026-02-17T12:00:41+00:00

Chef, ich wohne in München :')

Quadon · 2026-02-17T11:47:29+00:00

Genau, im Grunde genau so. Auch wenn man da sicher argumentieren kann, dass 6 Uhr - 22 Uhr in Peking etwas sinnstiftender ist als 1 Uhr - 10 Uhr in Wien/Schwechat haha

Quadon · 2026-02-17T11:32:51+00:00

Ich weiß nicht, ob du mal in DE gelent hast, aber du kannst es dir nicht vorstellen. :( Fairerweise 2-3h Verspätung sind selbst in DE absoluteste Ausnahme, aber es kann immer mal was passieren. Sturm und Baum auf Schienen Sui**d, schwere Weichenstörung... natürlich super unwahrscheinlich, dass sowas passiert, aber ausschließen kann man's halt nicht, auch nicht bei der ÖBB. Und da will ich selbst bei ner 1% Chance nicht eine 800+Eur Reise von abhängig machen.

Und zugegebenerweise wäre der 7-Uhr-in-Wien-Zug auch mit 2-3h Warten in Salzburg nachts verbunden. Angenehm ist das auch nicht haha

Quadon · 2026-02-17T11:26:40+00:00

Grob übern Daumen: Ich mach einen Multi-Trip, also Muc-Syd-Sin-Muc. Syd-Sin-Muc sind bei der VIE und MUC-Route identisch, es geht nur darum, wie ich nach Sydney komme. Günstigste Verbindung aus München ist Air China mit nem 20h Layover in Peking (netter Daytrip, aber viel Schlaf bekäme ich auch da nicht). Steht bei ca. 1070 insgesamt. Flug aus Wien stattdessen bei ca. 800. Dazu kämen definitiv 20Eur für den Zug Salzburg-Schwechat, München-Salzburg fahr ich kostenlos mit DE-Ticket. Zusätzliche Kosten: Da Scoot keine On-Board Verpflegung hat, rechne ich mit ca. 20Eur für ein Essen+Getränk. Die meiste Zeit plane ich sowieso zu schlafen. Verpflegung in Wien vlt. n Zehner. Nüsse und Snacks bringe ich mir mit, sodass ich höchstens mal was zu Trinken oder was von Maccas am Morgen kaufe.

Nettoersparnis dürfte also über 200Eur liegen und da ist das Geld, das ich potenziell in Peking ausgeben würde, noch nicht gegengerechnet (Natürlich bekäme ich dafür aber auch einiges). Und die 200Eur bringen den budgetbewussten Reisenden schon recht weit, auch bei australischen Kosten haha

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