Reply To: Auckland Airport – 4 am arrival

[Ladyshopper]

We stayed at the airport Novotel in Auckland, as we only had one night there. Landed at 5am ish, and walked over the road to it. They were happy to keep our luggage, and the lady on reception said she would have happily given us a room if she had one available, but she didn’t. She did say there would be one at around 10am if we wanted to wait, but we just wanted to get going as knew we would be fit to drop fairly early on in the evening! There wasn’t a shower available, which was a shame, so just had a bit of a freshen up in the toilets along with an outfit change (we had also showered and changed in Doha, and of course did the same when we checked into our room later that day).

I had enquired beforehand about an early check in, but they came back with a really expensive figure (to me) and didn’t think it was worth it.

In terms of food, we brought a lot with us, as we’re gluten free and didn’t want to be having to go to supermarkets before we picked up a hire car, when we were suffering jetlag etc. It was things like bread, crackers, breakfast cereal, sweet treats etc. All packaged goods, and none of them broke the rules (that I could see). We declared we had food, and when asked what it was I gave the list above and they couldn’t have been less interested. I made sure neither of us had any opened food from the flight.