I have taken teams to 2 national schools tournaments and flights are not the costly part of the trip, you book well ahead of the dates or fly charter with Chatham Air if they have a plane/pilots available.
The cheaper way is fly Chch to Wellington and hire two mini vans travel up Friday come back Monday. You need to hire transport in Napier anyway and more options for cheaper rates out of Wellington region.
The cheaper way is fly Chch to Wellington and hire two mini vans travel up Friday come back Monday. You need to hire transport in Napier anyway and more options for cheaper rates out of Wellington region.
True, been there done that both ways, charter is fine if you don't get diverted to New Plymouth and then have to bus across the island!
Costs form Dunedin are even worse.
Booking ahead is ok except the Moteliers in Napier know the tournament dates as well funnily enough and hard to get a real discount at that time of year. How much money have they made out of Football over the last 20 years?