Fantastic work Bruce.

Isn't it marvellous that the Q&A bloke from Oz Experience is named Bruce!

Bruce,
I've got a trip coming up and heard that OzEx has recommended or preferred hostels that I can go to.
Can you give me some idea of what savings I might make in taking your recommendations, and I'd like some specific examples if you don't mind please.

And if I have my accomodation booked, you do do drop offs to different hostels in regional cities do you?

And then there are some activities deals too are there?, and again can you give some specific examples.

I'd like to work out how far what I save on deals/dicounts will go in helping me pay for an experience trip.

Be much obliged.

hi larc,

Apologies for the long answer, but unfortunately it's not necessarily a quick answer if you require the details

Oz Experience doesn't have special deals on price for hostels between Sydney and Cairns - you will pay the same rate as any other traveller. What guides can do for you at overnight stops is organise your first nights accommodation. If you are travelling on a pass that includes Sydney via Melbourne Adelaide to Darwin, say, there are savings to be made because there is a local payment system that covers food and accommodation because you will code-share on an Adventure Tours Australia tour. An example of this is the AU$175 local payment you will pay for the 6 days travel between Adelaide and Alice Springs. This includes Accommodation: 3 nights multi-share, 2 nights permanent camp sites, Meals: 5 x Breakfasts, 6 x Lunches, 5 x Dinners (each meal is essentially all you can eat unless you are Homer Simpson)
Other: Uluru National Park fee ($25), Flinders Ranges park fees, Opal Mine Tour

If you have your own accommodation booked, then the guide will drop you at the closest pick up/drop off point. All these are marked on our published Timetables on the Oz Ex website. In many cities we only have one or two of these points because it is not possible to travel to every hostel people might be staying at. In other places we service multiple pick up/drop oiff points. However, drop off/pick up points are at major hostels or there are other hostels picking up travellers from those points.

Examples of some deals on optional activities include upgrade deals on skydiving (free t-shirts, DVD upgrades), up to 20% off some of the Fraser Island guided tours, Discounts on the Fraser Island/Whitsunday Sailing packages, Rafting local deals on the Tully River. Often the deals are short term and others are standard year round. Oz Experience doesn't publish the deals except to travellers on the buses.
So, it's not necessarily possible to work out how much you will save on activities - it's more a question of getting the right advice at the time about the activities you want to do and matching your needs with the right product.

Kind regards

Bruce

Is unbridled sex on wheels still the primary business model Bruce, or are you targeting Baby Boomers and Grey Nomads in the new strategic plan? What are the focus groups throwing up Bruce?

Why havent you people employed bazza yet?

He's not just an icon, he's an ambassador!

Hi ianw6705,

Thanks for your feigned interest and concern about Oz Experience's "business model and strategic plan". All our "focus groups" show that past and continuing disingenuous posts like yours have not affected the enjoyment and satisfaction of the people who actually travel on our services.

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Perhaps "Bruce" is a computer-driven automatic response machine. If not, Bruce must be great at parties.

Welcome to Lonely Planet's Infomercial World...

This morning, we have larc playing the role of Bert Newton, whilst Bruce appears as himself

Good Morning, Australia!

I find myself warming to Bruce's World ... I've always wanted to know what really goes on when the lights go out in the Fuck Truck. I hope they don't zap our Bruce too soon.

Clearly you are new to this forum Bruce because you seemed have missed out on noting that Iarc's question was the disingenuous Dorothy Dixer and no-one was realy interested in the answer whilst Ian's question actually encapsulates criticisms and concerns expressed by many posters about OzEx on this forum.

It's good to see everyone is concerned about Oz Experience. I am trying to be serious and honest and hopefully help people. Oz Experience is not for everyone - many go on it and, just like any traveller coming to Australia, party like rock stars and shag their way around Australia. Others meet new friends and actually try something out of their comfort zone (which is cleary what backpacking is all about) such as going to crocodile and snake farms, riding horses, wrestling a goat, surfing etc - things that Oz Experience also takes them to.
There are two options - I can stop replying to the thread and you can continue to make your comments based on your lack of knowledge on what we are really trying to do (provide a service aimed at a small percentage of the half a million backpackers that travel Australia every year) or, as I intend to do, I will stay in this thread in the hope that people who are serious about travelling in Australia and would like to know something about Oz Experience and can ask sensible questions. Funnily enough people have sex in rental cars, as Greyhound customers, and they even dance on the tables and drink in bars on nights that Oz Experience is not in town - yet Oz Experience is branded the fuck truck. Go figure. Yes, there is lots of sex between people aged 18 to 35, single and travelling in Australia. But there is also a larger portion who are actually travelling for the experience of seeing and doing something different.
I am happy to answer questions on what the best condom to use as well as when the best time to travel is, why the bus does not go to a particular place anymore, how many times a week does the bus go to surf camp and how many surf lessons are included in your pass and does Jack the Driver really love me.
Having said that, I think my post and this thread has proven the point that people need to get their information from many relevant forums not just this one and upon balance develop their own opinions. Your further posts (which no doubt will come) only re-emphasise this point.

Fantastic work Bruce.

Thank you for your commercial posting disingenuously disguised as general interest.

My strategy would be to retire now and do some audience research - maybe even read the conditions of use - before trying these gormless tactics on a mob of gnarly old cyber cynics like the TT.

Is TT now selling space on here?

What next, a post from Westpac on WHV banking needs? Perhaps Flight centre will start a branch?

I can hardly wait.