[Closed] Wedding in Perth (australia)

I have done Australia 3 times now, Sydney and Melbourne so around 2-3 hours more than Perth i recall.

In my opinion doing it over a long weekend would be a truly horrible experience.

From my experience, you would be flying in what I think is the jet lag direction. You'll be okay coming home but going there will kill you. Or it could just be me who suffers more that way around.

If the wedding is Saturday, you'll probably survive, I'd try and squeeze an extra day or two if i were in your shoes. However, ultimately, having fun is a great cure for jet lag so if you're catching up with your mate and doing your bit, it might not be that hard.

There, loads of waffle and no real answer. Hope that helps!

combination of the travel time and the jetlag will mean you're pretty messed up while you're there. on the plus side, the jetlag will go really quickly when you get back as you'll barely have got your bodyclock out of this timezone.

Not meaning to be rude or personal, but are you on medication for your obvious insanity ?

And remember you lose a day in one direction, depending which way you fly, so thursday-sunday will be more like wednesday-tuesday. I would think with Perth via South Africa or UAE would be the best route.

You will still be a zombie at the wedding, with that fun combination of Jet Lag, dehydration and no sleep for 30 hours, and feeling just like you spent 10 hours hanging around airports, cos you have. That's me for a week after I fly to NZ and back have done that many many times.

just stay pissed. you can deal with it that way.

You really dont want to be doing that. I wouldn't do that journey for less than a fortnights holiday and even that would be pushing it.

Expect to zone out at around 4-5pm on the day. You might remain awake but no-one will be home, no matter how many flat whites you have. Seems a big ask for the money and effort if you can't make more of a holiday of it. If I had to do it, I'd land at Perth on the morning of the wedding and just try and get as much kip on the plane so I could keep going. You could try adjusting your clock the week before you leave (late nights etc).

ps. Emirates do quite a useful service from London to Perth via Dubai.

Fly business/first, you'll be fine 🙂

Having done the trip a lot of times (Sydney rather than Perth) I agree that under normal circumstances you wouldn't want to do it for less than 10 days if you want to have any valuable time when out there. However if you sleep OK on planes, choose the right flights, and prepare well beforehand then it could work. If you left early Thursday, slept as much as possible on the plane (take some drugs), stayed up as long as possible on Friday once you arrived (you'd get there mid afternoon I guess)solid night's sleep on Friday then I reckon you'd be pretty functional for Saturday. Back on Sunday, though I wouldn't plan a busy day at work the following Monday.

So what if you're jetlagged for a while? its hardly life threatening.

What's the worst that could happen?

Do it.....

Do it. You'll manage and might get a bit zombied but if you can sleep on planes then the excitement of the wedding and the madness of it all will keep you going.

Don't forget the electronic visa thingy that you do online for Australia.

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Even a couple of weeks in Australia is a bit short. Especially if you're not used to long flights. A week's trip is a week of jetlag & feeling rough, then just when you're feeling okay again, you head home for another week of tiredness.

If you're literally thinking of leaving the UK on Thursday and flying back on Sunday (meaning you'll get there at early o'clock on Saturday, and get back to the UK at some time on Monday), that is truly insane - you'll be spending more time in airports and planes than you will be in Australia.

You could probably do it on adrenaline, but it'd be a truly horrible experience. Obviously you have to think about how many holidays you have spare with work, but personally I'd try and make it at least a week and a half, bearing in mind staying in Australia is pretty cheap. Also, if you fly long haul for less than a week, it is often about £1000 extra, as they assume anyone who has to get back home that quickly probably really has to do the trip, so will pay more money.

Joe

Flown that route many times as I used to live there, jet lag never affected me, more time in airports than actually socializing will be the biggest killer though.

Oh plus the price of the flights. (Singapore and Emiraits have got to be the best to fly with).

Thanks for all your thought, really can't stay longer due to no holiday left this year and can't use next years (company policy), my wife also works evenings so with two kids, under 3, would be exra childcare or loss of £ due to her not working for those days.
I can sleep on planes slept the whole 8 hrs to thailand once. Will check out flight costs think that will be the deciding factor, I will have to resign myself to feeling crap for a while.
My best man (whose wedding it is did the same journey/flights in reverse to do the deed for me, although I'm only an usher for him.

My best man (whose wedding it is did the same journey/flights in reverse to do the deed for me, although I'm only an usher for him.

Lucky you! If flying to Perth for three days is bad, then the only way it could get any worse is by having best man responsibility at the other end.

I can sleep on planes slept the whole 8 hrs to thailand once.

Bear in mind that London -> Perth is going to be a good 20 hours flight, not including the time at airports at start/end, and you'll have a couple of hours at least in that time when you're forced to get up, get off the plane to change planes. Even if you can sleep on planes (I can sleep on planes easily), it messes you right up.

Joe

i flew to brisbane for 3 days, back to uk for 4, then tokyo for 5. it's not that big a deal.

I have done the trip plenty of times as I now live in Perth. You will be fine if you can sleep on the plane I reckon.

Look at www.airasia.com for flights, budget airline that now does long haul through KL. They are half the price of the competition and not bad.

Depends how much you want to do it. I once flew from NZ to Heathrow was there a day (!) and then came back. Didn't have jetlag as such just confusion. I flew business as well. Did 5 days in the UK at the start of the year so 32hrs door to door then 5 days and back on the plane. Was OK but took me twice as long to recover when i got back.