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Old 02-12-2017, 11:33 PM
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OzEclipse (Joe Cali)
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Back when you were traveling, bus was very cheap. No longer. These days around Australia, air travel is often much cheaper or the same price as bus over longer distances between major centers and much quicker.

Fly long distances, bus short distances.

Just last week I was looking at getting from Uluru to Alice to Darwin. Bus from ASP-Darwin was 22hrs and $350. Have to add the bus from Uluru to Alice Springs 500km $120 and another 6 hrs arriving at midnight and so a hotel in Alice for the night A total of about $600 including the hotel.

For $536, I booked airfares out of Uluru at 0945 arriving ASP 1030. We have a 7 hr stop over, long enough to take a hire car out to the near parts of the Macdonald ranges (Stanley Chasm, Ellery Creek and downtown Alice) we then board again at 1730 arriving in Darwin at 1915.

If you want to go from Uluru and stay in Alice Springs,
bus transfer is 6hrs $120
air transfer is 45mins and around $200

You'll need to look at each transfer and cost them. My general advice is fly the longer distances but if you enjoy the bus experience, go for it.

Joe
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