{"id":2271,"date":"2010-09-23T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2010-09-23T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T20:18:49","slug":"shoestring-budget-bus-travel-reduces-transportation-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/shoestring-budget-bus-travel-reduces-transportation-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoestring Budget: Bus travel reduces transportation costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When traveling around a country, bus travel can significantly reduce your transportation costs in comparison to flights. So long as you aren\u2019t on a tight schedule, then buses offer low fares and the ability to see the passing areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/stray-bus.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-317\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/stray-bus.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>Students on our <a href=\"http:\/\/auip.com\/programs\/northqueensland.php\">Australia programs<\/a> have had positive experiences on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozexperience.com\/\">Oz Experience<\/a> hop on hop off buses, as <a href=\"http:\/\/auip.com\/programs\/newzealand.php\">New Zealand<\/a> participants have said the same about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straytravel.com\/\">Stray<\/a> buses, pictured left.<\/p>\n<p>We recently read in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/travel\/2010-09-21-businesstravel21_CV_N.htm\"><em>USA Today<\/em> article<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boltbus.com\/\">BoltBus<\/a> in the U.S. that offers cheap fares and free Internet for trips between major cities.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t tried it out yet but think the buses sound appealing, especially as air travel delays and security lines seem to worsen.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you\u2019ve tried any buses in the South Pacific or BoltBus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When traveling around a country, bus travel can significantly reduce your transportation costs in comparison to flights. So long as you aren\u2019t on a tight schedule, then buses offer low fares and the ability to see the passing areas. Students on our Australia programs have had positive experiences on Oz Experience hop on hop off buses, as New Zealand participants&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26,22,17,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-north-queensland","category-australia-northern-territory","category-australia-south-queensland","category-australia-sydney","category-new-zealand","category-shoestring-budget"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}