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Under $170
Take your partner and grab your favourite couple for three nights at BreakFree The Waterfront in Queenstown. Four people can share a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment and pay $169 each, quad-share.
Travel by November 30.
Contact: Harvey World Travel, 0800 80 84 80.
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Under $180
If you plan to see a performance of Phantom of the Opera in Auckland between October 14 and November 16, deluxe rooms for two at the Mercure Hotel Windsor are on offer for $179 a night.
Contact: Mercure Auckland, (09) 309 9979.
On the web: www.mercure.co.nz.
Under $400
Two nights for two people - with dinner, daily breakfasts and a two-hour brunch cruise on Lake Taupo - costs $399. Stay at Lake Resort Taupo and receive a bottle of bubbly and the Herald each morning. Valid until May 31.
Contact: Lake Resort Taupo, (07) 378 3893.
On the web: www.jasons.com/hotdeal.
Under $870
Travel as a couple - with another couple in tow - to the 2009 Australian Open Tennis Tournament in Melbourne and get quad-share accommodation from $869 each or $1419 each with return airfares from Auckland. Each ticket allows attendance at two tennis matches, on January 19 or 20. Stay at the five-star Stamford Plaza in a two-bedroom suite with two bathrooms. Other packages are available for various tennis matches. Book and pay by October 31.
Contact: your travel agent or Keith Prowse Entertainment Travel, 0800 94 94 90.
On the web: www.keithprowse.com.
Under $1000
Short breaks are available throughout the Christmas and New Year holiday season, ranging from $995 each, twin-share at the Chateau Tongariro to $2869 each for seven nights on Norfolk Island.
Options are designed for "mature active travellers".
Contact: Golden Holidays, 0800 804 159, or visit www.goldenholidays.co.nz.