Activating visa possibilities?

[cutchibear]

Hi all,

 

My husband and I are beginning to look into our options for activating our visa within the next 10 months.

 

We have a couple of options:

 

1) Fly to Perth (our visa is WA state sponsored) and spend a week or so here.

2) Fly to Brisbane and stay with OH's family for a week.

3) Do a combination of Perth/Brisbane.

 

We really want to keep costs down - we know we'll have all the time in the world to appreciate the country once we move for good. We like the first option as flights appear cheaper and a shorter flight time, but we would then need to find some reasonable accommodation(any suggestions?)

 

But if we go to Brisbane we could atleast stay with family.

 

The final option would be ideal but most costly.

 

Any suggestions, ideas to keep costs down? We really want to save all the pennies we can for the big move in a couple of years!

 

Lx

[Jit7]

Where are you hoping to live once you actually make the move over?

 

It would make sense to go there so you get a feel for the place rather than spending all that money just to validate the visa.

 

Are you not able to just move over within the next 10 months so you dont need a validation trip?

[bell123321]

I think option 3 will be to expensive if you are keeping costs down. If you are moving to WA your first option would be good to get a feel for the place but I imagine accomadation will make it a lot more expensive then staying with family in Brisbane. I guess it is down to your budget and what you want to gain from your trip.