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Jetlag...London to New Zealand
Firstly, thanks for all the interesting posts, including warning on flying to NZ. I'm trying to get some info on jetlag, from which I suffer bigtime. Is it worth stopping off for a few days to recover, say, in Tokyo or Singapore, and then on to NZ, or just try to get there as quickly as possible and do all the suffering at once. Tricky to get advice on Google, where the world and his wife are blathering various homespun twaddle....
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Permalink Reply by Emma on
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Hi I did NZ earlier this year and we did a straight run all the way.
This was OK but on the way back was a killer....
If I was doing it again I would do a straight run going out, on the way back stop off...we wanted to max our time out there as we were going for a month so I guess it's depending how long you want to spend travelling...
I also got some melatonin which helped with sleeping it's herbal stuff to help with sleeping.
Emma
NZ is amazing and so worth the long haul!!!
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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In the plane, get up regularly and walk around to get the blood circulating. Do a stopover if time and money allow.
A rule of thumb is that one takes a day to recover for every Time Zone passed at speed. Thus, 12 times zones crossed at c.500mph = more than a week to recover fully. In practice, its more like two or three days.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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In my experience going back over Asia the jetlag is much worse than coming here. Apparently this is because you're going against the spin of the earth. The best routes are over the North Pole (Japan, South Korea refuelling), they're also the least amount of flying time. You're going over for a holiday so you'll recover quicker than when I've come back at 6:30am and gone in to work.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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image: Arthur's Pass winterscape
Two things re minimizing the effects of jetlag (which I have at the moment having returned from NZ yesterday) is;
- try and get some sleep, any hours possible during flights, sticking to your London time when leaving from here and take a travel pillow
- do your best to get through the day once in NZ and fall asleep to their night time. Landing around the middle part of the day should help with this
You will probably fly out of Heathrow T2 which is only a year old in it's current reincarnation. An improved experience but it's still Heathrow and therefore be prepared for possible problems.
As Emma says, NZ is worth the long haul esp the South Island, which is seriously stunning!
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Reminds my figure-eight trip round the South Island, in an Austin A40, in winter. Snow chains at Mt Cook; hand-cranking to start the motor there too. Crossed the Southern Alps twice: once over Arthur's Pass and later in the opposite direction over the Lewis Pass. The South Island is of course, magnificent.
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