Travel to Australia from UK?

Has anyone travelled to Australia from the UK? My wife and I are looking to go in August 2009 and wanted to know the best way to do it... best place to book flights... best places to go... best places to stay... we are looking for cheap ways as we have just got married and are particularly skint. any advise is welcome!

Ring the diplomatic representative- I thing governor or delegate something similar- of Australia in London and put them all these questions.They may help you.

As an Aussie I think Melbourne will be cheaper City for you.

Take advantage of cheaper fares by booking as far in advance as possible. This is a really good website to find the cheapest flights: http://www.openjet.co.uk/index.jsp

I'm sure you know that August is winter in Australia and it can get pretty chilly. Not as cold as England, but still single figures in celcius.

Save time and money by booking internal flights in Australia, definitely the best way to travel otherwise you may be stuck on a bus for 20 hours. Hotels can be found here too:
http://travel.webjet.com.au/webjettsa/home.aspx?EntryPoint=Flight

This website is great for finding cheap places to stay, just choose your city and nights then narrow the search to budget hotels...

So many places to go - Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Cairns - you don't say how long you intend to visit, so there are plenty of other places, these are just the main ones.

You can also stopover and see another place on the way there or back, or both. The long haul flight is really hard and it's great to break it up by stopping over. Depending on the airline, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok are the main stopover destinations. A couple of nights stay makes jetlag easier to deal with.

its not worth going anywhere other than sydney or melbourne. everywhere else is an absolute hole. unless u like thousands of km's of country towns?

both are quite expensive to live in but im not sure about holidaying.

sorry this isnt much help.

i think sydney is better than melbourne but thats prob coz i live here =p

You can get cheaper hotel prices here at http://www.AmericaCheapHotels.com