You are reading my mind, Amanda! I've been trnyig to plan a summer holiday for the BF and I for mid Feb next year. We want a mixture of somewhere cheap, but also warm. But I'm trnyig to decide if it's worth going away in the NZ summer! Surely it makes more sense to go away in NZ winter to somewhere warm?! It was either between Phuket, Cairns or Raro. At the moment I'm thinking of Cairns, but the BF thinks it'll be boring. I think it'd be great to be able to lay on the beach and sock up the sun but also do other things like snorkel etc. Plus, they have some great deals to Cairns! My other idea was doing a road trip around the south island, but I worry about the price of that. I'm not sure how it would compare cause I haven't looked in to it at all. I kind of have my heart set on Cairns though. It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who wants to go there. Everyone else I've spoken to about it looks at me like I have three heads.