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China Southern: Tokyo Return from Melbourne $575, Sydney $601 (Feb-Apr) via Guangzhou @ Beat That Flight

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China Southern: Tokyo Return from Melbourne $575, Sydney $601 (Feb-Apr) via Guangzhou @ Beat That Flight
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Associatedbeatthatflight on 11/01/2024 - 21:05 beatthatflight.com.au (1887 clicks)
Last edited 12/01/2024 - 21:19 by 1 other user

Full service, 4-star airline including 2x23kg checked luggage, to Tokyo, Japan. Flights from Melbourne from $575, and Sydney from $601. Return. Including much of the sakura season, as well as Easter 2024!

Also see the competing Air China post.

The cherry blossom or sakura is never perfectly predictable, but some early predictions are below:

A friend has a video series on the 10 Best Cherry Blossom Sakura Spots in Japan - Tokyo, Yamanashi! [4K] (CC)

Destination First bloom Full bloom
Kochi March 17 March 25
Kumamoto March 19 March 28
Hiroshima March 26 April 3
Kyoto March 26 April 4
Nagoya March 24 April 1
Kanazawa March 31 April 6
Tokyo March 19 March 26
Matsumoto April 2 April 11
Fuji Five Lakes April 2 April 10
Sendai March 31 April 6
Hirosaki April 20 April 26
Hakodate April 26 May 3

As such, I've compiled dates before and after Easter in 2024.

I also have an article on the top 5 most popular hotels in Tokyo for under $120.

Sydney to Tokyo on China Southern

Dates: 13 Feb 24 - 30 Apr 24

Return Price Travel Dates
$633 13 Feb to 22 Feb
$602 15 Feb to 13 Mar
$601 15 Feb to 15 Mar
$603 21 Feb to 15 Mar
$601 21 Feb to 17 Mar
$602 21 Feb to 21 Mar
$601 23 Feb to 21 Mar
$604 25 Feb to 13 Mar
$602 25 Feb to 21 Mar
$602 27 Feb to 27 Mar
$605 29 Feb to 13 Mar
$605 10 Mar to 27 Mar
$604 12 Mar to 21 Mar
$603 14 Mar to 27 Mar
$601 16 Mar to 16 Apr
$602 18 Mar to 18 Apr
$601 20 Mar to 16 Apr
$602 20 Mar to 18 Apr
$602 9 Apr to 18 Apr
$602 11 Apr to 18 Apr

Melbourne to Tokyo on China Southern

Dates: 13 Feb 24 - 30 Apr 24

Return Price Travel Dates
$678 13 Feb to 13 Mar
$577 15 Feb to 15 Mar
$577 19 Feb to 17 Mar
$575 21 Feb to 17 Mar
$575 25 Feb to 21 Mar
$577 27 Feb to 27 Mar
$577 29 Feb to 27 Mar
$575 2 Mar to 27 Mar
$578 4 Mar to 27 Mar
$578 6 Mar to 27 Mar
$579 8 Mar to 15 Mar
$578 10 Mar to 21 Mar
$575 13 Mar to 9 Apr
$577 16 Mar to 16 Apr
$577 19 Mar to 19 Apr
$578 9 Apr to 16 Apr
$578 12 Apr to 19 Apr

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  • ashumz on 11/01/2024 - 21:07
    +9

    Never BNE :(

    • Associatedbeatthatflight @ Beat That Flight on 11/01/2024 - 21:12
      +4

      They actually do fly ex BNE, but I couldn't find anything under a grand! Cheaper to just grab a flight down to SYD/MEL then out.

      • morse on 12/01/2024 - 03:45
        +3

        Cheaper but not as pleasant/convenient. Especially as you need to allow time for checkin, bag drop/retrieval and security screen for both flights. Whilst the actual flight to Sydney is only 90mins it probably adds 3hrs each way to total travel time to do this.

        • Last Seen on 12/01/2024 - 07:50
          +2

          Exactly right. This is a great deal but I'll happily wait for an ex BNE one.

          BNE SYD gets even worse if the domestic leg is cancelled and rebooked on you at the last minute, as happened to me.

    • Zanosaur on 11/01/2024 - 21:55
      +2

      IKR! We rarely get any good flight deals here….

      • wisdomtooth on 12/01/2024 - 10:06

        I did…

        • Thunderdownunder on 12/01/2024 - 18:38
          +1

          Yeah, $hit star still owes me for a hotel overnight as the Pilots for my flight back to brizzy, Both where not 'Cleared' for duty In Narita.
          Apparently they did not pass the D&A tests.
          Never again with this Mob.. Never!

  • runamuck on 11/01/2024 - 21:11
    +54

    Including lay over, fastest is 27 hours from Sydney. Yikes!!!

    • solacens on 11/01/2024 - 21:26
      +12

      Thanks for saving me some time to click for informations.

    • mskeggs on 11/01/2024 - 22:04

      There are a few Sydney flights at 15 hours, but also 31 hours! Not for those in a hurry.

    • ryefig on 12/01/2024 - 11:16
      +5

      The total flight time is actually a really important consideration.

      I appreciate you bringing these deals to our attention @beatthatflight, perhaps in the future you could consider including information on the shortest possible flight times with your deals?

  • leroy on 11/01/2024 - 21:30

    The flight I’m looking at lands in China at 5.50pm flight to Tokyo doesn’t leave till 8.15am. Can we leave the airport I assume, book a hotel or do they cover this! Can’t see details anywhere

    • AircraftFreight on 11/01/2024 - 21:32
      +7

      If you are using an Australian Passport (and many other nationalities) you can leave the airport under the free 24/48/72/144 hour visa scheme.

      • humbala on 12/01/2024 - 09:52

        where do you find this information?

        • wackedupwacko on 12/01/2024 - 13:57

          Chinese consulate / embassy has all the details - if you need exact breakdowns and experiences of what eveyrthing means the various flyer forums have lots of people with real life experience of the visas.

    • etan on 11/01/2024 - 21:35
      +1

      They'll provide one night hotel room and transfers.

      • BlitzR on 11/01/2024 - 21:48

        Where did u find this info?

      • itx on 11/01/2024 - 21:48

        They used to do this for all tickets but have scaled it back to exclude the cheapest fares now. That said, budget accommodation is fairly cheap in Guangzhou anyway

      • xbbl on 12/01/2024 - 14:24

        Do you know if the one night hotel room and transfers is valid with these tickets purchased through a third party. Or must tickets be purchased via China Southern direct? Do you know if there a way to check this?

    • jingsu6688 on 11/01/2024 - 22:45

      better get a visa before landing in guanhzhou, you can do the transit visa thing, but the counter and waiting areas are always empty. People reported needs to wait for hours for processing

      • cbomb3r on 12/01/2024 - 10:01
        +2

        100% this, flying china southern through to europe a few years ago, the wait to get out of the airport pretty much used up the entire lay over time and its a very tedious process. Even using China southerns free hotel room and transfers the bulk of the time was spent waiting for temp visa and then waiting in the transfer area.

      • wackedupwacko on 12/01/2024 - 13:59

        I think you'll find transiting through China very different now to precovid. (It's a lot quieter).

        I went through Shanghai recently myself and it was dead - 0 people in queue. Friend went through GZ to shanghai and similarly, fairly empty.

        • AndrewMTG on 13/01/2024 - 12:42

          Well I passed through the airport the other day on my flight to Vietnam. it was literally so dead so yeah I thibk it's empty atm All the shops had nothin no nobody beside staff… you'll only see people waiting at security gate for transfer and very few people who are exiting

  • erics on 11/01/2024 - 21:50
    +14

    Meanwhile I just wanna fly to Guangzhou and it's 1.2k…

    • Rick James18 on 12/01/2024 - 11:07
      -2

      That where Winnie the Pooh at

    • wackedupwacko on 12/01/2024 - 14:00

      try looking at the other chinese airlines, the fact that you have to transit makes the other chinese airlines cheaper generally.

  • EarlyBird on 11/01/2024 - 21:50
    +6

    You'll need a day or two to recover after each of these long flights 😂

  • Tppskk on 11/01/2024 - 21:53
    +9

    Third party website booking + long hour transit in mainland China with Chinese airlines…. No.

    • CloudB on 11/01/2024 - 21:59

      I’m a bit weary of these 3rd party websites too but don’t mind the transit. Can anyone comment on the booking experience? Would it be better booking and dealing directly with the airline?

      • stwongy on 11/01/2024 - 22:17
        +9

        It's always better to book directly with the airline, especially in the case of getting refunds or changing flights when possible

      • blighst on 12/01/2024 - 07:53

        People here are sooks. Just don't make mistakes booking and don't need to change flights/refund and it's a no brainer for the savings. Just make sure to pay with the preferred payment method if you can ( this can change day to day)

        Some of the online agents are worse than others, but looks like the cheap flights here are from Flightnetwork/Mytrip which are owned by same parent.

  • Gdsamp on 11/01/2024 - 22:00

    Bali 2

    • teereb on 11/01/2024 - 23:56
      +5

      Japan is pretty cheap man. But you should take 5 minutes to look. Check out a few stay places, booking.com etc etc.

      Food can be insanely cheap too.

      • killabob on 12/01/2024 - 13:20

        This is not my experience so far whilst trying to organise accommodation! $$$

        • Pyrock on 12/01/2024 - 14:30

          Tokyo accommodation? Yea not the cheapest but not horrible. But pretty much everywhere else I stayed on my Japan trip was pretty good.

          Everywhere was tiny though. But that's also how they just live.

    • blighst on 12/01/2024 - 07:51

      Lit

    • Andard on 12/01/2024 - 10:24

      Why is this downvoted so much lol

      • AndrewMTG on 12/01/2024 - 14:32

        I don't know :( I just express my desire to live in Japan for a bit… a month seems fun

        • Andard on 12/01/2024 - 14:37

          Do it dude you won't regret it

          • AndrewMTG on 13/01/2024 - 04:40

            @Andard: Yeah! Idk if my mum will let me… Maybe I'll go for a week instead!! Or hopefully two weeks?

            • Andard on 13/01/2024 - 14:55

              @AndrewMTG: At least 2 weeks. You need to recover from the long travel + stopover

    • wackedupwacko on 12/01/2024 - 14:04
      +2

      Accomodation depends heavily on what you can tolerate. 12-15sqm room by yourself? ~100-150 per night in tokyo. 20-25sqm? 200-250
      Bed in dorm? $50-80.

      Don't want to be in tokyo? you can get the same for significantly cheaper in a city like Sendai or Nagoya. for the same 12-15sqm it'd generally be $80-120 in Sendai.

      Food is cheaper than here by comparison. anything over $15 a meal means you're eating very well. you could live by on less than $10 a day if you really wanted to with supermarket discounted meals.

      • AndrewMTG on 12/01/2024 - 14:32
        -1

        How far is Sendai or Nagoya… Can I live there and train to the city of tokyo easily?

        • wackedupwacko on 13/01/2024 - 11:35

          There's a huge wealth of resources about Japan these days. I would highly recommend looking various things up that are relevant to your circumstances first.

      • killabob on 12/01/2024 - 14:58

        My issue is fam of 4…either pay for two non-adjoining rooms or 1 tiny room for over $300 for 3 star. First time so worried about AirBnB, apartments, etc.

  • some body on 11/01/2024 - 22:38
    +2

    Can I just get off at Guangzhou?

    • jingsu6688 on 11/01/2024 - 22:45

      Not really

    • EarlyBird on 11/01/2024 - 22:50

      You could but I suspect you wouldn't be allowed on the return flight

    • whyisave on 12/01/2024 - 04:07

      Maybe just with hand luggage only,
      and you will forfeit the rest of the plane ticket.

      In fact, some U.S. airlines record this against your name, as a misdemeanor.

    • neonlight on 12/01/2024 - 10:55

      lol yeah good thinking its cheaper that way. But honestly cheaper than going direct flight, so you are correct

  • countmein on 11/01/2024 - 22:54
    +1

    Wow damn cheap

  • shakoo on 11/01/2024 - 23:11

    OP - any guesses when sales for December/January will be advertised?

  • creeps_bay on 12/01/2024 - 00:09
    -1

    4-Star Airline, but feels more like a 3 star, from my experience

    • May4th on 12/01/2024 - 07:28

      Airlines aren't rated like hotels..

    • creeps_bay on 12/01/2024 - 13:04

      I see negative vote on my comment, that's my personal experience and it may differ to others.
      We took a flight with China Southern, about 10hr journey, the attendant served room temperature drinks and ran out of ice in the first 3hrs of flight.
      Food was served barely warm.
      Attendant calls were ignored.
      Based on this experience, I would say Jetstar has been much better in my personal experience.

      • AndrewMTG on 12/01/2024 - 14:33

        The food was good . I got small sandwiches from Australia like ten times (free) and still got my usual meals and asked for extras they gave it as well! YMMW

    • wackedupwacko on 12/01/2024 - 14:06
      +1

      I honestly taking any rating for airlines with a grain of salt. Qatar is 5* but you can also get a 3* (or even lower sometimes) qatar product if you fly from the subcontinent for example.

  • Dick10 on 12/01/2024 - 08:54

    Fares with long transit times are really not deals. Anything over a few hours is excruciating.

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