Dural Junior Rugby Tour 2016 Full Itinerary

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Contact Numbers

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Mobile 021 1404345 Phil Robson

Mobile 021 0542587 Louise Smith

Email [email protected]

Online www.totalrugby.co.nz

Itinerary Specially Prepared forDUBBO JUNIOR RUGBY

Soak it Up 100% Pure New Zealand Rugby Tour September 2016

WELCOMEIt is my pleasure, as Managing Director of Total Rugby, to welcome another Dubbotouring party to New Zealand. We are delighted to have you once again playingrugby and enjoying our hospitality in 2016. Welcome, Haere Mai, and enjoy yourstay.

INTRODUCTORY NOTESWeather: September ..... is late winter / spring weather, which means it can bevery changeable. Temperatures can fluctuate but it is likely to still be cold. You willneed to come prepared for a full winter blast which could see temperatures dropbelow zero Celsius.

Grounds: Grounds are likely to be soft and may still be recovering from the winterrains. Expect the worse! Multi-studded boots and blades will generally not work onthese grounds. Medium or long length studs are best.

Game protocol: Most schools in New Zealand have their own haka and it iscommon practice for the host school to perform the haka for overseas visitingteams. This is meant as a challenge and it is up to the visiting team to accept it as
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they wish. Generally, the team facing the challenge will line up on their own 10mline and front up. This is seen as the most respectful. Three cheers are performedat the end of the match and players shake hands with the opposition.

Mouthguards: Mouthguards are compulsory at all levels of rugby in New Zealand.The ref will inspect that you have a mouthguard at the start of the game.

Rugby Rules: Crutch binding in the scrums and lifting in the lineout is permitted inNew Zealand age group rugby.

After match Arrangements: It is customary in New Zealand rugby to have an after-match function for special visiting teams. It is a tradition we are keen to maintain.The after match is generally held at the hosts clubrooms or school. Speeches aremade by the MC and respective captains. Often the visiting coach or manager isalso invited to speak. There is always an exchange of gifts. This can take the formof a plaque/pendant, club or school ties, players jersey, touring booklet, pins/badges, beanies or something else that has been prepared. Food is then served.

Ice: Ice for sideline treatment of injuries is available from nearly all service stationsand supermarkets. It is recommended that teams bring an insulated container forstoring ice at matches.

First Aid: It is not compulsory to have a first aid officer at every game as it is inAustralia. Initial first aid is generally administered by coaching and/or managementstaff. Emergency services are available for more serious injuries. The emergencynumber in New Zealand is 111. There are after-hours medical services available inall main centres. Total Rugby will assist with coordinating medical servicesincluding physiotherapy. It is expected that tour groups will have their own travelinsurance to cover medical expenses. Operators of tourist services have their own

policies regarding health and safety and issues arising should be managed directlywith them.

The Christchurch 24 Hour Surgery is located at 931 Colombo Street(corner Colombo Street & Bealey Avenue), Phone 03 365 7777Dunedin Urgent Doctors is open 8am to 10pm daily at 95 Hanover Street,Dunedin.Phone (03 479 2900)Queenstown Medical Centre is located at 9 Isle Street, Queenstown. Open7 days.Phone (03 441 0500)

Equipment: Total Rugby has a number of training balls available. Please make anearly request for other specific equipment if required as it is possible to source arange of gear.

Laundry: A full laundry service is provided at Adams House Hostel. We dorecommend that everyone brings at least one towel with them.


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Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included daily throughout your itinerary.Breakfasts will all be at your accommodation and are continental (typically cereal,toast and spreads, tea/coffee), lunches are packed and are provided at youraccommodation to be collected each day as you leave breakfast, dinners are twocourse (main course and dessert) or buffet style.

Security/valuables: This is your own responsibility. Valuables have been stolenbefore. Please never assume that it will be okay to leave valuables unattended orgear rooms unlocked. Every attempt will be made to assist you with your ownsecurity.

Itinerary Times: All the times shown on this itinerary have been booked andconfirmed with the accommodation providers and activity operators. For meal timechanges please liaise directly with the hotel. If you wish to change timings for anyactivities or find you are running behind schedule please contact Total Rugby sothat we can inform the operator

Vouchers: On your arrival your tour leader will be given a voucher bookletcontaining the vouchers you will be required to hand over to our operators for thevarious activities included in your tour.

Liaison: Total Rugby staff will be available 24 hours. Please use the cell phonenumbers on this page. Our staff will not always be with you during your activitiesbut we will check in with you each day, either in the evening to discuss the daysevents and go over the next day, or in the morning.

Luggage: Due to coach luggage capacity it is requested that each person is limitedto one suitcaseand one carry-on bag. If your luggage is going to exceed this please advise Total

Rugby prior to your arrival.

Rugby Boots: New Zealand has very strict biosecurity regulations, during your flightplease complete the Passenger Arrival Card supplied by the airline with care andensure rugby boots are clean prior to your departure.

Emergency and Risk Management: Total Rugby have an Emergency ManagementPlan that you will have a copy of. Staff will take you through this and ask for a signoff.

Insurance: You are expected to have your own insurance to cover the cost ofserious injury or other misfortunes. Please see Terms and Conditions on Total Rugby

Invoice.

Mobile Phone:Total Rugby will provide you with a complimentary mobile phone witha NZ sim card and calling credit while you are in NZ. This will enable you to call ournumbers for no cost and also ensure you can call the NZ emergency number.


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FRIDAY 23 SEPTEMBERSYDNEY / CHRISTCHURCH

1435Arrive Christchurch NZ844

On clearing customs and immigration formalities you will be met andwelcomed by Total Rugby staff who will assist with your coach transfer toyour accommodation.

Check in to Adams House Boarding Hostel where accommodation isconfirmed for 2 nights. Accommodation is multi share dormitory style withshared bathrooms.

Accommodation: Adams House Boarding Hostel70 Harakeke StreetChristchurchPhone 03 348 3307

Adams House is the boarding facility for Christchurch Boys High School. Itwas completely rebuilt in 2001 and is now one of the most modern andeffective boarding establishments in the country.

1830Dinner at your accommodation

SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBERCHRISTCHURCH

0730 Breakfast at your accommodation. Please pick up your packed lunches atbreakfast.

1015A short walk to Bob Deans Fields at North Hagley Park (opposite intersectionof Deans Avenue and Kilmarnock Street), venue for your first tour matches

1130MATCH 1 Vs CBHS U14A and B (will include some U15

lower grade players)CBHS is one of the leading rugby schools in New Zealand.This school has produced the second highest number of AllBlacks (46) from any school in New Zealand. From the 2011RWC winning team there were 5 CBHS old boys. In the 2015side there are also 5 CBHS Old Boys.

The matches will be followed by an after match function, supporters andfamily are invited to attend. Note: Please bring a tracksuit to wear after the


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game as players will move straight to the HSOB clubrooms after the gamefor the aftermatch. Walk back to Adams House at the conclusion of theaftermatch

1540Late afternoon depart your accommodation by Ko Tanes Red Bus coach for

this evenings cultural experience and hangi dinner. As parts of this eveningsexperience is outdoors please dress warmly. Coach transfer back to AdamsHouse at the end of the evening

KO TANEWelcome to Ko Tane Living Maori Village at Willowbank WildlifeReserve , Christchurch, where maori culture and conservationmeet to give a unique glimpse into the way of life of the SouthIsland Ngai Tahu Maori people before the arrival of theEuropeans. Experience the thrill of the wero, the traditionalchallenge to visitors, as you are brought into the sacred precinctTane, Maori God of the Forests. Hear the haunting traditional

call, the Karanga, performed by a wahine (woman) as thepowhiri (ritual of arrival) begins, allowing you to enter ourhidden enclave. Listen to a tane (male) explain the customs ofthe Ngai Tahu tribe as you visit the Living Village and witness anancient way of life where Maori struggled to survive in the harshconditions of the most southerly of the Polynesian PacificIslands.Learn about the coming of the Pakeha (fair-skinnedones), the changes Maori were forced to make from theirtraditional way of life and how the culture has grown andadapted as a result. Join in the laughter as you take part in a

performance of the haka (men) or the poi dance (women), andbe entertained by the songs and games performed by the kapa haka (Maori

cultural performance) group. Take a guided New Zealand naturetour and get close to kiwi, kea and other native species housed in sensitively

purpose-built environments. Enjoy a traditional hangi dinner included in theevenings activities.Group leader to present voucher

SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBERCHRISTCHURCH/DUNEDIN

PLEASE NOTE DAYLIGHT SAVING STARTS THIS MORNING AT2AM. PLEASE PUT YOUR CLOCKS FORWARD ONE HOUR

0730This morning you will be joined for breakfast by a celebrity New Zealandrugby player. Learn about the life of a professional rugby player overbreakfast, there will be an opportunity for photographs and autographs.Packed lunches will be available to collect after breakfast.


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Luke WhitelockLuke is the third of the Whitelock brothers to pull on the All Black

jersey. He has also played in the NZ Under 20s twice winning theJunior World Championship in 2010 and 2011. He captained theside in 2011. He debuted for the Crusaders in 2012 and gained 50caps over the next three years. In 2016 he moved to theHighlanders where he earned 12 caps this season. He is currentlyplaying for Canterbury in the Mitre 10 NPC competition where heis the captain. Luke joined brother Sam in the All Blacks squad totour the Northern Hemisphere in 2013

Career notes:New Zealand Under 20 (2010) 9 capsNew Zealand Schools (2008)New Zealand Under 17 squad (2008, 2007)Canterbury 50 caps

Crusaders 50 capsHighlanders 12 capsAll Blacks 1 cap

Dominic BirdDominic played his third season for the Crusaders in 2015 andthen transferred to the Chiefs for the Super Rugby season in2016.He is one of the tallest men in rugby in New Zealand and grewup in the farming community of Waipukurau in the HawkesBay, but he moved to Christchurch at the end of 2009 tofurther his rugby career. He also began studying at Lincoln

University where he has completed an EnvironmentalManagement and Planning degree.He made his debut for Canterbury in 2011 and although hereceived just one cap that year, by 2012 he was attracting attention for hislineout skills and tough presence on the field. He appeared in every matchfor Canterbury that year and shone as one of the best lineout technicians inthe competition.He made his Crusaders debut in 2013 when he stood in for Luke Romano. Hewas hugely impressive and earned man of the match in his first game. Injuryrobbed much of 2013 campaign from him, but the limited game time he hadwas enough to convince the All Blacks selectors to include him in the 2013end of year tour.

Dominic was also a member of the 2011 New Zealand Under 20 team thatcompeted in the IRB Junior World Championship in Italy.Career notes:Canterbury 36 capsCrusaders 31 capsChiefs 10 capsNew Zealand Under 20 (2011) 5 capsAll Blacks 2 caps


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0900Check out of Adams House and depart by coach.

Your Pacific Tourways coach driver to take you south is Geoff Rowe (mobile+64 21 0368 574). Geoff will be your driver through to 29 September.

0930INTERNATIONAL ANTARCTIC CENTREEstablished in 1992, the Antarctic Attraction is located in the heart of aworking Antarctic campus at Christchurch International Airport. It is fromhere that many Antarctic missions are organized. With this in mind, theAntarctic Attraction is designed to bring a powerful and memorableexperience of Antarctica to visitors in a fun, exciting and informative way.Included in your admission is a ride on the Hagglund all terrain vehicle. Sitback, hold on and experience travelling across rough terrain in thisunique and exciting machine This ride is the only one of its type in theworld!! Watch the Little Blue Penguins be hand fed and experience the 4DMovie.Group leader to present voucher

Then head south through the Canterbury Plains, your journey south will takeyou through the rural township of Ashburton. Then to Timaru where a stop issuggested. Continue on State Highway 1 through Oamaru, arrive inDunedin late afternoon.


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Check in to Otago Boys High School boarding hostel where accommodationhas been confirmed for two nights. Accommodation is multi share dormitorystyle with shared bathrooms. Please note all linen is supplied but beds arenot made up.

Accommodation: OTAGO BOYS HIGH SCHOOL HOSTEL25 Melrose StreetKaikorai, DunedinPhone: 03 377 5109

School House is situated in the quiet residential suburb of Roslyn, Dunedin.Built on this site in 1974 it is a complex consisting of four freestandingdormitories, a recreation wing, prep rooms and a dining room, kitchen,laundry and administration block

1800Dinner at the hostel.

MONDAY 26 SEPTEMBERDUNEDIN

0730 Breakfast at your accommodation. Please pick up your packed lunches atbreakfast

0945 Depart the hostel by coach for Kettle Park (Victoria Road, St Kilda), venuefor your second tour matches

1100MATCH 2 Vs Kings High School (Combination of U14b and U15bgrade players)


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Rugby has been part of Kings High School since its inception in 1936. TheKings philosophy is about discipline, playing hard but playing fair. This policyhas been the catalyst for producing 13 All Blacks and numerous Otago

players along with others who have represented other countries during thepast 79 years.

The matches will be followed by an after match function, supporters andfamily are invited to attend

1400Depart Kings High School by coach for Cadbury World Experience - a tourhighlight for chocolate lovers!!

1430 CADBURY WORLD EXPERIENCEA sensation in sight, smell and sound, CadburyWorld is located at the Cadbury Factory site. heCadbury World Experience is a one-hour, fullyguided tour and includes: explanation of thechocolate making process, chocolate samples,liquid chocolate tasting, sensory experience,tempering demonstration and the uniquechocolate fall. Please note the tour does notenter any of the manufacturing areas of thefactory.

Group leader to present voucher (27 of group are confirmed for 2:30pm tour

and the remaining 17 at 2:45pm)

Return to the hostel by coach at the conclusion of the tour.

1800Dinner this evening at the hostel

TUESDAY 27 SEPTEMBERDUNEDIN/QUEENSTOWN

0800 Breakfast at your accommodation. Please pick up your packed lunches atbreakfast. Then check out

0930This morning enjoy the scenic drive from Dunedin to Queenstown

Check into the Aspen Hotel where accommodation has been confirmed foryour final four nights. Please note check in time is 2pm

Accommodation: ASPEN HOTEL139 Fernhill RoadQueenstownPhone: 03 441 0097


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1545Depart by coach from your hotel for short ride by coach to the base of theQueenstown Gondola..then its time to head up the mountain....return coachto your hotel after dinner

1600SKYLINE GONDOLA, LUGE AND BUFFET DINNERReputed to be the steepest lift in the Southern Hemisphere, the gondolacarries visitors high above Queenstown to the Skyline complex located onBob's PeakNumerous observation decks around the complex offer breathtaking views ofCoronet Peak & The Remarkables, over Queenstown and across LakeWakatipu to Cecil and Walter Peaks. Truly magnificent and awe-inspiring.Once you are at the top its time to hit the luge track - the scenery's a blur!Hurtle down a winding downhill track through the trees. Race through thebends, or pull in for a breather and enjoy the panorama. Burn it up on theadvanced track or cruise sedately down the scenic track. Then hop on thechairlift and do it all again. Skyline Luge - it's 800 metres of fast-pacedfreedom.Once is never enough!

Package includes gondola up and down the mountain, 2 luge rides per personand buffet dinner at the Skyline Restaurant where you will dine with amagnificent view over Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu. Dinner is confirmedfor 6:00pm.Group leader to present voucher

WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBERQUEENSTOWN

0730 Breakfast at your accommodation. Please pick up your packed lunches at

breakfast

0845This morning coach transfer to Skylines gondola base and ride the gondolato the Ziptrek Ecotours base. PLEASE NOTE THE GONDOLA COMMENCESOPERATION AT 0900Group leader to present voucher.


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0920ZIP TREK ECOTOURS - MOA 4 LINE TOURZiptrek is a must-do, multi award-winning adventure ecotourism businessrenowned for delivering awareness and appreciation of the naturalenvironment along with a good dose of ziplining adventure. Check-in andmeet their guides at the "Ziptrek Guest Services Tree", 100 metres to theleft of the Skyline Gondola upper terminal. You will all be fitted with aclimbing harness and helmet. The ziplines are gravity fed, so no need toworry about controlling your own speed. Two tour guides willaccompany you on your tour, one guide to connect (launch platform) andone guide to disconnect (landing platform) each and every guest. The Moacomprises four ziplines starting and finishing at the top of the Skylinegondola. Moa is designed to start low and slow and gradually build yourconfidence as it gets progressively longer, higher and faster. You will be splitinto 4 groups, with groups going off shortly after each other.Group leader to present voucher. You will depart in groups of 11 at thefollowing times: 9:20, 9:40, 10:00 and 10:20. Last group will finish at 12:20

The rest of today is at your leisure to enjoy central Queenstown. Please

make arrangements directly with your coach driver for a transfer back to thehotel if you require this.

1830Dinner at the hotel

THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBERQUEENSTOWN

0700 Breakfast at your accommodation. Please pick up your packed lunch atbreakfast.

0800 Depart by coach for Mt Aspiring College, Wanaka (Plantation Road) for thefirst of todays final tour matches

1000 Match 3b Vs Mt Aspiring College U14 (with some U13 and U15 tomake up numbers)

Mt Aspiring College has a proud rugby tradition. Until recently this schoolplayed as a combination side in the regional competition. Now they play in aCentral Otago competition and have done well in recent times.


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The matches will be followed by an after match function, supportersand family are invited to attend

1200 Depart Wanaka for Cromwell. The match will be played atAnderson Park, off Berry Road

1430 Match 3a Vs Cromwell Rugby U15 (some players will be U14)

Cromwell is in Central Otago and nearby is the point furthest fromthe sea anywhere in NZ (119 kilometres). Rugby is a staple part ofthe community scene and they welcome visitors, especially fellow rugby

people.

The matches will be followed by an after match function, supporters andfamily are invited to attend

1630 Depart Cromwell by coach for Queenstown


FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBERQUEENSTOWN

0700 Breakfast at your accommodation. Please pick up your packed lunch atbreakfast.

Today is for the adrenalin junkies when you join Queenstown Combos for anaction packed day.

0800Queenstown Combos will pick you up from the hotel for this mornings heli-rafting.

CHALLENGE RAFTING - SHOTOVER TRIO

Race down the Shotover River canyons with Shotover Jet, take a scenic

helicopter flight over Skippers Canyon & go whitewater rafting down theShotover River. Please note everyone who is doing the rafting must be ableto swim and must be 13 years or older.

Shotover Jet is confirmed for following times: 12:15pm check in 4 adults and12 players, 12:30pm check in 2 adults and 12 players, 12:45pm check in 2adults and 12 players



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SATURDAY 01 OCTOBERQUEENSTOWN/SYDNEY

0800 Breakfast at your accommodation. Please pick up your packed lunches atbreakfast

1000 Check out of your accommodation. You will be able to store your luggage atthe hotel. Free morning

1300 Coach departs the Aspen Hotel for Queenstown Airport. Your airport transferwill be provided by a Queenstown based Pacific Tourways driver.

1615Depart on flight NZ839

Your Tour Arrangements TerminateWe wish you a safe journey home

Dural Junior Rugby Tour 2016 Full Itinerary

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