Looks like around NZ $1000 to both places. www.bali.co.nz has 13 nights in Bali from $1079, including hotel. Another site has Fiji at $990, without hotel.
It’s not easy finding NZ places; all google searches seem to lead to London!
Poke around in travel agents; or look in local rags. Flights seem to be much cheaper from Oz.

Hello

We’re in Malta in a very hot sunny and not especially interesting island. It has beaches but instead of sand they have hard “moon rock” so as to cause pain unto the foot area and make swimming unadvisable.

I have managed to get fairly sunburnt and eat lots of English food which is practically all they have here. The hotel serves Brit school dinner type food to the standard of private schools rather than standard though – i.e slightly better.
Malta is very full of people and increbidly busy. It has interesting buildings if you are the sort of dullard who wishes to look at buildings. There is very little greenery sadly.

We have had a fairly quality trip however to a tiny island with a Blue Lagoon which one could swim and snorkal in.

Nicky please call my mum and dad and tell them to go onto the internet and read this as they will probably be interested.
(I shall be back on Sunday and am driving from Sasha’s house)

tr

All we can fervently hope is that this woman, on arriving in Auckland, finds the friend of a friend wafting a meagre $600 in her face, talking of a suspicious sounding ‘big end’. (A useful ploy, at any time. A ‘big end’ is a bit of the car that starts making thumping sounds when it’s getting old and tired and about to ‘go’ but that it is difficult for anyone to know if they are hearing or imagining; so mentioning it suggests you might, possibly, know what you’re on about. You can, at least, unless he or she is a bone fide mechanic, know the seller won’t know, one way or another.)

what really takes the biscuit is we didn’t get a car from someone a day earlier who slashed the price from $800 to $500 cos she was lieving that night. we decided not to get it and later she affoered $400 but we refused. i mean to say, what? madness. but it was a bit scanky.

julio

It might have been worth swallowing your pride and saying “Well, how about $900, then?” Or even going the full $1000. It’s ‘only’ £30/£60 more. I mean, she was spurning the certainty of an okay deal for an only slightly better possible one … so she would probably have gone for $900. It might even have been a bargaining attempt on her part to extract more from you.
I remember two car incidents, both selling, when similar things have happened to me. One creep, having agreed to pay £1300 for a Volkswagen van, after I picked him up with a friend to drive to his house where we would complete the deal, started mumbling about a ‘noise’ he had heard, his friend corroberated this, and I was beaten down to £1100 – I was desperate as I had a ticket back to Portugal that day. Another time, another van, the guy who was buying, as he counted out his money, ‘discovered’ he was somewhat short of readies.
Again, I had a deadline … he offered his old wreck of a vehicle in part exchange … I accepted the money he had. Even more annoyingly, we bumped into him a couple of years later in Gibraltar, driving our old van, where he invited me into a restaurant for a coffee, which I ended up paying for!!!

Well, M agrees nothing is the best plan – “We never got Malaria, etc, etc …” but I’m not so sure. Maleron would have been good to have to hand, at least. I suppose you can start Doxy again if anything untoward happens. Just remember what that nurse said, and don’t assume it’s a touch of flu or dengue:

“If you experience a high fever of 38C or more, seek prompt medical advice for a blood test for malaria parasites.”