SAFFA parents fly to New Zealand l First long haul flight l Parent Visa l South African YouTubers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ย. 2023
- EEEEEEEKKKK! We've been waiting over a year for this :) Please let us know if you have any questions for my parents, we might do a Q&A ;)
Here are some resources for you:
Immigration website: www.immigration.govt.nz/
Online traveller declaration: www.travellerdeclaration.govt...
What can I take on the plane: www.aviation.govt.nz/passenge...
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This was so lovely to watch. Hope your parents are having a great time in New Zealand!
Thanks so much for watching 😊 they’re really enjoying NZ 😊
Nice video! I'm impressed at your parents' vlogging skills :)
😅😅right!! I’ve been telling them to start a channel for ages 😅
Thanks for the very good video, enjoy your parents visit. GOD BLESS.
Thanks so much for watching 😊
I am "tjanking" my eyes out. Your video brought back such lovely memories of my in-laws visiting us. Thanks for sharing, and enjoy your whānau time together.
Awww 🥺🥺 I’m sure we’re going to feel the same looking back at our videos 😢
Chantal I love that your parents vlogged their trip 💕 how special to have them visit!
Hey u2, great to see the reunion, how lovely that is all the Durbanites together in NZ. Enjoy every moment with them, time flies so quickly. Greetings here from Thailand.
Thanks Llewellyn! Good to hear from you 😊 it’s really cool to have them here, and it’s almost been 3 weeks already, going by way too quickly!
@@BeingBedingfield love the way you guys are enjoying the time together, always a memorable time with family. A request: -Tell your parents to listen to Alan Jackson - The Older I Get. They will enjoy this.
@@llewellynlombard7428cool, we’ll tell them 😊
i love how hard nz visa process is..shows how good their firewall is.
😅definitely not an easy or quick process 🙈😅
That’s amazing that they can visit you. I got emotional watching the goodbyes in Durban. Enjoy the visit. We haven’t seen our parents in 5 years. Saffas living in China, hoping to move to NZ in the future. Thanks for sharing your journey.
Aww, those two are my mom’s sisters 😅 was so cute to see their goodbyes in Durban 😅 hope you get to see your parents soon as well 💛
Ag, oulik! I was in NZ just 2 months ago, and it felt like Deja Vu watching your video and seeing all the airport scenes. Good work, parents, for filming!
Hope you had a great time in NZ! So proud of them for filming on their trip 😅
Oh that is so exciting ! Your parents are adorable. Welkom to Nieuwe Zeeland ❤
Thanks so much ❤️
So Awesome! Enjoy the summer holidays with family.
Aw, thanks so much ❤️
Hope your folks enjoy their visit to NZ!
Thanks so much 😊
So very happy for you and your parents. I hope you all have the loveliest time together. Looking forward to seeing your upcoming videos. All the best to everyone!!
Aw, thanks so much! Really excited to share our next video 😅
Aaah this is was so lovely to watch .. the ‘ballies’ did a great job of videoing! Well done! Enjoy your special time together! 💕
Lol, thanks so much Helen 😊
Chantelle and Craig this is such a beautiful vlog. I’m recovering from surgery and this just made me cry feeling just happy for as a family. Enjoy every moment all of you . Anneke here in Australia had changed name profile name to SiphaG Baie Dankie say goeie dag an jou ouers🇿🇦🇿🇦
Aww, thanks so much for watching! We hope you’re recovering fast from your surgery 💕
So very very nice to see you guys reunited with Chantals parents. Love the updates at Insta as well. ❤❤
Thanks so much, dear friends ❤ one day we’ll be reunited with you too 🤗
@@BeingBedingfield For sure; keep the first or second week of february 2025 available for us!
Love the videos. So excited for Dot and Pim. One good thing about our kids immigrating is the opportunity to travel 😀
Yes, and we can’t wait for you guys to come too ❤
how lovely, and now for a wonderful summer with family.
Thank you, hopefully the weather stays as beautiful as it is now ☀️
Naw Chantz. Thats so nice that your parents made the trip to Auckland.
Hopefully the weather is not too bad in NZ, while they're there.
Look at those beautiful modern airports in South Africa, and then you get to Auckland airport and it's back to 1966.
Yeah, it’s awesome 😅 their first week wasn’t great weather, but it’s ok, they were recovering from jet lag. It’s been so nice the last week ☀️
Luckily Auckland Airport is undergoing lots of upgrades 🤗
Fantastic news guys! Two years and we will be doing the same. I’ll come back to this then 😀
🤗🤗🤗awesome!! Time flies 😅
Yeeey, we are so happy for you guys.💖 You finally have your parents in NZ. 👍Amazing👏. Lovely video. Enjoy every moments. Lots of love to all. 💖
Thanks Renata 💕💕
So wholesome! I love how they show their travel 🤗 Must be so exciting to show them your new home ❤
We are beyond excited to show them our new home and surroundings 🤗 and they’re absolutely mind blown with this beautiful country 😅
@@BeingBedingfield I am not surprised at all, I told you right from the very start it is such a different and safe country. Returning to New Zealand is an absolute dream come true. The thought of it already makes me emotional.
@@thamarvandeelen6261can’t wait to meet up with you guys once again 🤗
I'm so happy for you, a year feels so long
Thanks so much 😊
Nice guys - enjoy your time together
Thanks 😊
aww welcome to Aotearoa have fun and chillax
Thanks 😊
Awesome!! 😊
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What an awesome blessing to have your parent's come and visit you both here in our country 🌼🌷⚘️.
I hope they enjoy their time here ❤
Thanks, it’s amazing having them here. They’re loving NZ so far 😊
As an Aussie I was working on a project and living in Merensee when the Covid 19 hit RSA. I had to get a South African mate drive me down to Durban because Richards Bay airport had been closed down. It was really eerie when I got to King Shaka such a huge new terminal building with only one check in counter operating it was like being in a ghost town. The only flight to Joburg I could get on was with the budget carrier Mango when I finally got to Joburg it was the complete opposite of Shaka absolute bedlam with everyone trying to get out of South Africa and to make it worse all of the airline lounges were closed. We were on the last Qantas flight from Joburg to Sydney before Australia shut down all international flights into the country. Great to see things are back to normal and that your parents were able to get safely to NZ. I know how they must have felt flying to Sydney in economy especially being their first long haul flight at least I got to fly in buisness class and I a got pretty used to doing long haul flights - I flew that Joburg/Syd leg at least 12 times over a 20 year period. I,m retired now and we prefer to spend our time travelling Australia with our caravan rather than flying around the world. Enjoy your time together in NZ....
Awesome guys, happy you got to catch up.
Hopefully we'll get to meet up a few times before we're off again!
Can’t believe you guys are leaving 😭😭😭
@@BeingBedingfield I know… it happened so quickly. But you’ll have a place to stay when you visit.
Lol the parents have become TH-cam vloggers...very nice😅😅❤
😂😂😂I’m so proud of them 😅
I knew it! I had an inkling that your home language is Afrikaans!! Ja, ek is ook half boer, so daarsy. :) Yeah, this is the same flights that my in-laws took when they visited NZ in April this year, much better for them indeed. And well done for coaching your folks on taking video, and I'm sure you gave them strict instructions NOT to film in portrait mode. hahahaha.
Ag, but it is going to be awesome having the parentals around for 3 or so months. Looking forward to the adventures showing them around.
Haha, yeah, home language is Afrikaans 😅
Hope your in laws had a great time in NZ?
Lol, I kept sending them messages as they connected to wifi in the airports to remind them to take video 😂
@@BeingBedingfield ahh they were real superstars :)
Enjoy yr time with yr parents. You’ve got lotsa catching up & I trust they bought u & Craig some South African goodies. My grand nieces partner is Sth African. Live in Brissy & named their 2nd dtr Knysna. Enjoy, I’d better get back to work. Cheers
Thanks so much for watching! Aww, Knysna…that’s a great name!
Enjoy them!
Thank you 😁😁
Awsome guys. Enjoy julle. We almost NZ.
🤗🤗you must be so excited!
I absolutely loved the parents vlog ❤❤can we please have a parents takeover video😊❤
😂😂what a great idea!
For a lot of New Zealanders Sydney to Auckland is a treated as a domestic flight.
Can’t wait till we also see it that way! Unfortunately we have to get visas to go to Australia 😢
When we go back to the UK its off one 12 hr flight straight onto another for 12hrs!
So hectic 😮
Congrats to the Boks, so sad for us kiwis to get sooo close :-). You need to get to the South Island!
Thanks 😊 we really felt for all the AB supporters around us 😢 but the team did so well with just 14 players 💪
We can’t wait to get to the South Island 🤗
@@BeingBedingfield ♥
You guys are so lucky they came to visit! My in laws came last year December after 3 years in NZ and my parents probably only in 2025, saving is key!
Some questions for you/them:
1. How was the Qantas 12 hour flight? Did they manage alright?
2. Getting into Sydney and then to their next boarding gate, was that ok? How long was their layover? I did that Qantas flight in 2016 when I first visited NZ and thought it was manageable but going through the security in Sydney was a bit stressful :P The staff on Qantas are amazing though.
3. Have they found NZ cold so far from the 30s in SA?
4. How are they doing with the jet lag? Melatonin tablets has been my trick for long haul to SA and back, we went to see family in March. Cheaper going back :P
4. Tips for other parents coming to visit their kids in NZ?
Hi Carmen, thanks for all those questions, we’re hoping to do a Q&A video soon 😊 we really hope you get to see you parents soon as well 💛
Ek kry eintlik 'n traan vir daai ontmoeting met jul ouers...met dien verstande dat ons(my vrou en ek) hoop om aanstaande jaar ons seun te besoek wat ook in Auckland is.
Ek gaan nog 'n paar vrae vra later?
Julle is welkom om ons ‘n paar vrae te vra 👍😊
Check INZ rules iro talking about visas etc.
It says that you can talk about any rules/share info that are available to the public on their website. So that is the only information that we can talk about. We don’t give immigration advice, simply pointing and referring to the INZ website.
In September my journey to Port Elizabeth took me 40 hours to get there. Miami to London. London to Johannesburg. Johannesburg to PE. Then back to Miami in October 30 hours to get back.
What a journey 😮