{"id":103274,"date":"2025-08-29T01:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103274\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:40:09","slug":"alps-2-ocean-a-scenic-new-zealand-cycling-adventure-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/103274\/","title":{"rendered":"Alps 2 Ocean: A scenic New Zealand cycling adventure | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting there: Virgin Australia flies direct from Sydney and Melbourne to Queenstown. From there, the two Alps2Ocean starting points are 3.5 hours by transfer\/intercity coach.<\/p>\n<p>Cycling there:\u00a0 Trail Journeys offers six-day A2O packages, from Aoraki to Oamaru, from $NZ2395 ($2175) including bike rental, accommodation and helicopter transfers. E-bike upgrade is $NZ360, airport transfers $NZ235 and pre-ride Aoraki accommodation $NZ430 per person. Five-day trips from Tekapo start from $NZ1765.<\/p>\n<p>Explore more: <a rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trailjourneys.co.nz\/\">trailjourneys.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getting there: Virgin Australia flies direct from Sydney and Melbourne to Queenstown. From there, the two Alps2Ocean starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-103274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}