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Best Budget Travel Destinations in Oceania

16 city guides Β· 3-day budget travel itineraries

3-day city guides for budget travellers β€” free attractions, cheap eats and low-cost adventures.

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Adelaide

Every major museum free, a 700-hectare park ring you can walk end to end, and Central Market bargain…

Oceania
πŸ‡ΌπŸ‡Έ Samoa

Apia

Snorkel a marine reserve for WST 5, eat oka at the Fugalei Market for WST 8, and ride the wooden bus…

Oceania
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ New Zealand

Auckland

Climb 53 volcanoes for nothing, eat dumplings for NZ$12 and cross the harbour for the price of a cof…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Canberra

Free museums and gardens, $14 laksa on Woolley Street, and ridge-top sunsets that never charge admis…

Oceania
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ New Zealand

Christchurch

Free museums, riverside walks, a $6.50 gondola alternative and Canterbury's cheapest ethnic food cou…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Gold Coast

Volcanic headland walks, Southport's $10 noodle blocks, hinterland swimming holes and skyline lookou…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Melbourne

Free-entry state institutions, market-stall lunches under $10 and a penguin colony that charges noth…

Oceania
πŸ‡«πŸ‡― Fiji

Nadi

Public parks, bus-stand curries, mud pools and WWII gun batteries β€” Fiji's gateway town on a shoestr…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Newcastle

Free national-standard galleries, Β£5 market plates, Ouseburn's no-cost valley and one day ticket tha…

Oceania
πŸ‡΅πŸ‡« French Polynesia

Papeete

Public black-sand beaches, a free cathedral, le truck-style buses at 200 XPF and market lunches unde…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Perth

Free CAT buses, no-cost gardens and gaols, $10 noodle bowls and a coastline that never charges admis…

Oceania
πŸ‡΅πŸ‡¬ Papua New Guinea

Port Moresby

Stilt villages, harbour lookouts and Highlands produce markets on a shoestring, plus the Sogeri plat…

Oceania
πŸ‡»πŸ‡Ί Vanuatu

Port Vila

Market kaikai plates, 150 VT minibuses, free lagoon swims and 200 VT kava shells across three days o…

Oceania
πŸ‡«πŸ‡― Fiji

Suva

Colonial parks, a covered market that never charges entry, roti stalls under FJ$5 and a rainforest p…

Oceania
πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Australia

Sydney

Coastal clifftop walks, ocean baths, $2.30 Sunday Opal fares and the cheap-eats strips locals actual…

Oceania
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ New Zealand

Wellington

Koha-entry museums, Sunday market seconds boxes, night-market plates under $14 and every lookout in …