Mexican Wave - Can You Dig It?

It appears you certainly can dig it!

On Wednesday the Mexican Wave brought a swell of seats to every region of the country every hour, giving deal loving kiwis throughout NZ the opportunity to spontaneously grabaseat. It was the first time we have run a promotion like this and it was a huge success.

We did however receive some feedback, that it is great to have new seats on sale every hour if you sit in front of a computer all day, but it is a bit hard to check grabaseat every hour if you work on a farm! So, we are kicking around the idea of a rural promotion for our hardworking farmers. This one's for you JENNI.

Next week grabaseat is getting its groove on (if you know what I mean), so make sure you check it out.

NZ takes a leap for leap day

Firstly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to everyone who was born on Feb 29. Celebrate like it only happens every 4 years.

It appears Kiwis like to take the leap, or maybe they just like leap day deals, or maybe, just maybe Kiwis like $29 fares. Today's grabaseat fares sold out super fast.

Get Queenstown on the World Monopoly Board

Visit grabaseat today and tomorrow to vote for Queenstown to be included on the World Monopoly board. If it makes it, grabaseat will give NZ ludicrous fares to Queenstown.

While you are there nominate Auckland as a wildcard city.

The Monopoly site is a bit tricky to use, so here is a bit of a breakdown.

To vote: register, login, locate Queenstown on the map, add to my cities, vote and enter the code

To nominate: (after logging in), enter Auckland in nominate your own city, nominate and enter the code

What's Up

Wow, last week was off the hook. Who would have thought mayors could be so sexy. The seats on offer last Friday went like hot cakes, particluarly the $1 fares between Invercargill and Christchurch. Well done to all those who managed to snaffle a ludicrously low fare.

This week kicked off with the grabaseat team flying to New Plymouth to get the low down on the destination ... watch this space, it will be well worth it.

Also, keep an eye on grabaseat today and tomorrow for an opportunity to score a deal to a much favoured Kiwi destination.

Of course this week we also celebrate a very special, once every 4 years day, the 29th of Feb.

And the winner is....

Mayor Tim Shadbolt of Invercargill !


The finally standings:

• Tim Shadbolt - Invercargill 32%
• Jono Naylor - Palmerston North 30%
• Peter Chin - Dunedin 22%
• Bob Simcock - Hamilton 16%

So Hamilton, Dunedin and Palmerston North are all up for great fares today but Invercargill you get the $1 fare to Christchurch !

The fares will be appearing at random times during today (Hamilton is up first) so keep an eye out on grabaseat !

Lowest fares for city with the hottest Mayor

Today we are running Mayor Idol, a vote off between the Mayors of Dunedin, Palmerston North, Invercargill & Hamilton.

The town with the hottest Mayor gets the cheapest grabaseat fares on Friday (22/02/08) !

• Hottest Mayor's town gets $1 one way fare
• 2nd placed Mayor's town gets $20 one way fare
• 3rd placed Mayor's town gets $30 one way fare
• 4th placed Mayor's town gets $40 one way fare

So get voting now and as always check out http://www.grabaseat.co.nz for some ludicrous fares.

Update: Mayor Tim Shadbolt belives he is without a doubt the hottest Mayor... wonder if the polls will prove him right?

The prices are up to you

Check out grabaseat tomorrow and vote on the prices for seats from Hamilton, Palmerston North, Dunedin & Invercargill, for sale on Friday.