Excited bride: regarding your questions, let me try to answer them:
1) Do you all have any idea how I can get from Melbourne to Tasmania? Which airlines is better? BA or QF(Qantas)? Shd i take a flight from SIN-MEL-TAS thro' a connecting flight or do I take some other form of transportation?
>>> Getting from Melb to Tas --> there are 2 ways, air and sea. By air, take domestic flight operated either by QF or Virgin. The air tickets are cheap, about $90 one-way. Flight time is about 1hr 15mins. Sometimes there are offers at $1 per ticket, but you got to be quick. Sign up for their email newsletters for advance notice.
>>> By sea is an overnight cruise, but the water is very very choppy, and most people end up feeling nauseous. Not a very good start to a holiday eh? Cruise is expensive ... offer is $200+
>>>During the summer months, there's also an express cruise service by catamerang (called the Black Cat or something). Expensive and the ride is very choppy (coz the Bass Straits dividing Melbourne and Tas is subjected to ocean currents & waves).
>>>During the Singapore school holidays, SQ also has chartered flights from SIN-TAS. The air ticket is expensive and the flight is FULL of packaged tour travellers. For this reason, you may also find it hard to get just an air ticket without the package holiday coz the travel agents would have pre-booked the seats for their package tours.
>>>BA does not operate any domestic flights within Aust. Only Qantas and Virgin. (Kendall has folded)
>>>International flight wise, Emirates, Malaysian Airlines and BA all provide good service. The SIN-MEL Qantas aeroplanes are all quite old (no personal TV screen). SQ is nice, but expensive
2) Shd I try to wait till Natas fair is here before booking a flight & accomodation cos I'm thinking of F&E there? Will it be too late cos I intend to go on the last week of mar (28 mar onwards) or 1st wk of April.
>>>The NATAS fair doesn't really have very much on Tas, at most some package tours. Nothing is too late, but March is only a short break (1 week holiday), so the bookings for Tas will prob be for June school hols only.
Pooh & Vee Kee: sent you email already. Pls check.