8:40am Sunday 2nd August 2009
THEY are prepared to camp out for six days and nights – to get a flight Down Under for a tenner.
Armed only with a tarpaulin and waterproofs, crazy Chloe Lambert and her boyfriend Deiniol Davies, pictured, have set up camp outside a Southampton shop in the hope of bagging the cheap flights courtesy of STA Travel.
The city’s branch of the travel agents is one of eight around the country dishing out 145 tickets to Australia for £10 on Wednesday on a first-come first-served basis – and Chloe and Deiniol have set their sights on the flights.
Bank project worker Chloe, 22, said: “We wanted to go travelling to Australia but money is tight.
“We are both quite compulsive so when we saw this promotion we just thought ‘let’s go for it’.
“We’re relying on friends and family to bring us food parcels.”
Deiniol, 27, added: “Some people have given us some weird looks but most people have been very friendly.”
The Bournemouth pair, who are thought to be the first people in the country to start queuing for the tickets, will save about £500 each on the normal ticket price by camping out.
They hope to fly to Sydney in November if they are successful and spend two years in Oz.
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