Some hotels were booked with SMALL single beds. Didn't expect view rooms, but tiny beds are not acceptable when one queen is a couple of $$ more or the same. Flight from Lax to SYD then on to AUK made no sense since we lost a day in Aukland and flew past Aukland 2 1/2 hours waited 2 1/2 hours and flew back to Aukland the first day. Several direct flights to AUK boarded in Lax about the time we left LAX. I had wanted to book my own airfare for this reason, as well as the price difference, but was told that was not possible. I was informed this is what we got for booking a discount trip. After booking Business Class for this trip, it cost the same as many other land tours. At $23K plus, hardly a discount trip. We have booked Africa in May 2019. We hope our Africa trip is not as discounted as this trip was. Tour director could have been much more informative on our daily travels.