Northern Territorians, here’s how you can make the most of your annual leave.
Being home to the closest Australian city to Asia and constantly getting cheap flights to Bali and Singapore, we want you to take advantage of that as much as you can.
We’ve put the puzzle together and fit 20 days of annual leave as neatly as we could around public holidays to work out how you can get a huge 52 days of leave.
In those 52 days off, here are all the adventures you can take:
- 1-day New Year’s staycation (or 3-day's trip to Kakadu if you start on 30 December)
- 3-day hop and skip up to Bali in late January getaway
- 16-day trip across the US from April to May
- 17-day cruise around the South Pacific islands
- 3-day winter break to Tropical North Queensland
- 3-day trip to Uluru and Kata Tjuta in August
- 9-days December island hopping adventure in Thailand
Take off the following days in italics as annual leave:
January:
Monday 1 January (Public holiday - New Year’s Day)
Total run: 1 days / 0 annual leave days (push this to a three day weekend by starting you trip on Saturday 30 December)
Friday 26 January (Public holiday - Australia Day)
Saturday 27 January
Sunday 28 January
Total run: 3 days / 0 annual leave days
March & April:
Saturday 24 March
Sunday 25 March
Monday 26 March
Tuesday 27 March
Wednesday 28 March
Thursday 29 March
Friday 30 March (Public holiday - Good Friday)
Saturday 31 March
Sunday 1 April
Monday 2 April (Public holiday - Easter Monday)
Tuesday 3 April
Wednesday 4 April
Thursday 5 April
Friday 6 April
Saturday 7 April
Sunday 8 April
Total run: 16 days / 8 annual leave days
April & May:
Saturday 21 May
Sunday 22 May
Monday 23 May
Tuesday 24 May
Wednesday 25 May (Public holiday - Anzac Day)
Thursday 26 April
Friday 27 April
Saturday 28 April
Sunday 29 April
Monday 30 April
Tuesday 1 May
Wednesday 2 May
Thursday 3 May
Friday 4 May
Saturday 5 April
Sunday 6 April
Monday 7 April (Public holiday - May Day)
Total run: 17 days / 9 annual leave days
June:
Saturday 9 June
Sunday 10 June
Monday 11 June (Public holiday - Queen's birthday)
Total run: 3 days / 0 annual leave days
August
Saturday 4 August
Sunday 5 August
Monday 6 August (Public holiday - Picnic Day)
Total run: 3 days / 0 annual leave days
December:
Saturday 22 December
Sunday 23 December
Monday 24 December (Christmas Eve public holiday - 7pm-midnight shifts only)
Tuesday 25 December (Public holiday - Christmas Day)
Wednesday 26 December (Public holiday - Boxing Day)
Thursday 27 December
Friday 28 December
Saturday 29 December
Sunday 30 December
Total run: 9 days / 3 annual leave days
Keep an eye on our Boxing Day flight sales to get those holidays booked.
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