We fly to Dunedin this coming Saturday (Sunday for those of you already in the southern hemisphere) and we fly from San Francisco through Auckland. We have a 9.5 hour layover in Auckland... I'm hoping we can get some sleep during that time!
My question is this: we're taking all of our things over as extra baggage rather than shipping. Will we be going through customs in Auckland, or when we reach our final destination (Dunedin)? And, will they unload our bags in Auckland to do customs/searching on them, and then load them onto our plane for Dunedin? Also, if this is the case, will we have to pay the extra baggage fees again?
Or do they wait until our final destination to go through customs?
Any help is (as usual) much appreciated!