Is Green Travel More Expensive?

There has been a small flurry of blog posts on green travel sites recently about the costs of green travel. It seems that in general you do not pay more to exercise an eco transport decision.

We'd like to point out that Rideshare as a transport option can actually be CHEAPER for both parties engaging - the driver can offset part of their fuel cost and the rider often gets a quality ride at less than a budget bus ticket.

Congratulations to Stefan - our technical master - he's a dad! :)

We'd just like to send a bundle of love and congratulations to our fabulous technical master Stefan and his wife Nicola and congratulate them to their newest member of the family.. welcome little Ben! :) xx It's a special time and we will put a wee break in on the technical development of the site until they have had a decent time to adore their little boy without any worries about anything else.
Merle & Gwilym

..please, tell me what you think :)

Now that Gwilym and I are back on kiwi soil - loving the summer heat - we're also back into the development of ever better ways to use the cooreea system.

Here is where I require your help. If there is anything that you are having trouble with, you're missing on the site or that works particularly well for you - I would love to hear about it. In order to make this site something that everyone can enjoy and use, we need your feedback :)

Simply email me on merle@cooreea.co.nz and I will try to reply personally to everyone who takes their time and has questions and wish you all happy and safe travels this summer!

Drawing a new roadmap

We spent three days of last week having our last 'work camp' in Europe before Merle and Gwilym head back to New Zealand.

Between getting up at 3am to see Obama triumph, and bobbing for apples we gathered from the local tree at our last dinner, we packed in a lot of work to draw up our new development road map for the next six months.

So, new features are coming, even a whole new application of sorts to tackle recurring rides. We are also going to move our European site launch forward and many other small design and bug fixes are coming up.

Things are happening :-)

New account signup problems with Hotmail email addresses

We have noticed that people with Hotmail email addresses are not getting our account activation email. It looks like Hotmail is treating us as spam, which is not uncommon for new domains on the net.

If you have signed up but not received an activation email, please email us directly and we will sort it out