Moved from Surrey United Kingdom to Christchurch New Zealand
The planning process and information process of our move was relatively straight forward, the packers and movers from the UK end were fantastic and so far from what we can see nothing has been damaged in transit.
However, the arrival stage wasn't so smooth...
There was a lack of information given to the packers when packing our stuff, and it was things we didn't necessarily think about when in the throes of the move.
As New Zealand is very strict on the cleanliness of items that potentially could threaten the bio security items such as tents weren't listed as such, these needed to be checked but I couldn't tell from the inventory where they were located in the boxes, luckily I roughly remembered where they were and all went well in the end but it wasn't as easy as it should have been.
Also, my husband has imported a Lambretta scooter which Relo UK didn't advise us of the things needed to be done upon arrival and the additional inspection fees etc which we were expected to pay. If we had known all of the additional work we needed to have done which also included many receipts we needed and that we needed to have gotten a site unseen valuation we may have considered not bringing the scooter with us.
All in all the experience was pretty good, the UK crew were very slick, but there were a few things that should have been addressed and organised with us before things were loaded into the container which would have made the process a bit easier at this end.