Risk-adverse Aussies are being told to avoid Auckland when the bubble opens - least they get trapped in a lockdown.

The trans-Tasman bubble takes flight first thing on Monday morning.

But travel writer Ben Groundwater told Heather du Plessis-Allan Auckland's at the bottom of his list of Kiwi destinations.

He says with the supercity's history of snap lockdowns and heaving MIQ facilities - he'd expect the next outbreak to crop up there.

"Australians have had their share of regional lockdowns - interstate travel in Australia's been rife been problems and people are wary of getting stuck in a city far from home."

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