Originally Posted by StarFeat

Apparently one outside of reservation expenses, sometimes do also pay another price for embarking on MRs - at the expense of Interrogation. Last week while doing doing DEN-SFO-(via SYD)-AKL-(via SIN)-ZRH-ORD, the folks at AKL apparently had an incredulous take to my motive for a 1-night stay was collecting miles. I was interrogated by New Zealand immigration for almost two hours where the lady who cross examined me asked about my profession, my marriage status and went through every single inch of my luggages, carryon, laptop and went back and forth between her supervisor about my state. She found it impossible that I would endure a long 14+ hour transpacific run, only to stay one night without knowing anyone here having only a passport, hotel/car rental reservation and then leaving immediately the next day for Europe. She would go on and on that I was lying to her about collecting miles and wanted me to distort my story when I have no other ones and was simply being 100% honest. She and her supervisor even called the SQ AKL office to verify that I was a booked passenger on the next day's flight. The lenghty interrogation at one point became very tedious that I feared that this would be the first time that I'd be refused entry into a country. Though after the whole ordeal, they finally let me out and said that the reason for my interrogation was the fact that I fell into the criteria for being high risk.

Well next time I'm doing an MR via NZ, I'd make sure I have a same day connection enabling me to immediately transit airside and avoid having to pass immigration. I'm not a heavy MR person but I have done several MRs in the past with short stays of country/continent hopping and last week was the first time I had been severly grilled and sent to scrutiny. I had no problems at ZRH BTW despite only staying 2 nights.

Anyone else been interrogated for MR itineraries?