What Campervan Travel means?

It may sound obvious, but there is still some people that are looking in the campervan some kind of luxury 4-stars hotel with a nice bell-boy that brings up your bags. Well, sorry to disappoint, but even if I think everybody is able to do campervan travel, you must understand that it is possibly one of the wildest ways to travel. According to this, I think it definitely fits when you are visiting wild places. In a campervan you will not have time or hour to arrive to somewhere, you’ll have absolute freedom of decision, you’ll be able to sleep wherever you want except in specifically forbidden places and you’ll be able to also take a shower or cook inside.

Campervan Travel reduces the cost of the trip then?

If you do it in the right way, it definitely does. Hiring a campervan in New Zealand can be at a cost of 30 Euros (44$) per day during April to October, which is the low season down there. In this case, I must say that the typical European, Asian or American summer holidays will fit perfectly with the low season there. Still, take into account that flights will be more expensive as it is high season in your departure country.

There are many campervan companies there, one of them called United Campervans, that have special offers with free days for hiring for a certain period of time. In fact, hiring a campervan from them for 21 days will let you pay nothing from the 14th to the 21st day. In that way, hiring 14 days has the same price than hiring 21, so it is obvious that a good option is to use it 21 days to take the maximum benefit of the offer. Furthermore, after the day 21, for every 2 payed days you get 1 free. That makes that you could take a 27 days trip paying only for 18 for example.

What about travel insurance? Does it go normally included in Campervan Travel?

Travel insurance is possibly what we hate most, but in the end it helps protecting us from unexpected situations. And in a country of such wild nature as New Zealand, probably unexpected things can happen. The rates I mentioned below include a travel insurance that cover for an excess of 5.000 $NZ. That means about 2500 Euros. If anything happens to the vehicle, you could need to pay this quantity, but anything more than this quantity is covered by the insurance company. In any case, there are other complete insurances for an extra price of 15 Euros per day of hiring in a way that whatever it happens you can be covered.

Are there facilities for the campervans? Can I park wherever I want or do I need to use camping sites?

New Zealand campervan travel makes it easy for you. Both options are open, and it will depend on you if you want to use facilities or your prefer to camp next to the beach. The price for the camping places is very cheap, and they are well-equipped. From my personal point of view I recommend to always camp somewhere else, as in the country this is allowed, but of course for a long trip you will need a place where to get water and clean the clothes, so it is good to visit one every week or so.

So, would you recommend to do campervan travel there?

Absolutely. I think that going to hotels in New Zealand would be a waste of time. You are not there to admire the cities, you are there for the natural hot spots, and those ones can’t be seen from your window. The freedom that campervan travel gives to you will allow you to enjoy from all this sightseeing even more, to the point of sleeping next to the hottest spot you can find around.

Still, I’m one of those who prefer a 4 stars hotel, what should I do?

Probably the same as I do sometimes, get a travel certificate for free that would allow you to stay for 7 nights up to 4 persons in a deluxe rooms in a 4 or 5 stars hotel. The guys that distribute these certificates have some hotels and apartments in New Zealand at Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. The discount you get by one of this travel certificates is up to a 95%.

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