Hey everyone,
Wow, sounds exciting. Good luck with it all; I'm sure you'll have an amazing time.
New Zealand is an extremely safe country in most regards (there's actually a lot of burglary and petty theft, if I remember those statistics correctly, but being there as a traveller, you couldn't feel safer).
It's been a few years since I was there last, but it used to be that nearly every single hostel I visited had a note or two up on the notice board about people travelling somewhere by car and looking for fellow travellers heading in the same direction to share fuel costs.
As for busses: the further you get away from January (peak season), the more discounts you should come across. Intercity busses have non refundable fares when you book well in advance (these used to be marketed as "SuperSaver"), but "well in advance" used to be as little as 2 days in advance in low season. Their bus passes can also work out pretty cheaply if you do the math, and there's nakedbus as a relatively new player on the market, which has promotional $1 fares and generally tries to slightly undercut Intercity. The network is excellent, and busses go virtually everywhere you could possible want to go on a daily basis; several times a day for popular routes.
If you are there for a while its worth looking into buying a car with someone... my first car (and second after crashing that) cost $800 and $900 respectively and they were both road ready! As NZ is so small you can travel anywhere easily however petrol is pretty expensive there! Bus arn't too bad naked bus is definately the way to go though! I used to use it when I was still living there and travelling between Auckalnd and Tauranga all the time... worth a look
thanks guys!! i have skipped on the kiwi bus and now the local bus sounds fine. i think once im there the nerves will leave.... im getting super excited now.. and 13 working days left!!
im a 26 yr old girl, ill be travelling in NZ from 7th dec - 4th jan so would be looking for travel companion if your interested?.
hey sorry but it looks like i now wont arrive till the 18 th my friend decided to come and stay w me on bali for 2 wks. but have fun!!!
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