Renting and dropping off at the same place?

i fly from singapore, so i getting singapore travel insurance.

MSIG
http://www.msig.com.sg/common/index.asp?pageid=9700

MSIG premium insurance have excess of SGD1500

I planning to hire a ford focus trend from Apex car rental and their excess is NZD1500
https://www.apexrentals.co.nz/booking-step1...63-429a4a076bf4

The different is little.
else, i need to pay extra NZD230 for the excess insurance.

i will be travel for 25 days.

This post has been edited by angelgemini: May 27 2014, 09:53 PM

Ah, Ok - seems SG insurance has higher coverage than the ones I've found in MY

took the car at Auckland return at Queenstown and fly back to Auckland. My travel route quite similar to yours.

Hi everyone, I am planning to go to South Island during Christmas this year. It will be about 2 weeks self drive.

Anyone knows if the shops in towns along the way will still be open during the Christmas week, especially diners/cafes?

Thanks.

July is the coldest month. bbrrr.. Have fun!

sound scary, how cold NZ can be?

Which part you going? North or South? North island Auckland still okay la. South I dunno and don't wanna know. I hate cold, I hate winter, I don't really like snow.

diver's syndrome

both island

17 jul - 11 aug

Yaa prefer sea sand sun and hot weather

North should be fine. South especially the southern parts may be quite cold. I didn't go there during winter, last year was around late april early may but I found it quite cold for me already. Generally, July is still the coldest month in that country.

vitamin sea

anyways, I'll be in NZ from end September, hate cold too but gotta try skiiing coz it looks so awesome!

This post has been edited by scpt: Jun 5 2014, 08:40 PM

Oh yes vitamin sea

September should have good weather. I'll be going there lepak next year March/April. Want to try out diving there someday. They say you can just go and catch your own crayfish and cook.

The best skiing months are typically July-Aug. Sept is a bit late.

Reason is you want the coldest months to get the dry powdery snow which makes for smooth, fast, fantastic skiing. When it get warmer in Sept, the snow tends to get icy and chunky and not so smooth. But no worries, as a beginner you can stick to the beginner areas where they make artificial snow and groom it with grooming tractors so you don't really know the difference.

Don't really fancy the lift pass rates though (http://www.mtruapehu.com/winter/lift-passes) at x2.7 exchange rate. Wasn't a problem when I was working there though...

i so miss nz, got any cheap ticket to aukland? i planning to go next year around may.

MAS have cheap ticket to auckland, almost the price of budget promotion airline.

I paying like SGD 1.5 for 2 pax while MAS is SGD 1.7k for 2 pax return.

i think cheapest is to take AA to Melbourne / Sydney then transit to Auckland via jetstar.

Cheapest now would be to transit in Aussie.
I paid RM811 for my flight KL-Sydney return (booked last few days during AA promo). And Jetstar promo Sydney-Auckland was around AUD150 one way.
That makes up about RM811 + RM900 so RM1.7k return KL-Auckland stopover in Sydney for a few hours/days.

I'll be looking to do some diving there too!

oh icic. It'll be my first time so as long as I get to do it I'll be happy

that's super cheap! I jumped at my purchase and didn't wait for promo and came up to be around 1.2k KL>MEL>AUK. Wanted to transit in Sydney and visit for a day but since the Jetstar from Sydney to Auckland will stop at Melbourne first, so might as well go straight to Melbourne

Ehhh, jetstar Sydney- Auckland will stop by Melbourne? I didn't notice that lol. Have not booked my Sydney-Auckland flight yet.