Is it easy in NZ to find Motels / Hotels in their winter? We'll be renting a car and driving from North down to South , but only booked hotels for the arrival / return in Auckland and planning to stop on the way in hotels / motels.

Only me and GF going, for Auckland have already booked hotel for arrival / departure.

Plan is to drive from Auckland down to Queenstown and then fly back from there - the trip isn't planned exactly, so was just wondering how easy it is to find random Motels/Hotels on the way that don't need booking.

Guess I could just book online whilst on the road also assuming I have 3G coverage!

Next week

Ended up going with gorentals.co.nz

Managed to get a RELO (ie. relocation) deal , where the company needed to transport the car back to Queeenstown anyway

Car is a TOYOTA RAV4

For 7 days comes to 364 NZD including GPS, Snow chains, and extra insurance (ie 350 NZD excess rather than 2500 NZD) did this because GF has never driven in snow/ice before - and I don't even have a license

That's the plan.

Actually only Basic Insurance is included , additional NZD 20 per day for the 350 NZD excess, 35 extra per day for no excess.

Otherwise excess is 2500 NZD, no matter if you're at fault or not (according to car rental website that is)

Basically means that if you have an accident with basic insurance, you need to fork out 2500 NZD rather than 350, quite a difference. Since the car was much cheaper than standard rate (86 NZD per day standard vs. 19) thought might as well spend this on the extra insurance.

Driving time is approx 3-4 hours per day, split over 7 days

This post has been edited by rjb123: May 27 2014, 07:48 PM

Travel insurance will cover you for lost luggage, long flight delays, hospital costs in case of injuries.

I doubt it will cover the cost for any excess relating to accident that happens in a rented car

Looks like I'm wrong

Looking at : http://malaysia.kurnia.com/Insurance/Kurni...me/Default.aspx

RM500 / RM1000 per person depending on policy, but I guess every insurer will be different

This post has been edited by rjb123: May 27 2014, 08:06 PM

Well depends on the plan, who is your insurance with?

If you use the one I found above for example, coverage is RM500 per person.

So without the extra daily NZD 20, total 2500 NZD = RM6900 - that would still leave RM5900 excess!

Renting and dropping off at the same place?

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

I used 2degrees SIM card , 1 gb package is $20 NZD for a month. SIM card cost me $5 NZD

Actually I still have this SIM card, has $16 NZD inside. PM me if you want it , as I won't be back to NZ next year.

Prepay Credit (16.08 $NZ expiring on 06 June 2015) 16.08 $NZ

Not sure, didn't use up the full GB.

Can check on 2degrees website for details

Works OK, outside cities it roams on Vodafone's data network

The Credit is valid for 12 months, the data package only for 1 month.

Actually the credit would have been $36.08 as the data plan automatically renewed itself after a month - which I've now cancelled.

Card was used for calls etc. between too - the amount/date I pasted before was from the 2degrees online login



Whatever really, I prefer to give it away to someone that uses it rather than leaving it in a drawer until the credit expires

Yeah totally forgot about this until I logged in yesterday ... didn't realise it was auto renewing.

Well you could top up a small amount and buy a $20 1gb back, or don't top up and buy a $6 100MB + $10 300MB package

http://www.2degreesmobile.co.nz/prepay/pri...acks/data-packs

Fine by me, I'll keep it safe for now.

@wjchay, if you need it first can PM me.

This post has been edited by rjb123: Jul 23 2014, 12:51 AM