New Zealand Travel Package
New Zealand is an absolutely wonderful place to visit. We planned to marry in New Zealand in 2021 and booked a travel/wedding package to get there. However, due to Covid, New Zealand closed to visitors for over two years, from 2020 thru 2022. When it reopened in 2022, we replanned our trip and visited in February of 2023. We started in Auckland on the North Island, having flown from Maui in Hawaii. This is where we married two years earlier at sunset on a gorgeous beach.
On February 13, we left Auckland for Queenstown and the South Island a day ahead of when a serious Cyclone (hurricane for us) struck the North Island. Later we returned to the North Island on February 24 where we visited Bay of Islands. After a couple of days, we returned to Auckland and boarded a cruise down the eastern side of both islands. Truly an experience of a lifetime.
New Zealand Travel Package -Getting Around
If you plan on travelling between the North and South Island, you have two primary choices. You can fly between a northern and a southern city, or you can take the ferry from Wellington to Picton. In fact, you have the option of taking a train between many of the principal cities on both islands. To that point, we highly recommend taking the TranzAlpine train on the South Island. For more information please visit our post on trains and other transport options.
In addition, another option of getting around New Zealand is to rent a small camping vehicle. We noticed a number of people renting just such vehicles from Jucy. If you are a camper, you might want to try it.