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15/3/2016 at 1:41pm
Location: Ayrshire
Outfit: Auto-Sleeper MHs
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I've just returned from visiting relatives in NZ, first visit for over a decade. Some key points to be aware of if you're thinking of fulfilling that dream of hiring a motorhome here....
1. to 'wild camp' or Freedom Camp (as it's called, not on a site), you MUST be in an area that allows this. There are plenty.... There will be a sign showing the limitations, which vary e.g. no more than 6 motorhomes, maximum 3 nights stay, no return within a month. It may be that a public car park or viewpoint layby allows camping in one section only, or a city may allow freedom camping in designated areas only.
2. to Freedom Camp, your unit MUST have a current "Self Containment Certificate" - this is a blue sticker, it's put on the outside of the vehicle, and shows you have a toilet, water etc. " A self containment certificate provides local authorities and communities with a way to recognise that a vehicle poses minimal risk to the environment and public health. That way they are able to accommodate motor caravans at reserves and other areas where there are limited or no external facilities. Without self containment, the environmental and public health problems caused by motor caravans will become unacceptable, and will result in councils and government placing increasing restrictions on the use of motor caravans." Without this certificate, you risk waking up to a hefty fine slapped on the windscreen - which happened to the happy hippy types in old campervans parked up at the beaches while I was there. The usual hired MHs will have one, but check. Otherwise, you'll have to stay on a site.
3. Site fees, for example at one by a beach in S Island, $21 pp (say, £10 pp). You can often hire a cabin - 2 berth no loo $50 for 2 (£25), or an ensuite cabin $100 (£50) for two. That's an alternative which isn't so available in UK.
4. Diesel is much much cheaper than petrol. The vehicles are taxed differently depending on whether they are petrol or diesel.
Will we be camping next time we visit? Unlikely. We have a MH, and love wild places here. But in NZ Motorhomes largely travel in convoys with others from one beauty spot to the next as they leave the site at the same time, going to the same viewpoint. And there are some amazing routes that I wouldn't take a MH onto (steep, narrow, bendy, gravel...) We'll hire a "rent-a-dent" car and use Airbnb. But that's just our dream. Visiting NZ is a thing that, once done, you want to do over & over again.
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