The answer to your first question is yes, it is very possible. My wife and I have tourned NZ four times, twice on each Island. We've always been fully loaded, as it is an ideal country for camping (You can camp wild, camp in DOC campgrounds, or at KOA-type "motercamps" or "holiday parks" that are everywhere and usually evenly spaced for moderate length bike rides). But there are also numerous backpackers and hostels and over the years the number of motels have increased dramatically too. They are clean and nicely equiped and you'll always get a kitchenette and refrigerator with milk for your tea. Most are relatively inexpensive (at least by U.S. standards).
You will be going before peak season and school holidays (at least I think so) so my guess is you won't have any trouble finding places to stay even without advanced booking. I mention the motorcamps and holiday parks because the majority of these also have simple small cabins where you can stay even if you don't have camping gear. They are inexpensive because they are usually small and you can use the toliet, shower and kitchen blocks that are for the campers. Every motorcamp and holiday park has full kitchens with refrigerators, stoves, microwaves, toasters and hot water kettles (usually there is always boiling water available for tea, but pushing a button or pulling a lever). They also have rec rooms with TVs and on our last trip most also had Internet. Are you going to the North Island or the South? It has been 20 years since I've been to the North Island, and I have heard traffic has become much worse, but I can still probably offer advice on routes if you want to contact me offline. Pete On Jun 9, 10:55 pm, Gino Zahnd <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks folks. I just booked a 22 day chunk of time for late > November/December via Qantas Air. Round trip from SFO is $549. I'm not > sure what the deal is with flights right now, but I saw roundtrip to Paris, > Germany, Ireland, etc. from California for around $450, which seems mighty > cheap, relatively speaking. > > Now, time to figure out what to do with that 22 days. > > > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:36 PM, David Estes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also get hold of Antoine at: http://ibikenz.blogspot.com/ > > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Jun 9, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Gino Zahnd wrote: > > >> > I'm considering heading to NZ for several weeks, and I'm wondering > >> > if it's possible to inn-to-inn or hostel tour. Ideally, I'd like > >> > to get away with simply a handlebar bag, and a saddlebag. If you've > >> > done this, let me know how easy/hard it is, and what you'd have > >> > done differently. > > >> Check out the New Zealand section ofhttp://www.crazyguyonabike.com > > > -- > > Cheers, > > David > > Redlands, CA- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
