{"id":1152,"date":"2011-08-22T16:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:53:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:53:32","slug":"on-the-other-side-of-the-tasman-part-1-plannung-a-trup-un-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/on-the-other-side-of-the-tasman-part-1-plannung-a-trup-un-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Other Side Of The Tasman Part 1: Plannung a Trup Un New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Quite a few Australians are thinking of heading over to the other side of the Tasman during the upcoming Rugby World Cup.\u00a0 And quite a few of them are considering hiring cars to get around while they\u2019re over there.\u00a0 What do you need to know about driving in New Zealand and what are some good road trips to do while you\u2019re over there?<\/p>\n

Driving in New Zealand is pretty similar to driving over here, and you can use your Australian driver\u2019s licence without any problems if you\u2019re only over here for the Rugby World Cup.\u00a0 You won\u2019t have any hassles about remembering what side of the road to drive on \u2013 it\u2019s just the same.\u00a0 The give way rules at intersections and roundabouts are considered to be unique but it\u2019s not that different to what happens over here: if you\u2019re turning left, give way to anything that\u2019s going to conflict with you. If you\u2019re turning right, give way to things going straight through.\u00a0 If you\u2019re going straight through, give way to anything going straight through from your right.\u00a0 If you want more details, you can read about it on the NZ Transport Agency\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regarding fuel, you have the choice of 98 octane unleaded, 91 octane unleaded, diesel and LPG. CNG is available in the North Island only.\u00a0 Oddly, New Zealand doesn\u2019t seem to have cottoned onto the idea of ethanol and ethanol blends much (at least not yet), so don\u2019t go looking for these at the bowser.\u00a0 Fuel prices are higher than over here, even when you take the exchange rate into account, so it could be wiser to hire a more frugal vehicle \u2013 a little hatchback might be all you need.\u00a0 The garages tend to warn you if they\u2019re the last one for a big stretch, although their big stretches aren\u2019t as big as ours.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the required stuff \u2013 now for the fun bits.\u00a0 What\u2019s a good drive to do while you\u2019re over there?\u00a0 New Zealand is tiny compared to Australia, but that doesn\u2019t mean that you can\u2019t get some good drives with good scenery.\u00a0 You can get from one end of the country to the other in a couple of days (provided the ferry crossing in the middle works out right), but most visitors like to take their time.\u00a0 Australia will be playing in a number of places: Auckland, Wellington and Nelson.\u00a0 Two of these are in the North Island, and one\u2019s in the South Island, so you can plan your drive depending on where you want to go.<\/p>\n

However, don\u2019t feel limited to stick to the cities and towns where the Wallabies will be playing.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of the country to
\nsee, and you may as well make the most of it while you\u2019re over there, especially if you\u2019re down south.\u00a0 The fishing season will have just started, and you can probably find a bit of time to do a Lord of The Rings movie location trip if the fancy takes you that way.<\/p>\n

If you want to take in both islands, give a little thought to how you\u2019re going to get from north to south or vice versa.\u00a0 You can put a hired car on the ferry, but it may be easier to hire separate cars on each side of Cook Straight, depending on how much luggage you have \u2013 if you have a fair bit, keeping to the one car might be the easier option. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/microzaymi-blog-single.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quite a few Australians are thinking of heading over to the other side of the Tasman during the upcoming Rugby World Cup.\u00a0 And quite a few of them are considering hiring cars to get around while they\u2019re over there.\u00a0 What do you need to know about driving in New Zealand and what are some good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12432,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/12432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}