Our trips

This blog is about a 5-day travel from Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand to Auckland, North Island, by motorhome.
Every year when the summer season ends the rental car companies need to move their motorhomes, campervans and cars back to the starting points. Last summer some sport event caused that thousands motorhomes were moved from Auckland to Chirstchurch. To get them back the companies offer so-called Relocation Deals, when you can rent a motorhome or campervan for only $1 per day. You have limited number of days to make the trip and sometimes limited mileage allowance. More details can be found here.
So our family decided to use this opportunity to visit South Island where we had never been before, and also try this new way of travel. We booked a 6-berth motorhome, flew to Christchurch and rode the vehicle to Auckland through the Southern Alps, across the Cook Strait and along the country roads of New Zealand.


This is a story about how this happened.
My daughter wrote the diary, so she is the main author of the following posts with my comments marked in italic.

This Web Album covers the story.