Travel to New Zealand

The Rough Guide To New Zealand - 4th Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Laura Harper
ReleaseDate: 18 October, 2004
Publisher: Rough Guides
Rating:

Easy to read, easy to use
This book includes clear, detailed descriptions that really help you decide where to go, what to see, and what to skip. Not only does this guide provide extensive recommendations for places to say, places to eat, and activities, it's also very well written. An indispensible travel guide for anyone headed to New Zealand, whatever your budget.

Not Rick Steves
I had heard that other Rough Guides were like that, but this one is like most guide books - tells about everything with recommendations about what's best, hard to find. I was looking for a Rick Steves like guide to New Zealand - a book that concisely told where to go and where not to go. A good book to use as a reference but not quite what I was looking for.

Indispensable Guide for New Zealand
Soon we were only consulting Rough Guide - for lodging, meals and places to visit. We brought 3 guides for 6 weeks in New Zealand - Rough Guide, Lonely Planet and Eye Witness. The others stayed in the trunk of the car. Particularly good were the author's distillations of what was most important to see. While at Orakei Korako to see an example of geothermal activity, we encountered a group of U. S. geologists who had chosen to tour only O. K. after a mining conference in Australia. It was great to have contact numbers for rafting companies or wildlife spots such as Royal Albatross Center or Penguin Place so we could easily schedule tours to those places well in advance of arriving in the vicinty. Staying in Arrowtown rather than Queenstown or spending several days in Wanaka would not have occurred to us except for the Rough Guide's Advice. Even 6 weeks in New Zealand isn't enough for that country - we hope to use a future Rough Guide for our next trip.
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