I am in a despute with a friend about the cost of traveling to New Zealand. Can you do one month with $1,000?

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zee_prime

I live in NZ and our cash income is quite low, but we live well. If you avoid tourist traps like Rotorua, Queenstown and the ski places, you'll save a lot of money and you won't miss much. Some of our most interesting places you hardly ever read about in the tourist brochures. Like the Southern Scenic Route; the coastal route from Dunedin to Te Anau. The lesser-known walking tracks like the Whangapeka track, the Heaphy track and Stewart Island's walking tracks. But buy your supplies before arriving on Stewart Island; the local shops are expensive. Compared with most developed countries, NZ is a cheap place to live, provided you do your homework first and avoid ripoff places. Yes, you could have a good time here for $1000 for a month. Stay in backpackers, avoid the scenic rail trips, hitch hike, travel by bus or see if any rental cars need returning to other centres.

Relax123

Take it from Someone who traveled NZ on only 1000....hostels are super cheap...stay at charlie Bs in christchurch...southern laughter in queenstown...climb mt franz josef and then take train back to christchurch......everybody else is correct in the fact that this is not including ticket...enjoy

Bruce T

You might be able to do it for $1000 but you certainly aren't going to get the most out of the country. There is so much to see and do and a lot of it is free but it costs money to get there. You should have some sort of vehicle to get you around to different places. You could buy a van and then sell it and the net cost would only be about $100.

In my opinion you want a bigger budget to get the most out of the country.

dude

excluding a plane ticket and having a free place to stay. yes.

yellow99balloons

Think you got to beg, borrow, steal, rob and/or cheat in NZ. Unless you're travelling by bicycle and sleeping in tents and survivng on plucked fruits, it's really hard to stretch your $1K for a month. Check out the oanda website for exchange rates

blacksheep557

If your total budget is 1000 dollars, the exchange rate willl improve that slightly, however, the cost of air fares will take a high proportion of that. To be in NZ for one month, your food budget alone will use whats left.

tell your friend, that yes 30 years ago that would have been realistic, but your friend will need more than 1000 dollars.
It is a good idea to buy your tickets early to get the best price. If you can pre pay some of your known expences before departure then do so. That leaves the spending money or out of pocket expences will be all the cash you need.
you dont say whatcountry you are from , so have a good look at the exchange rate
Best of luck

skyyn777

Excluding your plane ticket, you can hitchhike around, stay in Hostel, eat, and maybe have a beer or two, but that's about it.
Current USD to Kiwi is about 1.6 not triple. Do some research before and such an ignorant question

Chris Y

Can you swim?

sticky

Not cheap, especially for tourists. You certainly won't get luxury for that price. Also a lot of the really fun adventure stuff, especially in Queenstown is $100-$200. A beer alone is NZ$6-7 in most places. I would say minnimum NZ$3000 for a month and even then it will be tight.

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