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How to travel to New Zealand?
Great traffic
When skiing in the South Island of New Zealand, most people will take Queenstown as their first destination, so flying to Queenstown Airport is naturally the best choice. There is a connecting flight from China to Queenstown, with Auckland and Sydney as the mainstream transit points.
Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Chengdu and other places now have direct flights to Auckland. The flight time of the direct flight is about 1 1 hour, and the connecting flight time with Queenstown is about 14- 16 hour. In the absence of airline promotion, the domestic air ticket to and from New Zealand is about 7000- 10000 RMB, and it may be as low as 3000-5000 RMB in the case of big promotion. Paying more attention to the preferential information of airlines will help to grab discounted air tickets in the first time.
If the connecting flight time is not ideal or the price is too high when searching for air tickets, you can consider searching for direct flights from China to Auckland/Sydney, and then purchase flights from Air New Zealand, Qantas and Jetstar to Queenstown respectively to increase the flexibility of the journey. (Remember to pay attention to the issue of transit visas when transiting Australia)
After landing at Queenstown Airport, you can easily buy an Internet card (you can also buy it on Taobao in advance in China).
Small flow
be self-drive
After landing from Queenstown Airport, the skiing trip officially began. Self-driving is the best way to visit New Zealand, but self-driving skiing in winter needs extra care. There are a large number of car rental agencies in Queenstown Airport. Due to the large demand for car rental in peak season, it is highly recommended to book cars online in advance. China driver's license can be used to rent a car in New Zealand. It is recommended to prepare an English translation. New Zealand keeps the left rudder and the right rudder, which is contrary to the domestic situation. In this regard, old drivers should always be vigilant, and the incidence of self-driving accidents caused by retrograde is not low every year.
New Zealand's winter weather is unpredictable, roads are frozen, and rain, snow and fog happen from time to time. When renting a car, you must ask for or add snow chains. The ski resort will also issue a daily road report to inform whether the uphill road is smooth or not, and recommend snow chains for two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive vehicles.
The road conditions of South Island Ski Resort in New Zealand are difficult to open, and many ski resorts have unpaved dirt roads. The road conditions are changeable, some are wide with guardrails, and some are narrow without guardrails, which makes you drive with trepidation. In case of rain and snow, driving skills will be tested even more. Muddy and slippery road conditions, loading and unloading chains, traffic jams and car meetings during rush hours, although New Zealand is a holy place for self-driving, skiing and self-driving is by no means easy, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is a small adventure in China. I suggest you rent a four-wheel drive SUV with snow chains to better ensure the safety of going up and down the mountain.
About snow chains: The staff at designated loading and unloading points will also give help to novices, but I suggest that you must learn how to load and unload snow chains.
Parking in most resorts and ski resorts in New Zealand is free, and parking spaces are also tight. If you leave late, you have to park your car in the parking lot far from the cable car station, and then walk or take the shuttle bus to the ski resort. Headache is mud. When it rains and snows, the parking lot is muddy. If you hate someone, let him fall down in a beautiful snowsuit.
Here, the road situation is grim, but it is by no means alarmist. /kloc-in mid-August of 0/7, a vehicle bound for MtHutt was almost pushed off a cliff by an avalanche, and accidents such as anchoring and skidding also occurred from time to time. If you have confidence in your driving skills and safe driving knowledge, self-driving is a flexible and economical way to travel in skiing in New Zealand, which is highly recommended. If you are not confident enough, you'd better try to take convenient public transportation.
public transportation
Public transport in New Zealand is not complicated. Queenstown Airport is only 15 minutes' drive from the town center, so it is very convenient to take taxis and buses. Friends who have ski equipment are advised to use the SuperShuttle service, and they can carpool while picking up the plane. The price is also approachable. Specific information can be found on the official website of supershuttle.co.nz.
There are super buses at all major airports in New Zealand.
Queenstown and Wanaka are both small, so walking is enough. Taxis and buses are also very easy to ride, so I won't go into details here. Compared with these, everyone should be most concerned about the ski buses leading to various snow fields.
The five commercial ski resorts in the South Island mentioned above are all in Queenstown, and there are corresponding ski buses to and from the ski resorts in Wanaka and Christchurch. These buses are operated by official ski resorts or bus/tour companies, and most of them start from the city center or popular locations. The specific ride information will be listed below by ski resort.
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