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Planning to rent a campervan and explore New Zealand’s North Island? Keen to know where you can make the most of your experience by freedom camping? We’ve got you covered! Freedom camping is a great way to immerse yourself in the fun of campervan travel while you stretch your travel budget. It also opens up the opportunity to meet like-minded travellers and explore more of New Zealand’s beautiful destinations. 

The North Island is dotted with incredible freedom camping spots to park up your RV rental. In this helpful guide, we'll share our top 15 freedom camping destinations, from Northland to Wellington. Let’s get started!

Planning to rent a campervan and explore New Zealand’s South Island? Freedom camping is a great way to make your travel budget go further, meet new friends, and make the most of this beautiful country. If you’re looking for prime spots to park up when you visit New Zealand, we’ve got you covered! In this helpful guide, the team at Britz New Zealand has put together a list of the top freedom camping sites in the South Island. Keen to check them out? Let’s get started!

A road trip around New Zealand’s North Island is a bucket list adventure for locals and visitors alike. The list of great things to see and do is long, but the drive between each is short. That means you can pack in plenty of fun and adventure along the way.

With a Britz campervan hire, you can plan your North Island road trip to see and do whatever interests you. Create a road trip itinerary planner around your must-do New Zealand experiences. Tick off your wish list of amazing walks, waterfalls, or wineries.

Wondering where to find the best camping in Raglan? At Britz New Zealand, we like to do the research for you, making it super easy to create the ultimate family road trip planner. In this guide, we share some of the best family-friendly campgrounds and holiday parks in Raglan, including:

From its revitalised city centre to its abundance of natural beauty, Christchurch is as diverse and colourful as its communities. That makes it the perfect destination to rent a campervan and take a family holiday. To help you plan your motorhome holiday in this awesome South Island city, we’ve put together a list of the top 15 family-friendly things to do in Christchurch.

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A Britz holiday is all about fun, adventure, excitement, new experiences, meeting people and spending time with family and friends. We are confident that in choosing Britz, that is exactly what you will get.

We love what we do and have the knowledge, support and outstanding customer service that any visitor would expect.

You've probably heard on the grapevine about campervanning in New Zealand. About waking up next to crystal clear lakes and snow-capped mountains, relaxing on pristine beaches, exploring landscapes on some of our great walks and snapping some breathtaking photos. 

So, to help you get started on how to campervan in New Zealand, we've collated the best campervan tips from our one million-plus travellers. From trip highlights and customer curated itineraries to help plan your trip, to how to find your perfect campervan and where to stay with it. 

Officer Travels are Leah & Declan a British travel blogger couple who decided to explore New Zealand's North Island in one of our Britz campervans. They picked up the campervan at our Auckland branch with the idea of completing as many walks on the North Island as possible throughout their 5-week hire, and to freedom camp as often as possible. Many people would choose to do both Islands within this time but Leah & Declan wanted to explore every corner of the North. And it seems like it didn’t disappoint! The walks on the North Island vary and there really is something for everyone. Leah said, having a Britz vehicle made the hikes even easier. The layout inside gave them the space to get ready for the day without having to fold away a bed first. Additionally, they also found a second purpose for the toilet space - a drying room for all the clothes after those rainy day walks!

So continue reading to hear all about Officer Travels favourite walks and hikes on the North Island. To read about their experience with Britz check out their blog post here.

Known as the adventure capital of New Zealand, Queenstown draws visitors from around the world all year round. Its combination of spectacular scenery and awesome South Island activities makes Queenstown especially popular with camper and motorhome travellers. If you’re looking for the best South Island skiing, Queenstown is the place to be. But you don’t have to be a snow bunny to make the most of this region in winter. Queenstown is also the ideal spot to base yourself for a winter road trip to discover more of the great things to do in the South Island. 

Grab your coat and beanie and get ready to be inspired as we take a look at some of the best road trips from Queenstown to take in winter. 

When it comes to heading north from Auckland in a campervan, I frequently take a left-hand turn at Bryndrwyn, near the turn-off to Waipu. From there, I savour the journey through the gentle hills and hidden havens of Kaipara Harbour, which offer an abundance of history and off-the-beaten-track adventure.

This region is not completely overlooked by travellers. It forms part of the well-known Twin Coast Discovery Tour, which takes in both the western route and suggests a return journey via the better-known east coast. This is certainly a trip I recommend to any visitors wanting to explore New Zealand’s Northland in a rental campervan.  

Of course, it’s easy to see why the coastal towns of the east coast route are so popular, especially in summer, when the turquoise seas and white sands are dramatically contrasted with red flowering pohutukawa trees. But, for me, especially in the transitional seasons of autumn and spring, New Zealand’s Kaipara Region really comes in to its own.

Then, the crowds are thinned and the harbour is often at its tranquil best. This is also a time when the mature trees planted by early settlers, and the white-washed colonial buildings, stand out; luminescent in the softer light against the backdrop of rolling green hills.