New Zealand Frontiers Motorhomes Rental

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New Zealand has over 300 holiday parks and campgrounds offering safe, friendly accommodation with full facilities, electricity equipped sites and very reasonable fees. Additionally the Department of Conservation (DOC) provides facilities for motorhomes at a modest cost in many scenic locations throughout the country. Free-camping is also permited in most regions.

Motorhome parks in New Zealand are generally open year round, with most providing full kitchen, bathroom, laundry and waste dump facilities. Reservations are not necessary except during the local peak summer holiday period from Christmas until mid January when it is recommended to call ahead, especially if you anticipate arriving late.

New Zealand Frontiers provides complimentary membership of the Family Parks of New Zealand chain of holiday parks, entitling you to a 10% discount at more than 30 member properties in popular locations throughout New Zealand. Membership is also offered to the Native Parks network that provides free parking for your motorhome on private properties - offering a great opportunity to meet the locals.

Family Parks of New Zealand

The FPNZ network of properties offer a friendly atmosphere, full holiday park facilities and excellent value for money at approximately 31 convenient nationwide locations. Member properties are selected for providing professional service standards and all offer electricity equipped motorhome sites costing approx $NZD25 to $NZD35 per night for your New Zealand Frontiers two-berth motorhome and two persons. FPNZ parks also provide a complete range of affordable, self-catering holiday accommodation and camping facilities - from park motels and cabins to tent sites. You will find FPNZ parks at fantastic locations throughout New Zealand: at the beach, thermal springs, national parks, rivers and lakes, and in metropolitan centres.

New Zealand Frontiers recommends the FPNZ network with confidence. All New Zealand Frontiers rental packages include complimentary free membership of the FPNZ holiday park network that entitles you to a 10% discount on park fees. A guide to locations of the parks is provided at the time of taking delivery of your New Zealand Frontiers motorhome and the FPNZ network also maintains an easy to use website offering photos of each locality along with facility details, rates and online contact.

More info: FPNZ

Native Parks

Native Parks is a network of rural properties and businesses operated by motorhome friendly New Zealanders. Participating properties offer you a place to overnight on your travels at no cost and without obligation. A membership to Native Parks allows you to really experience New Zealand and meet a special group of New Zealanders who are as diverse in culture and enterprise as the scenery that surrounds them - and who extend an open welcome to rental motorhome travellers.

New Zealand Frontiers is proud to be associated with the introduction of Native Parks, a new concept to New Zealand that has been developed by Adrian Tonks and Carmen Penney, two local travellers who extensively used France Passion, a similar program, during their own leisurely overseas wanderings. Membership costs $NZD70 (about the same as two nights in a motorhome park) and can be selected as an option when completing your New Zealand Frontiers reservation form.

Selecting Native Parks membership with your motorhome reservation provides immediate access to the members area of the Native Parks web-site. The online version of the Native Parks guide book covers each property in detail, including location, links to any websites operated by the hosts and any special interests of the hosts - great for forward planning of your travels.

A hard copy of the Native Parks guidebook and a membership card is issued at the time of taking delivery of your motorhome and entitles you to stop for a night on your host's property, free of charge, and experience New Zealand places, people and world-class products and services, right at the source

More info: Native Parks

Holiday Accommodation Parks of New Zealand

As an umbrella organisation, HAPNZ is the largest motorhome park association in New Zealand with approximately 300 member properties, including all the FPNZ holiday parks. Members also include properties affiliated to the other major holiday park chains of Kiwi Parks and Top 10. As no single holiday park chain achieves representation in every location you are likely to visit during your travels, your New Zealand Frontiers rental package includes a guide to the locations and contact details for all HAPNZ parks.

More info: HAPNZ

Department of Conservation Campsites

The Department of Conservation manages over 250 vehicle accessible camping areas on conservation land throughout New Zealand for you to enjoy. Many are found in the types of scenic natural settings which New Zealand is renowned for - from lush forest to lake shores and sandy or pebbled beaches to alpine locations.

Conservation campsites are generally basic with facilities ranging from informal sites with very simple facilities such as pit toilets and stream water to a few well serviced grounds with a camp warden, hot showers, lighting and rubbish collection. Fees are from $NZD3 to $NZD14 per person.

More info: Department of Conservation

Free camping and parking for a coffee break

One of the wonderful benefits available to those who choose to travel by motorhome is the freedom to stop at your leisure. You will find opportunities to park up with an alpine vista outside your kitchen window or the beach outside your bedroom door!

You only need use common sense when choosing a place to stop for a few hours:

• Is it safe and clear of the road?
• Is the ground stable to drive on?
• Will your vehicle or activities be likely to cause environmental damage?
• Is it private land?

For your comfort you will want to find a place which is flat and level and which is quiet. Respect the local people and do not park in front of houses or where you might annoy others by spoiling their view.

Free camping and overnight parking on public land and in rest areas maintained by local authorities is also permitted in many areas around New Zealand ? but involves further considerations. In recent years the use of motorhomes has become very popular in New Zealand and most City, District and Regional Councils have responded to environmental responsibilities, safety considerations and commercial interest concerns, along with the general dilemma of increasing numbers of motorhomes parking overnight by creating policies on the topic. Unfortunately such laws are established on a region by region basis and vary from general prohibition to active encouragement. Should you anticipate engaging in freedom camping you are advised to seek the local regulations from the nearest information centre. Always check for and obey signs which forbid camping. You must obey any enforcement officers. Do not park next to a campground. You may not be able to stay in national parks or on popular lakefronts or harbour-sides, but there will usually be another place just as beautiful not far down the road.

You can help to reduce the need for such new laws by always being courteous to locals, thoughtful about where you park, and never leaving anything behind when you leave. "Take only photographs and leave only footprints" Never dump your grey or black water anywhere other than at a proper dump site and always take your rubbish with you.

Campgrounds and holiday parks offer many benefits and most people who free-camp still pay to use campgrounds frequently for the laundries, dump sites, water sources and other facilities they offer travellers.

Freedom Camping Motto: "Assume nothing - always ask a local"

New Zealand is proud of its 100% Pure image. In recognition of the responsibility for maintaining this image, exercising guardianship and promoting common, clear advice to those wishing to experience the privilege of freedom camping in such a widely admired land, The Tourism Industry Association of New Zealand along with a wide range of other interested organisations has established the New Zealand Freedom Camping Forum to provide advice and promote responsibility among freedom campers. New Zealand Frontiers supports the values of the Freedom Camping Forum. New Zealand Frontiers only operates fully self contained motorhomes and encourages all clients considering freedom camping to visit the website of the Freedom Camping Forum and adhere to the motto 'Assume nothing - always ask a local'

More info: Freedom Camping Advice

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