About New Zealand

As a travel and tourist destination, New Zealand in the South Pacific has a lot to offer with holiday accommodation in special places such as Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf, with beautiful beaches and countryside that is still off the main tourist route.

New Zealand is also home to the Lord of the Rings films which were filmed here and was jokingly awarded a "Best Supporting Country" Oscar after The Fellowship of the Rings.

There is hotel and motel accommodation in interesting cities like Auckland with its Sky Tower and Viaduct Basin, Rotorua with boiling mud pools geysers world class flyfishing,flyfishing vacations, lake, fly and trolling easily accesable. Queenstown the adventure capital of the world with it's mountains and winter festival. Then of course there is Wellington the real capital city of the country and Christchurch the Garden City of the South Island. They all offer accommodation and tour options to suit most budgets.

New Zealand has fantastic scenery ranging from snow covered mountains for winter sports, white sandy beaches on the Pacific coast, to mysterious fiords on the Tasman coast. If you are wanting accommodation for a New Zealand holiday or New Zealand vacation so you can relax on a beach, climb a mountain or you are just looking for that South Pacific paradise New Zealand has the accommodation for you.

This site contains New Zealand travel, accommodation, car rental and tour information with a travel map showing the main islands of New Zealand and more detailed travel maps of the Hauraki Gulf, Waiheke Island and Great Barrier Island. There is information about hotels, lodges, motels, bed and breakfasts, home stay and apartments in the main tourist towns and cities, plus of course those special places.

NZ is situated in the South Pacific ocean, between latitude 34'S and 47'S. The country runs roughly north-south with mountain ranges down much of its length. Its two main islands cover 266,200 sq km (103,735 sq miles), about the size of Japan or California and slightly larger than Great Britain.