New Zealand Holiday Homes

New Zealand offers many types of accommodation for the holiday maker. There are, of course, the usual array of hotels, motels and guest houses, many of them in lovely locations. However, there is much more choice if self catered holiday homes are taken into account. These are available all around New Zealand, many of them near to beaches, and they tend to be less expensive to rent than hotel rooms. Food in restuarants is generally good and relatively cheap so why pay for hotel food when you can get better food at cheaper rates in a restuarant of your choice.

For the visitor who wants more contact with the locals the best accommodation are farm and homestays. These offer a room (generally with their own bathroom) , breakfast and evening meals in New Zealander's own homes. Meals are normally taken with the host family, so the opportunity is there to get to know some native New Zealanders and find out more about their life style, country and culture. More info: www.visitdownunder.co.uk/new_zealand_holiday_homes.htm

New Zealand Seasons

People can visit New Zealand at any season of the year although, of course, the spring, summer and autumn are the best times to go. Unless, of course, your interest is in skiing or related sports, in which case the season is late June to early November.

It's strange for people from the UK to see New Zealand at Christmas or New Year as it's bright, warm and sunny and yet there are Christmas decorations and Father Christmas effigies dressed in the familiar clothes of home. If you go at this time of the year, you'll find that the cities are deserted because New Zealanders go to the beaches for their annual holidays and nothing much happens for a fortnight or so.

Hot tip: one of the cheapest times to fly to New Zealand is the few days between Christmas and the New Year as people with families there tend to go for the whole of the holiday period and therefore get there before Christmas and come back after the New Year. So, the airlines tend to drop there prices for this short period.

The average minimum temperatures in NZ range from 10-20 degrees celsius in winter to 20-30 degrees celsius in summer. The North Island has a sub-tropical climate and is therefore warmer overall than the South Island.
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Generally, New Zealand has a moderately high annual rainfall but it wouldn't be such a lovely green country if it didn't.