Will be honeymooning for 10 days next month in New Zealand. Our plan is to fly into Auckland and to drive to Queenstown. Seeking advice/info on the following:
1) Have determined that distance from Taupo to Wellington is 385km. This is our one day with a lot of driving. How are the roads between these 2 cities? What type of average speed can we expect? This is important as we need to leave Taupo on time in order to catch the ferry to the south island.
2) What road and weather conditions can we expect on the south island? Is the weather better on one coast vs the other? What can we expect to be an average travel speed in the country side?
Any help would be appreciated as we our putting our final plans together and we know what we want to do it is now just a question of determining how long it will take us to drive between locations.
Thanks,
Dave
1) Have determined that distance from Taupo to Wellington is 385km. This is our one day with a lot of driving. How are the roads between these 2 cities? What type of average speed can we expect? This is important as we need to leave Taupo on time in order to catch the ferry to the south island.
2) What road and weather conditions can we expect on the south island? Is the weather better on one coast vs the other? What can we expect to be an average travel speed in the country side?
Any help would be appreciated as we our putting our final plans together and we know what we want to do it is now just a question of determining how long it will take us to drive between locations.
Thanks,
Dave