Last minute trips are what I get really excited over, and I planned this short trip to New Zealand with my family about a month before we went. However we didn’t finalize any of the details until about 2 days before our flight. My family is very much accustomed to this type of craziness, but fortunately with all the resources available on the internet it’s not difficult to figure out where to go and what to see. Our flight departed San Francisco and we arrived in Auckland about twenty minutes early. It took nearly two hours to get out of the airport, to claim our bags and get through customs processing and the strict agricultural checks when entering New Zealand.
There are numerous multinational car rental companies operating in New Zealand, however we decided to rent our car from Omega Rental Cars which is a very popular New Zealand rental car agency. After a five minute shuttle ride to the rental car office, we got settled into our car and my husband quickly got used to driving on the opposite side of the road (this being the 2nd time he had done this).
This is what we were able to do in 3 days….
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