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My wife and I, along with another couple will be traveling to NZ next April. We would appreciate any guidance regarding flights etc. Flying out of Memphis, Tn or Little Rock would be no problem. Also could fly to Greenville, Ms. to Dallas. | ||
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New Zealand hosts many hunters from overseas every year, mainly Americans, so you will be in good company. Most hunters go to the South Island in which case I suggest booking flights direct to Christchurch International Airport. If you are hunting mainly, or first, in the North Island book direct to Auckland International Airport. It's not unusual to hunt both North and South Islands on one trip. Flights between the two are numerous and no more than two hours apart at most. Several airlines service New Zealand but Air New Zealand is always a good choice going direct from several USA airports. They hardly ever fail to run on schedule. Just a matter of comparing fare costs and schedules and making a decision. The outfitter you book with will also have suggestions. I'm sure you will enjoy hunting here as the tourist hunting industry is quite well organised. Hunting.... it's not everything, it's the only thing. | |||
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theres a direct flight starting in November Auckland to Denver and return. When you get to NZ most provincial centres are serviced by regular flights from Auckland , Wellington or Christchurch. There are two main airlines - Air New Zealand , and Qantas on the main routes , plus the worlds worst airline Jetstar whose record of cancelling flights at zero notice has to be seen to be beleived. Several smaller commuter airlines also service outlying areas. Its a small place so driving to your destination might be an option too ________________________ Old enough to know better | |||
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Good advice there to avoid Jetstar. They are a dismal failure. Badly disserviced twice by them so no more Jetstar, ever ! Hunting.... it's not everything, it's the only thing. | |||
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H K...I've flown to the South Island a couple of times out of Memphis then to LAX and Air New Zealand to Auckland. Domestic flites to Dunedin and Christchurch after Auckland. Now there are Air New Zealand direct flites from Houston too. Air N Z was enjoyable to travel with...I will use them again someday. If you fly out of LAX make sure you allow plenty of time to make your transfer from the domestic terminal to the international terminal.. I predict you will have big fun in NZ! Z | |||
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or avoid LAX altogether if you can ________________________ Old enough to know better | |||
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We fly into Christchurch landing in business hours, ring the motorhome company and they fetch you from the airport, get the motorhome paperwork done and "get out of Dodge". We were there during earthquakes once so have grown an aversion to sleeping in Christchurch under concrete. We go to Hanmer Springs (hot pools, good indian restaurants and motorhome park) I would then go across Arthurs Pass to Greymouth, or across Lewis pass to Westport (?), then down the West Coast (Hokitika, Franz Joseph, Fox Glacier). I recommend the helicopter flight that lands you on the glaciers. Down to Haast and onto the lakes (Hawea, Wanaka etc) To Lake Wanaka and Lake Tekapo (Stone Church, Collie dog statue, hot pools, ice scating etc. Then onto Queenstown (Gondola restaurant, skiing, jet boat rides, steamship ride to sheep station up the lake). Down to Te Anau (look for elk & moose heads in the pubs) onto Milford sound (through the Homer tunnel) Boat cruise up the Sounds (must do it one day) drink at the MS pub. onto Invercargill (Burt Munro's "world fastest Indian motorbike at Hayes Hardware store) Dunedin, Omaru, Timaru (home of Phar Lap - world famous Australian racehorse...that the kiwis claim ...... on the flimsy evidence of him having been bred and foaled there) Be on the lookout, during your travels, as there's lots of gunstores. Museums for everything. Usually Planes and Cars. Kiwis are great people. The food and grog is good and the scenery is absolutely amazing. They are very focused on tourism and extracting money from tourists. Don't worry about the cold in wintertime.....the car/motorhome has a heater and Hunting and Fishing will sell you Polar fleece clothing sets that take care of the cold. New Zealand will get into your blood .......... and that's before you consider that there are critters in those mountains that are worth hunting. Sorry for the long winded reply......but it's a topic I'm passionate about. I do not work for the N.Z. tourism board.......although that's how it would appear. | |||
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Hanmer has been hit by earthquakes in the last couple of years too ... http://thewireless.co.nz/artic...r-springs-earthquake ________________________ Old enough to know better | |||
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Summed up very nicely. Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002 | |||
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Great summary mate. If you are hunting and bringing guns, please note change of rules. You CANNOT bring guns in and get permits at the airport any longer. You need to do this 1 month in advance. https://forms.police.govt.nz/f...visitors-application NZ is very hunter & gun friendly. The rules are simple and the people looking after the process are friendly & helpful. No handguns. Wish you a great trip. BTW, NZ does not have a tipping culture! Now I have stirred up something!   "When the wind stops....start rowing. When the wind starts, get the sail up quick." | |||
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The vile slag we call Prime Minister, has make it quite clear she is anti gun, maybe Trump could ban all imports from New Zealand until our game animals herds are treated with more respect and Police and told to leave gun laws alone. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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It a sad day for NZ when our tolerant society changes to the hateful and polarised one Trump is creating. In the 26 years I have been in NZ our society has become more tolerant, inclusive and integrated. It has grown by 35% - mostly through immigration from around the world. In that period NZ society has declined in health care, public housing, freedom of press, child poverty, wealth distribution etc. Jacinda Arden is trying to address those critical areas that have been neglected for decades. It is my honest opinion as a hunter and gun owner that those social issues for my kids & grand kids (of the future) generations are far more important than guns and game animals. I am happy with gun laws now. I can own any kind of gun I want & I can hunt anything I want as long as I can afford it. The wealthy top 1% will want to control all land, big stations, public access to hunting etc. The giant feedlot farm planned for the high country is a disaster for NZ farming and for the economy and the environment. Yes a very few will get very rich, no doubt. They will claim that they are doing the rest of us a big favour!
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Naki: aren't you and "import" too? George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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George -every one who lives in New Zealand is an import. The first humans to settle here migrated here from elsewhere - out of the south Pacific - so there are no truly indigenous people here at all. We are all the descendants of migrants - Naki is part of the later wave of them , thats all. Unlike the USA , where there was a long-established population of people with several thousand years of residency. Unless you are a near full-blooded American Indian you too are the descendants of migrants ________________________ Old enough to know better | |||
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If we could no longer own firearms and/or hunt what reason would there be to live for??? As for your comments about farming, you cearly have no idea what you are talking about. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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Are you sure that these two points are not cause and effect? Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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A very salient point Frank! Posts: 87 | Location: Victoria Australia | Registered: 07 September 2002 | |||
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And before you calls you a racist Trump support, maybe he should stop and think about living in a country that was stolen from the native people by the evil British. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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Doesn't that apply to both our countries? Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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 well played."Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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