New Zealand Honeymoon (Part 3) - Monetary Budget

Money is the most important factor in our life where people care about how to spend it in correct purpose. For the monetary budget of New Zealand's honeymoon, it is depending on how much spared fund you have on hand. I never ask you too spend 100% of your saving on this New Zealand trip, however, please don't keep your money in your pocket forever and try to spend it out to open your mind from travelling .

To me, I am so POOR... so I would spend my any single cent be very worth of it.

Initially, I set my budget limit as no more than NZ$4,160 and end up the actual traveling cost incurred for this 14days trips was less than my budget which was about NZ$4,000. Refer to below for the details was my initial monetary budget.

	NZ$
Air Ticket	1,550
Accommodation	430
Foods	380
Entrance tickets	860
Souvenir	100
Car rental, petrol, bus/taxi	670
Travel insurance	45
Visa for Australia	25
	4,060

To me, this was not a luxury monetary budget and I didn't said I would tortured my wife and myself during the trip. So, I still gave myself a freedom on spending some of the expenses, for example - Food and skydive.

1. Air Ticket

This was quite a high price I bought for the tickets as the cheaper budget direct flight from Malaysia to New Zealand was launched after 2 months I had back to Malaysia. The tickets I bought needed transition in Queensland, Australia, so was considered troublesome, wasting the flying time and costly. 

Based on the newly estimation after the budget airline launched, we could actually save about ZN$700 from the budget direct flight.

My advise is, try to buy the air ticket direct fly to New Zealand instead of having the transition in other countries as wasting our precious time. 

2. Accommodation

Table below is the listing which I had been stay in New Zealand and Australia:

Date	Place	Hostel	Price
Day 1	Christchurch	Dorset House Backpackers	NZD 69
	Recommended	http://www.dorsethouse.co.nz/
		stay@dorsethouse.co.nz
	Address:	1 Dorset Street, PO Box 25350, Christchurch 8144, New Zealand
	Phone:	+6433668268
Day 2	Lake Tekapo	YHA	NZD 88
		book@yha.co.nz
	Address:	3 Simpson Lane, Lake Tekapo
	Phone:	+6436806857
Day 3	Lake Wanaka	BBH - Wanaka Bakpaka	NZD 68
	Recommended	www.wanakabakpaka.co.nz
		info@wanakabakpaka.co.nz
	Address:	117 Lakeside Road, Wanaka, New Zealand
	Phone:	+64 (0)3 443 7837
Day 4	Frans Josef	YHA	NZD 83
	Recommended	book@yha.co.nz
	Address:	2-4 Cron St,Franz Josef
	Phone:	+6437520754
Day 5	Lake Wanaka	BBH - Wanaka Bakpaka	NZD 80
		www.wanakabakpaka.co.nz
		info@wanakabakpaka.co.nz
	Address:	117 Lakeside Road, Wanaka
	Phone:	03 443 7837
Day 6	Queenstown	YHA - Lakefront	NZD 81
	Recommended	book@yha.co.nz
	Address:	88-90 Lake Esplanade, Queenstown
	Phone:	+64 3 442 8413
Day 7 & 8	Te Anau	YHA	NZD 152
	Recommended	book@yha.co.nz
	Address:	29 Mokonui Street, Te Anau
	Phone:	+64 3 249 7847
Day 9	Dunedin	Kiwis Nest	NZD 60
		http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~kiwisnest/
		kiwisnest@ihug.co.nz
	Address:	597 George St, Dunedin, New Zealand
	Phone:	+64 3 4719540
Day 10	Oamaru	BBH - Old Bones	NZD 66
	Recommended	http://www.oldbones.co.nz/index.html
		gloria@netspeed.net.nz
	Address:	468 Beach Road Oamaru New Zealand
	Phone:	03 434 8115
Day 11	Christchurch	Dorset House Backpackers	NZD 69
	Recommended	http://www.dorsethouse.co.nz/
		stay@dorsethouse.co.nz
	Address:	1 Dorset Street, PO Box 25350, Christchurch 8144, New Zealand
	Phone:	+6433668268
Day 12	Gold Coast, Australia	YHA - Coolangtta	AUD 67
		booking@coolangattayha.com
	Address:	Coolangatta/Kirra Beach YHA. 230 Coolangatta Road, Bilinga 4225
	Phone:	(07) 5536 7644

Refer to the Recommended in Red colour above, those are considered not bad to stay with. Especially the BBH in Oamaru, this is unquestionably good environment and with good facilities, however, which is about 3km far from city. For your info, the price is for a room for 2 person, it will be cheaper if you get a room share with more people.

As the period I visited New Zealand was in Summer season, peak season, hence I had booked all the accommodations after I set up my Itinerary as I was worried I could not get any in rush.

3. Foods

In order to save money, we did cook ourselves in BBH/YHA; we did have good dinners outside and we prepared sandwich for lunch as well. I will share with you the foods I had taken in New Zealand in my later article.

4. Entrance ticket per pax

	NZD
FOX	99
Te Anau glowworm cave	67
Milfourd sound cruise	74
Cadbury chocolate	18
Skydive Lake Wanaka	598
	856

Skydive is really expensive, but it was worth!!!! It was the most memorable moment of my life!!! If you have enough fund, please try!!!

Except the ticket for Skydiving, I had booked the tickets for the rest in advance before I reach there. Some of the tickets are cheaper if online purchase.

5. Souvenir

Not much souvenir I bought in New Zealand ...hahah...Christchurch has quite many of shops selling souvenir.

6. Car rental, petrol, bus/taxi

Ace Car Rental was the one I rented the car for my 12 days in New Zealand. The reason I selected this company is due to I obtained some good comments from other forums on this company. To me, the service and the car quality is good, is reasonable and okay for recruiting their service, some more is cheap.

Summary of car rental for 11 days:

	NZ$
Rental 11 days @ $44 per day	440
GPS	110
Insurance	143
	693

For GPS, honestly, it is not really necessary for traveling in New Zealand as the map and direction of New Zealand is very easy to familiarize.

For Petrol consumption, is about NZ$0.20 per kilometer, travel around of south island is about 2400km for my trip.

For you information, the rental will be much more higher in Summer than the other three seasons.

7. Travel insurance 

Depend on yourself, but I would suggest to have one for our security.

8. Visa

This was for the transition in Australia. I was staying in Australia for 1 night.