This was really helpful! Thank you!!

Not everyone has a 3 D printer.

What cellphone esim did you go with? I'm going to be there for 23 days

Use Waze for a driving app- It shows you the speed of the road as well as your speed. It will also show any police that others have marked and you can mark too. Good video- we are about to go to NZ and this will be a first for driving on the left of the road.

Thanks for another great video!

What an awesome quick, but thorough setup! Thank you.

Hi, do you have anything for just the base game? I love the design

Thank you for the information, very helpful! :]

Thanks for this! From the US. My only worry still is driving through Auckland... am i going to have a hard time? Driving through the countryside doesnt scare me, but auckland Im a bit worried about.

Now we need your review on emerge gaming chair after one year.

This is a need

funny how your expectations are for huge Hot pools huge glowworms etc etc Not all places to visit are american huge ...I was expecting more from your pronunciation especially of Taupo...talk about butchering it

I have 12 days in NZ next month, looking over my plan and comparing to all the places I want to see, it's still nowhere near enough time!! I see a lot of people taking close to a month to properly see both islands.

Youre going to return ot bc its difficult to open due to strong magnets? Toughen up buddy

Aoteoroa actually has a really high road death rate. It is around 30% higher than countries with similar populations e.g. Finland, Norway etc. The arrows painted on the roads are because of the high number of head on crashes sometimes caused by overseas drivers driving on the wrong side of the road however overall most are caused by Kiwis who are terrible drivers compared to Europeans. The higher speedo reading has been common on Japanese, European and Sth Korean new cars for some years now. Interestingly my 1 year old Chinese MG4 EV shows the exact speed so I have to be careful after years of knowing that I can be 4 kph over.

For the same reason nz has so many two lane roads. Cost. Nzs land area is roughly the same as the UK with 1/12th the population. Nz is also geologically very active and very hilly. The cost of constructing dual carriage ways and two lane bridges particularly in rural areas is way beyond the means of both our territorial authorities and or the central govt. Fun fact the us offered to both four lane state highway one and double track our main train artery after the 2nd world war. We refused. Nz did however modify the us army corps plans to create the southern moterway into auckland. The modifications included stupidly shortening the on and off ramps thus contributing to aucklands traffic woes😂

for those happening across this vid in the future and are also confused by the dashed yellow vs solid yellow lines: dashed yellow means those already engaged in an overtaking/passing maneuver may continue the overtake but cannot initiate one during the duration of the dashed yellow lines. The uploader is correct regarding solid yellow lines: no passing (if you're caught overtaking when your side of the road has a solid yellow, expect a pullover and on-the-spot ticket)

3:56 the arrows on the road are simply to remind tourists to drive on the left, nothing to do with lane marking

Auckland is my home town but i moved to the south island about 5 years ago. During COVID Auckland CBD all but died so unfortunately you caught it in a rut, i was an awesome city to grow up in and the suburb's are still cool but probably hard to do on a tourist time frame. food culture here is strong if you go to the smaller places, we just dont have need of a 200 seater, there's a few big places that seat like 100+ and we have Denny's too but when you go in to a place and there's only 2 or 3 tables full it gives a bad vibe, thats why they do the 20 - 30 lay out to use the space better, also hospitality businesses rarely open on a Monday Tuesday as they are just too quiet, its the start of the work week, people dont have time or money that side of Wednesday for much. highly recommend Asian food in NZ its pretty good we have a lot of immigrant communities here that have recent roots which ads to the authentic taste, of course we also have really good American style Chinese food too. supermarket snacks are pretty average over all, we used to have a few cool brands, or at least they seemed cool when i was a kid, but yeah those cookies need to be dunked in either tea or milo or they are utter trash, cookie time cookies are faaaaaaaaaaaar superior.

If I could advise anyone on a tour of NZ, I recommend driving up or down the Haast pass in the rain to transit the West Coast to the Southern coast, or vice versa. And drive both coasts in full. Perhaps also make time to hike overnight into Welcome Flat Hut just south of Fox Glacier. And the Coromandel Coast...

Sounds very much like you went to Aotearoa expecting to be critical. Most of the world is not like "murica, thank god.

You would be surprised at how many tourists cause major accidents. Tourists complain about the roads not being very wide and the curves they freak tourists out we have long debated about tourists driving here great reaction 😊

How do you get that color variation in your resin pour?

Most vehicle manufacturers set the speedometer to read fast...it covers their ass...imagine if they read slow, they would be getting sued all over!

One lane bridges won’t be replaced anytime soon , in fact they’ve become a bit of a cultural thing now , just slow down for them , enjoy the view and give the oncoming driver a wave😊

As a New Zealander, why do we have to worry about an Americans prospective. If they don’t like how we drive, then they can go home. As I have driven in right hand countries as the Philippines. The Americans are frequently trying to change other peoples driving systems and habits. I don’t really get concerned about what American driver’s think, as I said why not go home and sort out the many problems they have there.

No overtaking on any yellow lines broken or solid, Cheers 👍

ive lived and worked in Germany, UK, France, Cyprus and New Zealand. Food cost is about the same in all these countries and none of these countries tip. Americans have much cheaper food, but probs make up difference in price by tipping.

The speedometer thing is done by all manufacturers. Not distinct to NZ. Also the dotted white lines do not mean it is safe to pass. It means you can, if safe to do so and if you have 100m clear of oncoming traffic once finished the maneuver.

North American drivers just need to learn to relax. Passing in NZ is generally a waste of time. The is always a truck / van / camper / flock of sheep or herd of cows not far ahead. The time saved by passing is almost always imaginary. The guy got just passed was probably local and turning off sooon anyway. The 30kph speed limit in roadwork zones is actually a good way to avoid shredding your car with freahly laid road chip covered in tar. Plus you're less likely to fling chip into the window of oncoming cars and breaking their windscreens It took me a few years to adjust to NZ roads.North Americans tend to have poor impulse control and struggle to adapt to a more relaxed - but certain mode of car travel. The Interstates in the US reward driving that,, in NZ, can get people killed.

Kiwis generally do not package or label their food products so that visiting Americans can understand it. And yes, things are different in NZ than in USA (the difference is the thing).

Yellow center lines are something I never really thought about but I can understand what you're saying. It makes sense. Most roadside signage follows international standards so why not road markings. I wish we drove on the left so we could import US cars.

Great summary of NZ driving. A handy but little known fact about the plastic markers along the side of the road: when driving at night on back roads, the white reflectors on the markers on the left side of the road indicate the road ahead turns to the right. The yellow reflectors on markers on the right side of the road indicate that the road ahead turns to the left. Takes a bit of getting used to reading the sharpness of corners, but it's quite handy once you know how to interpret what the reflectors are showing.

Tasty is the brand of the cheese and as a Kiwi living in the US for nearly 20 years I do miss Tasty cheese Nothing in the US compares to it Another I miss is Vintage cheese Much nicer than any American brands I have tried

MMM... camper vans are a nuisance... Most speedometers read a little bit fast...the auto radars on the roadside are pretty accurate... good way to check your speedo error. A lot of the one way bridges are very old and are often replaced with better ones as they finally wear out. The gas pumps have a little latch you have to engage. Glad you enjoyed my pretty country, and managed on our roads. Driving on the opposite side than you are use to is tricky... 🙂

Well done, I think a very fair assessment. The speedo on your rental should be about 7% over-reading like all the cars in NZ, who would now why they do it but they do !. Glad you enjoyed it, Cheers Worm.

You know how you are sure someone weren't lying that they drove a lot in NZ? Their hatred of Jucy vans.

The Juicy van is not stupid, it is annoying.

Once you've driven in NZ you'll merge like a zip every time forever more.

An answer about corners in areas which you couldn't do the speed limit: I don't know if you saw the yellow signs indicating turns all had numbers under them! This indicates a safe speed to travel around the corner. So while we won't be going the speed limit per say, we've got a fair idea of the speeds at which we can talk corners

South Island is known as the MAINLAND.

Nice video, much appreciated. I'm heading to NZ for 5 months starting in November, so videos like you are a nice way to bridge the gap.

In NZ the open road speed (highway) is 100km/hr for light vehicles, if you are driving with a trailer of some description or a truck (4ton or heavier) the speed limit is actually 90km/hr

The rule "drive according to the condition" overrules speed zones. Also, the 5-10km over the limit is know as the tolerance where the police will only issue a warning not a ticket.

At last, a seemingly polite, quietly spoken , intelligent American person. They are few and far between as tourists in my experience.

If you are concerned about phone plans while in NZ, if your phone is not network locked, you can buy a pre-paid sim at almost any supermarket for most of the local networks, and pay for 'top-ups there too. You can get local data rates MUCH cheaper than the American roaming specific plans, and many of the big providers offer included spotify or free social media data, but you'll be paying more for international texts and calls... Based on prices from 'Skinny' (probably the best pre-paid plans), $27NZ gets 4GB data, or $40 will get you unlimited data.

Speaking of water quality; A lot of tourist spots, public parks, road-side rest stops where there are toilets, i sites (tourist information sights) and the like, have a water fountain for refilling bottles, and it's almost always filtered. It typically is nicer than the local tap water, but a lot of larger districts have rather good quality tap water.

Yellow = do not cross the line White = you may cross the line to pass So therefore if there are only two lanes, of opposing direction traffic, the centreline must be white to allow passing.

Whaaaat!! No fish'n'chips? Our national dish!

At $2.50 litre Nz that equals $6.68 U.S. a gallon. 4.5 litresper imperial gallon