Campgrounds are friendly, reasonably priced and clean. Most have hot showers, group cooking facilities, laundry rooms, fish-cleaning areas, playgrounds and other amenities. In Rotorua, look for spring-fed hot tubs. The refrigerator in the van may have an empty milk bottle. You turn this one in when you buy milk so that you don't have to pay a deposit on the bottle.
Cities are a lively blend of old and new.
They have campgrounds as well as a range of hotels, parks with walking paths, excellent restaurants and shops selling New Zealand art and crafts. New Zealand is also bustling with export-minded entrepreneurs. We've met Kiwis marketing everything from computer software to potato chip factories in China. Miscellaneous Nice Things Christchurch covered in a glowing froth of azalea blooms. Emerald green hillsides with the first hundred sheep or so.