Frommer's New Zealand (Complete Guide)

This guide has virtually ZERO information pertaining to travelers who are more outdoorsy, and is useless to hikers and campers/campervanners. It's also heavily skewed towards more luxurious (re: expensive) travel. No camping recommendations. No recommendations for hikes. No mention of the incredibly famous Great Walks. How did Frommers even publish this thing? People go to NZ for the outdoors, not for museums, and you don't need to take a helicopter tour to enjoy it, as this guide would have you believe. It reads like a guide to the UK, a place where the cities/towns are of interest, not an adventure mecca like New Zealand.If you are an elderly traveler, or traveling with very small children, or accommodating a physical disability, and therefore want to spend your time on paved roads (and/or inside museums and restaurants) as part of organized tours, this is a fine guide. If you are a healthy, able-bodied adult who wants to see New Zealand for its most outstanding qualities (the outdoors!) this guide is of practically no use. The only positive thing is that what recommendations they do have for hotels/restaurants seem helpful and are much clearer than other brands of guides I've used.

This book it great! It has everything from different types of road trips, 3 day, 7 day and 2 week trips. Family trips, solo trips, friend trips. As well as individual tips and info about all over New Zealand!

It was particularly helpful given we were on cruise and had to decide whether or not to book a tour off the ship. Before arriving at each port, we looked at our options in Frommers. Saved us money.

I travelled in a camper van and stayed in Holiday Parks. This book does not provide the information I required. Look for a book that lists many cheap places to eat, grocery stores and holiday parks.

Excellent book with many travel tips. It also comes with a medium size fold out map!

Wonderful guide.

Reasonable book but I expected more information.

Very informative

Frommer's guides are good to give you ideas and recommandations for hotels and restaurants, but not too practical and too big to use as a guide on the street. Info on tourist attractions is limited and there are no pictures. Nice pocket map at the end though!