Personally I prefer Lonely Planet. Sure everyone has one - but it caters to
a wide range of interests; well researched and revised regularly . It is
usually very accurate as to 'how to' and 'when to', tho' prices can be out
of date!

You can buy a Vodafone NZ sim for $25; with $15 credit as I remember (fill
in a questionaire - post it in get $10 extra credit - total $25 credit).


"Hallvard Tangeraas" wrote in message
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I'll be needing a guidebook of some sort when travelling around here
in New Zealand, but which one?

Everybody else has Lonely planet, and in Australia I bought "Let's go
Australia" to have something different.

Which one is best?

I plan to travel around in the less touristy way if it doesn't prove
to be too hard. I'm not really a person who joins organized tours and
the like, and would need a book that gives more "local" information if
possible (i.e. local buses as opposed to guided tourist buses to get
to places).


Hallvard