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Trip checklist

Shared — anyone can tick an item and it's saved for everyone.

Booking

Both campervans booked & confirmed

Cook Strait ferry (Wellington → Picton), Nov 10 — book a daytime sailing (Bluebridge or Interislander)

Doubtful Sound overnight cruise (Fiordland Expeditions) booked

Hobbiton movie-set tour — sells out weeks ahead

Hahei Holiday Resort × 2 nights

Cathedral Cove kayak — time it with Hot Water Beach low tide

Gannet Beach Adventures (Cape Kidnappers) — books to the tide

Coastal Wine Cycles + Taupō Mine Bay kayak

Martinborough TOP 10 — small campground

White Horse Hill DOC campsite — pre-book online, sells out

Franz Josef Glacier Guides heli-hike (free weather cancellation)

Dart River Wilderness Jet, Glenorchy

Waiho Hot Tubs, Franz Josef (day 12) — one tub takes all four; small and books out, 48h cancellation

Dark Sky Project stargazing, Tekapo (weather-refundable)

Powered holiday-park nights reserved

Bookings made for everyone’s must-dos

Admin

Passports valid 6+ months

NZeTA + IVL submitted for all four

Travel insurance sorted

PLB (distress beacon) hired — ~NZ$80–100 for the trip, from the DOC visitor centre at Queenstown, Te Anau or Mt Cook. No phone reaches 111 in Doubtful Sound or past Glenorchy

Driver licences / IDP ready

Every phone checked for VoLTE — 3G is off in NZ, so a phone without it has data but CANNOT call 111. Free check: text 3G to 550 (or Spark’s IMEI checker)

Packing

Warm layers + rain shells packed

NZ power adapters

Offline maps + this site saved to home screen

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