Customer Reviews

AA Road Atlas: New Zealand

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We've just returned from 4 weeks driving throughout New Zealand, and I can't begin to say how important and helpful this guide was. It has an amazing amount of information. All the primary, secondary, and tertiary roads are accurately shown, including many unpaved back roads that are clearly marked. Driving times given between various locations on the map are very accurate. The CBD (Central Business District) maps of all the major cities (and even some of the smaller towns) are very clearly drawn, including the locations of various ciry sites (churches, museums, parks, libraries, public parking lots, etc.). We found it especially helpful to know which streets were one-way when trying to negotiate downtown rush-hour traffic in the major cities. Outside the cities, locations where various scenes in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy were filmed are marked (if you're into that sort of thing), as well as the locations of most scenic overlooks along the highways. One thing that we didn't expect was that rental cars can't be legally driven on certain back roads because of road conditions and the risk of car damage: We were quite glad to see these roads clearly marked on the maps as well. All in all, this was the guide we turned to the most during our trip -- if you're planning on driving in New Zealand, you don't want to be without it!

This is the equivalent of the Rand McNally Road Atlas for New Zealand. I highly recommend it if you are planning a road trip through New Zealand. It helped tremendously with our trip planning. It also includes a table of distances between major cities and towns and estimated drive times.

If you're planning on renting a car in another country to do some sightseeing, I highly recommend this series of Road Atlas. I have several of them from different countries and all of them are extremely helpful when you want to make your own route for a driving excursion. It is large scale, with excellent detail on roads and routes. A must have for driving in other countries.

Everything the other reviews say is true. However, we bought it in the hopes that it would help us navigate some serious back roads on our vacation, which it doesn't do very well. It shows the location of most of them, but never with street names. So unless you know exactly where you are on the map, you can't expect it to save you if you're lost in the deep country gravel roads of New Zealand. Other than that, we did use it heavily and successfully for navigation as we drove from the very northern tip of the north island to the southernmost point of the south island on the main roads. But if you're not going to stray far from those main roads, the free maps you'll get from the rental car agency, hotels and tourist info points will do you just fine.

This is a decent atlas, but definitely not as detailed as the ones in the US. It also took 3 weeks to receive this item which was 10 days longer than the other 2 books ordered on the same day. It did arrive in the time window, but 3 weeks - I heard of snail mail, but come on!

I used this during my trip in NZ and it was great and accurate. While out there, I did not have any electronic device like a gps or a phone to rely upon. This and other maps was it but this worked great.

I'm planning a driving tour of New Zealand, and finding good consistant maps has been a challenge. This atlas is just like you'd expect - large pages with readable notations and plenty of close-up city maps.

AA road map NZ is wonderlful, its scale is very good and usful, it has got a high quality.
I think is the best option if you want to travel to NZ with fly and drive by youeself.

If you are planning on doing any driving in New Zealand this is the atlas for you. It is rather large but it makes it easy to follow the roads. I have a friend that lives there; she begged me to leave it for her.

The AA Zealand map/guide is an excellent source for all your driving & touring needs in New Zealand. Highly recommended.