Travel time question for the South Islanders

[BarBender]

The best tool to use for trip-time estimates is wises.co.nz - it has a really accurate time and distance estimator.
If you want to use a non-direct route, use maps.google.com because you can grab the route with the mouse and click and drag it. Also, you can zoom in and use the satellite view to see exactly what is where. It's very good.
Steve

Good call
Just tried maps.google.com and its brilliant.

well we used to do queenstown -christchurch all the time in the car when we lived in queenstown, that was 5.5hour trip. wanaka would be a little less as you dont have to travel the 40min to queenstown.
up the west coast can be slow, lots of campervans! we did it in april in a car, qtn-hokatika, i think it was a good 7 hours. then 2+ over to christchurch
so maybe 10 hours wanaka -chch via the coast.
west coast on a bike is fun! we did westport to chch via the arthurs pass in 1 day no trouble.

Yeah dont think Id be keen to do the West Coast run in a car. Bike would definitely be the goer. Cheers for that.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Travel time question for the South Islanders

Further back in time you go the less traffic on the roads, however go back to far there will be no roads so try the dirt bike...