BUG New Zealand

BUG New Zealand (second edition) is a brilliant travel guide for anyone backpacking around New Zealand. It concentrates on giving honest and detailed up-to-date information and more in-depth reviews of backpackers’ hostels and youth hostels than any other guidebook. The guide also has comprehensive information on activities, sights and budget travel options.

BUG New Zealand (second edition) concentrates on the information that independent budget travellers really need. The guide doesn’t include information on motels, hotels and five-star resorts, giving more space for really detailed reviews of more hostels than any other guidebook.

So whether you’re boarding the sand dunes of Ninety Mile Beach, cave tubing in the Waitomo Caves or if swimming with dolphins tickles your fancy, the BUG New Zealand (second edition) guide is the book to take you there.

BUG New Zealand (second edition) features:

• in-depth reviews of virtually every hostel in each destination
• BUG’s exclusive star rating system to help you find a great hostel at a glance
• extensive information on getting around by air, bus, car, ferry, train and thumb
• expanded coverage of the most popular destinations
• detailed coverage of activites such as sailing, surfing and skydiving
• 63 maps

Most travel guidebooks don't give you the information that you really need

Most travel guidebooks try to cater to everyone. They list fancy restaurants and posh resorts and also provide information on cheap hostels and everything in between. The problem with this is that you're left with a bulky guide that is full of mostly irrelevant information. Furthermore, most of the information you really need is left out to make room for more reviews of places you can't afford.

BUG is different. It is a guidebook just for backpackers -- young independent budget travellers just like yourself. You won't find any fancy hotels in a BUG guide, just backpackers' hostels and youth hostels, and lots of them. In fact, every single hostel that is open when the book is being researched is included in the BUG guide and the reviews are more detailed than you would find in competing guides.

With more detailed reviews of more hostels than any other guidebook, BUG really is the Backpackers' Ultimate Guide.

Here's what the press say about BUG guidebooks:

"this guide is packed with useful information and its thorough accommodation reviews and new hostel star rating system make it easy to choose where to stay, ... This guide is well writtenb and well researched"

The Observer (UK)

"For any student lucky enough to be able to afford a holiday to New Zealand, I would definitely suggest this no-nonsense guide to backpacking."
UCE magazine for students, Birmingham, UK

"... its strength is its entries for backpacker accommodation and getting around by public transport"
The Dominion Post (NZ)

"For anyone who has waded through the screeds of type in some guidebooks and cursed its irrelevance and useless extra weight, the BUG guides will be a welcome breath of fresh travel air"
The Press (NZ)

Details

BUG New Zealand (second edition)

Tim Uden

BUG Backpackers Guide

208mm x 121mm

288 pages

63 maps

paperback

April 2005 (UK), May 2005 (rest of the world)

ISBN: 0 9581796 3 8