New Zealand travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for New Zealand, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in New Zealand: Queenstown, Auckland, Rotorua, Fiordland & Milford Sound, Wellington.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Routine vaccinations up to date
Emergency number
111
Care for visitors
Excellent and cheap
Excellent, and unusually generous to visitors: the ACC scheme covers everyone in the country, tourists included, for treatment of accidental injury regardless of fault or nationality. Illness is not covered, so insurance is still worth having.
The weather in the mountains is the hazard. There are no snakes and nothing venomous worth worrying about.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in New Zealand
QueenstownNew ZealandThe adventure capital, ringed by mountains and lake
AucklandNew ZealandA city built on fifty volcanoes, with an island ferry from the bottom of the street
RotoruaNew ZealandGeysers, boiling mud and a smell of sulphur, in the centre of Māori New Zealand
Fiordland & Milford SoundNew ZealandSheer black walls dropping into deep water, in a place that rains two hundred days a year and is better for it
WellingtonNew ZealandA harbour capital wedged between hills and sea, with the best coffee and the worst wind in the country