New Zealand Motorcycle Hire

[Bordtea]

Hi all,

Spending a couple of weeks in NZ's south island next month and interested in hiring a bike for 1 or 2 days while I'm there, probably around the Queenstown area. Quick google and I'm shocked by the prices, around $270NZD per day! (Roughly £140)

Does anybody know of any cheaper places? I don't care about having a brand new 2017 bike with 5 miles on the clock, anything post 1995 would do me!!

Cheers!
Dan

[2ndclasscitizen]

New Zealand is just an expensive country, I doubt you'll do much better. Nor are you likely to find anyone hiring out older bikes.

[patchb]

I used to live in Queenstown and never actually saw anywhere to hire a bike.

In my opinion you would be better off hiring one somewhere else, the amount of Chinese tourists in that area of Otago that end up driving on the wrong side of the road is mental!

Maybe see if there's anywhere in Invercargill that will rent one and head west into the Catlins, amazing roads and scenery and a lot quieter.

[RemaL]

As per most hire bike threads including mine for the US this year bike rental in expensive most countries it seems. Maybe apart from places like Vietnam

Over £120 for a bike bike in the US a day. I can get a SUV for £500 for 2 weeks in the past

Just to give you a example

[kingb]

I’ve just come back from a Christmas in New Zealand. I didn’t have a chance to rent a bike as I was with a group but I’d say bugger the cost just rent something!

Ride out to Milford Sounds through the tunnel! Unbelievable roads, unbelievable views!

[Berty3000]

It'd probably be cheaper to buy something cheap and then, once you take possession, put it up for sale online and try to sell it by the end of your trip.

[A993LAD]

Berty3000 said:

It'd probably be cheaper to buy something cheap and then, once you take possession, put it up for sale online and try to sell it by the end of your trip.

I think that might be a bit extreme if the OP genuinely only wants to rent it for two days .

£140 Per day for a two day rental doesn't sound expensive to me when you think about the overhead costs that the rental company will have.

Having the freedom of a motorcycle on the fantastic roads in New Zealand for two days at a cost of under £300 sounds like a bargain to me . Suck it up OP and enjoy it because as my kids keep telling me YOLO

Edited by A993LAD on Tuesday 9th January 22:57

[Berty3000]

Apologies, missed the part about two days. I want to do the same thing but for two or three weeks and was thinking of just buying one. Of course, for a few days, worth the rental cost. Would it include gear?