Blog Posts
Day 4 of 97 Matt and Sarah reach the North of the North
First update from Matt and Sarah, from Tapotupotu DOC, on their long 97 Days in a Piwiwiwi Hi-Ace adventure around both North and South Islands. “This is an awesome beach and campsite, we were over looking the beach for 2 days/nights, the surf here is great for beginners and has enough to keep […]
Piwiwiwi Campervans Winners of Supreme Award
PiwiWiwi, the Raglan-based campervan rental company, has this week gained high acclaim. The tiny company has won two major awards: ‘Best Campervan Rental Company in NZ’ and ‘Supreme Winner’ for the transport category in the Rankers Awards. The awards are based on independent reviews, and PiwiWiwi beat opposition from all […]
PiwiWiwi Surf Campervans NZ on the cover again!
[singlepic id=353 w=250 float=right] Us being rated second on the Rankers review site has made front page news. In Raglan at least! Read the whole article here. Book a van here. Review us here. Stay happy, surf lots, Niall 🙂
Charity Auction and Gig
Our friends at ‘Tusk and Horn Wildlife Trust‘ are running the Auckland Marathon in amazing Elephant and Rhino suits. Sunday 1st September they’re having a fundraiser here in Raglan. There will be bands, a cinema showing documentaries about the African Elephants and Rhinos they’re hoping to save. There will also […]
PiwiWiwi Reviewed Second Overall for Customer Satisfaction
Reviews area great way of checking what you’re buying. From something small all the way up to the holiday of a lifetime, reviews help you get a feeling before committing. Rankers is an independent review site for travellers in New Zealand. It collects reviews from visitors like you about what […]
TED Happy Planet
A website we here at PiwiWiwi Surf Campervans NZ love is ‘TED‘. It has videos of talks by intelligent, positive people on a wide range of topics from society and the environment to exploration and art. It even has some talks about the future of car rentals! The talk I […]
Just another perfect day on our NZ campervan roadtrip
Highway 72 Tuesday 18th June 2013 – day 13 of our South Island roadtrip. Woke up in Amber Holiday Park in Christchurch – an oasis of calm in the middle of the city. After a lazy start to a sunny day, making full use of the facilities (hot showers, dump […]
2013 Winter New Zealand Campervan Roadtrip Begins
Finally we got our things together and headed off for our long anticipated winter trip to New Zealand’s South Island. First stop Wellington, no messing around! We have roughly 2 months and no particular itinerary. If you’ve got any suggestions of places we shouldn’t miss then leave us a comment […]
Amazing Rainbows
[singlepic id=346 w=200 float=right] This morning the surf didn’t look worth the paddle but I wasn’t in the mood to face the computer. So I kept on along the coast and was greeted by this amazing show. A squall blowing in off the sea producing a fabulous, intense rainbow. As […]
Word Cafe Raglan 2013
Word Cafe 10-11 May 2013 Raglan Readers and Writers Festival “An exploration of words, ideas, imagination and fun, set against the backdrop of one of New Zealand’s most dramatic west coast towns”, in their own words. My own favourite wordsmith, Antonio Te Maioha will be performing at the Word Cafe […]
