Our experience through Share a camper was generally very good.

It was cheaper and much more choice of vehicle and rental location than the regular companies and we felt that as it was a camper belonging to a person who used it it could be more relied upon to be properly equipped. We had a greater choice of places to rent from as the owners were widespread thoughout NZ.

We rented a kiwi style mitsubishi canter based coachbuilt from Wellington. We had a great time in it. We were aware that NZ had had a poor summer so we chose Wellington so that we could make a decision whether to stay North or go to South. We decided to explore South island and then go back to North but ultimately found so much to do and see on south that we didnt get back to north until the last day.

The upsides of our choice were that it was very well equipped,it had the NZMCA book in it, we had so much solar we didnt have to worry about plugging in even once, there was more than enough bedding, towels kitchen kit etc. They also included Road User Charges up to 5000kms, which we found out other hirers had been surprised by. And as it had the NZMCA wings on we were able to talk to the local motorhomers and gleaned lots of info ( there seems to us to be a bit of emnity between the locals and all the hirers). The pickup and handover was easy and there were no hidden extras.

The downside was that because we chose an older vehicle it was a little slower and noisier and less well insulated than a german one would have been but hey it was less than half the price.

Reviewed over 3 years ago and experienced in February 2017