Flights, the getaway begins
59 live-verified fares, every leg ≤29h with bags included — your booked Etihad ticket floats on top with the 🎫 badge.
Type the shortest and longest trip you'd accept — fare options outside that range step aside.
Each option below shows only its price until you tap it — then it opens with the full timeline, cancellation terms, and a Hebrew + Gregorian calendar painting your trip day-by-day. ⭐ favorite · ⚖ Compare builds a side-by-side table · 🔗 Book searches live. ⏱ Any leg over 28h30 is hidden (your limit).
Road, home on wheels
One rental window drives everything — every camper below re-prices to it live, and New Zealand runs as a self-drive car on its own dates.
Every camper picks up at a Sydney depot. Filter by berth, company or water tank — a bigger tank means longer between refills.
Stays, your wishlist gallery
Every place worth sleeping in — your Airbnb wishlist, the Urban List, Luxury Escapes and my own research, priced on the map for your dates. Filter, ♥ what you love, and add nights straight into the trip.
🌤️ Weather
Daily high / low · °C
NZ's South Island runs coldest — snow on the peaks in spring.
Trip, start to finish
Every day below is filled in from what you've actually chosen — your booked flight, the camper window, New Zealand, and any stays you added.
The Segments layer paints the drive state by state along your hotspots — a white dot marks each border crossing, and every stretch is labelled with its km and how many days you're physically in that state (from the regions tagged on the calendar below).
🧭How to plan▾
- Drag across the days — one day or a stretch.
- Say what it is: region, activity, experience or a note.
- Set the camper and New Zealand dates from the same box.
- It re-prices itself — campers, NZ cars, stay warnings.
🗝️Calendar key▾
Road Trip Itinerary
🗓 Before you fly — what has to be booked, and what can wait
Click the card below to add New Zealand to your grand total, or leave it off for Australia-only. Prices per couple, USD. Prefer a tropical island instead? That's a separate section further down.
🚐 Australia only — no New Zealand · nothing is mandatory, click the card to add or remove it✈️ Sydney → Auckland
Round trip from Sydney — the same city you land in and fly home from.
🇳🇿 8–13 days in NZ
Spring (Oct): 6–18°C, snow on peaks, waterfalls full, shoulder-season prices.
✈️ Auckland → Sydney
Back to Sydney for the flight to Tel Aviv.
💵 Sydney round trip — $718/couple carry-on (verified 21 Jul: Jetstar/Air NZ nonstop 3h05, both legs to/from Sydney); $920/couple with 1 checked bag + trolley per person both ways. You add lodging + food + attractions over the NZ days (self-drive). ＋ Add to total
📌 Pre-filled to the best fit for your selected flight. Pick new dates (or type a number of days) and the teal NZ window repaints on the trip calendar and every total updates.
🚗 Car rental — required for the South Island
No camper here — you fly into Christchurch (via Auckland) and self-drive the loop: Christchurch → Lake Tekapo → Aoraki/Mt Cook → Wanaka → Queenstown → Te Anau → Milford Sound. An SUV handles the alpine passes comfortably in spring.
🏔️ The Lindis — Ahuriri Valley
A striking lodge alone in a vast alpine valley — mirrored glass pods under the southern stars.
🔗 Book direct(NZD $2,000)
🌌 PurePods — glass eco-cabins
Fully glass cabins alone in the landscape — fall asleep under the stars, totally private.
🔗 Book direct(NZD $650)
🛶 Blanket Bay — Glenorchy
Legendary lakefront lodge at the head of Lake Wakatipu, framed by the mountains of Paradise.
🔗 Book direct(NZD $2,200)
🧖 Matakauri Lodge — Queenstown
Luxury lodge above the lake with Remarkables views, 7 minutes from Queenstown.
🔗 Queenstown live availability(NZD $1,800)
This is an alternative to New Zealand above — picking an island replaces NZ in your total (you get one after-Australia trip, not both). ✏️ Every island is editable — set your own resort nights and hotel / Airbnb nights and the breakdown recalculates live. Click a card to add it; click again to remove it.
🧳 Island estimates assume a standard economy fare with 1 checked bag + carry-on trolley per person — not the cheapest “Lite/Value” fare. Add $40–60/bag if you pick a bag-free fare.