{"id":6213,"date":"2018-03-27T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expedia.com.sg\/stories\/sim-card-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T20:02:10","slug":"sim-card-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expedia.com.sg\/stories\/tips-inspiration\/sim-card-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"What SIM Card to Buy in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re having tea in a hobbit hole, telling Frodo your tales of whale watching, glacier hiking and epic road trips past many a volcano. But&#8230; pics or it didn&#8217;t happen, amiright?<\/p>\n<p>Posting your amazing selfie in exotic locations is a pretty integral part to any holiday these days. More importantly, Google Maps is a travellers best friend when you\u2019re frequently exploring new corners of the globe.\u00a0So having a chunk of data to use is very useful, and buying a local sim card when you land is a good way to avoid the huge shocker of a bill from data roaming charges.<\/p>\n<p>There are of course other options, like a good roaming plan, or renting the internet device, or relying on your hotel WiFi or hunting down free WiFi spots in the city. But for all who prefer the reliability of a local SIM card, you get constant good connectivity and peace of mind that you have enough data to last the trip.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve picked out some of the best sim cards to get when you travel in different cities. This one is for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.com.sg\/Destinations-In-New-Zealand.d133.Hotel-Destinations\">New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What SIM Card to Buy in New Zealand<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20661 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.com.sg\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sim-divider-1024x52-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"52\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.com.sg\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/22-SIM-cards-1.jpg\" alt=\"New Zealand\" width=\"1200\" height=\"794\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best SIM:<\/strong> Skinny<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Price:<\/strong> AUD $2\/ SGD $2 empty SIM. Top up with credit.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Other popular Telcoms<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Alternatives:<\/strong> Vodafone, Spark and 2degrees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best place to buy:<\/strong> Order online and pick it up at any supermarket, stationery, electronic or other major chains<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 475.4px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 105px; text-align: right;\"><strong>Trip<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 142px;\">2-5\u00a0days<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 72px;\">10 days<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 132.4px;\">&gt;3GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 105px; text-align: right;\"><strong>SIM Card<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 142px;\">Skinny<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 72px;\">Vodafone<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; width: 132.4px;\">Skinny<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro-Tip: Skinny has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skinny.co.nz\/pricing\/databinge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Data Binge<\/a> system where you can get unlimited data usage for a selected duration.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re having tea in a hobbit hole, telling Frodo your tales of whale watching, glacier hiking and epic road trips past many a volcano. But&#8230; pics or it didn&#8217;t happen, amiright? Posting your amazing selfie in exotic locations is a pretty integral part to any holiday these days. More importantly, Google Maps is a travellers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.com.sg\/stories\/tips-inspiration\/sim-card-new-zealand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What SIM Card to Buy in New Zealand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,14],"tags":[607,406],"authors":[24],"class_list":["post-6213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","category-tips-inspiration","tag-sim-card","tag-travel-kit","authors-expedia-globetrotters","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What SIM Card to Buy in New Zealand - Expedia SG Stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.com.sg\/stories\/tips-inspiration\/sim-card-new-zealand\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What SIM Card to Buy in New Zealand - Expedia SG Stories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You&#8217;re having tea in a hobbit hole, telling Frodo your tales of whale watching, glacier hiking and epic road trips past many a volcano. 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