About Velvet Fox and how we research

Velvet Fox is an independent New Zealand travel guide for people who want the good stuff without wading through forum threads from 2014. Road trips with real drive times, campervan rules explained properly, the activities worth paying for and the ones you can skip.

Researched by the Velvet Fox team

We check prices, rules, dates and track times against official sources (DOC, NZTA, Immigration NZ, the operators themselves) and date-stamp them on every guide. If something has changed, tell us and we will fix it.

How we research

Official sources first. Rules, fees and track times come from the Department of Conservation, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, Immigration New Zealand, the Ministry for Primary Industries, councils and the operators themselves. Every guide lists its sources at the bottom.
Everything is dated. Prices change, so we say when we checked them ("as at November 2026") and show a last updated date on every guide.
No made-up numbers. If we could not verify something, it is not in the guide. Where we estimate (drive times from mapping data, for example) we say so.
Real photos. We use free-licence photography of the actual places, credited on each page. No AI-generated images.

Spotted something out of date?

Tell us. We would rather fix it today than have you turn up to a closed track. Get in touch.