Am I too late for a prime camping spot this summer?

Bad news if you’re still to book a camping getaway: many of New Zealand’s most popular sites are already heavily – or fully – booked for the summer holidays.

“We’ve got 49 properties around the country and they all have slightly nuanced peaks, but from Boxing Day till about the 10th or the 11th of January, you would either have to be very lucky or very flexible to get something at this point,” says David Ovendale, CEO of Top 10 Holiday Parks Group.

He says many people even book for the next year as they leave a site in January.