Wicked experience

We shopped around the many campervan hire shops in Auckland to find the best deal four our 5–week tour.  We were expecting NZ to be somewhat cheaper than Oz but it wasn’t to be and ended up picking a smaller but cooler van from Wicked, a company famed for their expletive spray paints.

Having seen hundreds of wicked vans in Oz, most of which were shit heaps, we were cautious and wanted to see the van before we handed over our hard earned cash.  Wicked wanted us to pay a $200 deposit over the phone to reserve one, but if we weren’t satisfied upon collection we would loose our deposit – yea right!.  They were closed on the Saturday and Sunday so we took a chance and headed out of town to their depot with our rucksacks in the hope that they would have one ready for the off.

They hadn’t but we only had to wait a few hours for one or two to be returned and would get the opportunity to choose.  When you book over the phone one is reserved and that’s yours, like it or lump it!  The first one returned was Elvis, wow, this is cool and not too outrageous like ‘Farmer Sutra’ we seen which had a farmer performing a number sexual acts with sheep in all sorts of positions – cool but not for us…

We are delighted and think we’re rather cool driving around in our Wicked camper, it’s comfortable and a pleasure to drive and as for Elvis, well, say no more. All vans come with some slogan on the back, ours reads ‘The cost of living hasn’t affected its popularity’, boring but somewhat true.  We will make a point of adding some pictures of other Wicked vans en route.

No doubt you’ll be sick of seeing pictures of Elvis over the next few weeks so we’ll just add these few for now.

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5 Responses to “Wicked experience”

  1. emma says on :

    Hay that camper van is so cool!
    When are you seeing linzie? x x

  2. Del says on :

    God that Takes us back!!
    So wish we were there with you!!(please read previous comment!!)x

  3. Hollie says on :

    hehehehehe i can tell you guys are in nz by seeing that sam needs to wear a warmer top :) yup, spring is usually very cold in the morning and hot during the day… makes for very confusing times when dressing ;) it’s been very very cold down here over the last 2 days, if you end up going round the east coast u will find it’s nice and warmer (vineyard area :P ) cool camper by the way! is it wicked that do the camo ones aswell? juicy car rentals are bright green! have fun, see u both monday!!! xxx

  4. Hollie says on :

    autumn***** my bad! i was like, spring? but there is no lambs!!

  5. Leanne says on :

    Hey guys, love the wicked blog article – do you mind if we link to your blog from the Wicked Campers NZ website?

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