I am visiting New Zealand for a week in late August and my wife and I would like to bring our iPhone 6. We don't need to make any calls or texts but need data so we can use Google Maps and the Internet during our stay. We'll stick with Wi-Fi when at our hotel but I would like 2GB of data while we are on the road (1GB would be the absolute minimum).
I found a 2GB plan with 120 mins and 200 texts for $49 from Vodafone. Is this our best bet? Is Vodafone the AT&T and Verizon of New Zealand?
http://www.vodafone.co.nz/travel-sim/
We've got a number of carriers in New Zealand,
Spark and
Vodafone being the biggest two followed by
2degrees and
Skinny. Spark and Vodafone both have their own networks and basically represent your AT&T and Verizon, I'd tend to say Spark are faster and a little cheaper than Vodafone but I don't keep up to date hugely––both networks have pretty much nationwide coverage. 2degrees launched a few years ago as the cheap, new, exciting network (maybe how you'd look at T-Mobile recently) but their prices aren't as competitive as they once were and their network is still being built out (they initially only had networks in major metropolitan areas and transitioned customers over to Vodafone's network but I think they've improved). Finally we have Skinny which is just a subsidiary of Spark (and the newest network, they launched in the last two years) but positions itself as the cheaper, cooler network and because they're using Spark's network it's about as good as you can get.
Take a look at the carrier's respective websites and figure out what's cheapest.
TL;DR: Skinny is probably your best bet.
