Big Little Campers vs Apollo

The question that usually decides a New Zealand hire is settled on both sides of this pair. Big Little Campers lists a green warrant on all three models, and thl’s booking system marks all seven Apollo categories certified self-contained; the warrant displayed on the vehicle handed over is what counts, not the model page. Liability is built alike too, charged per incident rather than per hire: NZ$5,000 on Big Little Campers’ two smaller vans and NZ$7,500 on The Biggest One, against NZ$5,000 on Apollo’s Hitop and Endeavour and NZ$7,500 on its five bathroom models under the included Low Road option.

What separates them is scale and the shape of the booking. Big Little Campers builds its three fit-outs in Auckland, runs Auckland and Christchurch only, and enforces a seven-day minimum on every model. A shorter search returns nothing. Its one-way between the two depots carries no repositioning fee, though the Cook Strait fare for the vehicle is yours. Apollo hires seven automatic diesels from three airport gateways with free same-day transfers, a NZ$270 Queenstown location fee, and one-way hires that carry a five-day minimum and directional fees of NZ$100 to NZ$300 under terms valid through March 2027.

For a route, the consequence is blunt. A trip under a week, or one finishing in Queenstown, is not a Big Little Campers booking at all — that is a scheduling limit, not a verdict on the vans. Neither fleet leaves the sealed network: Big Little Campers voids cover on five named roads including Skippers Canyon and Ball Hut Road, and Apollo bars Crown Range Road outright despite the sealed surface. Heating then belongs to the model rather than the badge. Big Little Campers fits a plug-in 240V heater to The Little One and The Big One, which works only at a powered site, and an interior diesel heater to The Biggest One; Apollo lists diesel living-area heat on its five Euro models and driver’s-cab heat only on the Hitop and Endeavour.