Great place to travel... expensive place to live!

My time in New Zealand has been incredible! Across both islands there are incredible places to visit - Abel Tasman National Park, Queenstown, Milford Sound and Bay of Islands being a few. Due to the number of things to see and activities to do; saving up a lot of money is strongly advised!

Auckland itself is a nice city with everything that you need - bars, restaurants, cinema etc. However, the cost of living in Auckland is unbelievable! It is extremely expensive for food (even when purchasing the value branded products) and for alcohol ($13 for a jager bomb in one of the main student bars!!!!)

Although it is expensive, Auckland is a perfect place to base yourself in order to travel the north island as you can visit almost all of the key locations via bus.

AUT is a great university with a really nice campus located in the city centre. The staff are friendly as well as helpful and the work is relatively straight forward (business classes).

Overall, I would thoroughly recommend AUT due to the university being a nice place to study and the city being a perfect location to base yourself if you want to travel New Zealand.