Make the most of your time in New Zealand with these essential arrival recommendations.

What you need to do when you arrive in New Zealand.

• Everyone travelling into New Zealand needs to complete a New Zealand Traveller Declaration (NZTD).
• There are some items you have to declare if you're bringing them into New Zealand. 
• You must answer all questions in your declaration and produce your identity documents.

AfteProviding items meet biosecurity requirements, you do not have to declare your clothing, footwear, jewellery, and toiletries – these are regarded as 'personal effects' if they are intended solely for your own use.

Please have any purchase receipts available.

You must declare or select ‘Yes’ in your New Zealand Traveller Declaration if you are bringing into New Zealand:

• medicine – over 3 months' supply, or medicine not prescribed to you
• restricted or prohibited goods, for example, weapons, indecent publications, endangered plants or wildlife, illegal or controlled drugs
• alcohol – more than 3 bottles of spirits (not exceeding 1.125 litres each) and 4.5 litres of wine or beer
• tobacco – more than 50 cigarettes or 50 grams of tobacco products (including a mixture of cigarettes and other tobacco products)
• goods obtained overseas and/or purchased duty-free in New Zealand with a total value of more than NZ$700 (including gifts)
• goods carried for business or commercial use
• goods carried on behalf of another person
• cash – NZ$10,000 or more (or foreign equivalent), including travellers cheques, bank drafts, money orders, etc. 

If you fail to declare restricted or prohibited items or make a false or incorrect declaration in your New Zealand Traveller Declaration, you could face a $400 instant fine.

Afterr clearing passport control and collecting your baggage, follow the appropriate lanes through biosecurity screening.