Sweet as, little bro is almost definitely coming so he can stack a few bits and pieces in (note to self; stop drinking all my homebrew). Cheers for the offer of accommodation on Friday, plan is to get away early on Saturday. I reckon it will take 5 hours tops, but aiming for sub 4 hours.
Haha, first year after uni my mrs(wife now!) lived in Queenstown. So every second week, 800 km after work on a Friday, back to Nelson on Sunday afternoon. Wore out 4 Goodyear NCT 5s in 8 weeks...