Hippie Camper Hire Australia

Hippie Camper announced as exclusive campervan partner for 2012 Splendour in the Grass Festival! In the spirit of peace, love, great music and accommodation for all, Hippie Camper has been announced as the exclusive campervan and motorhome hire partner for the 2012 Splendour in the Grass festival (July 27-29) and to celebrate there´s a great special on offer! http://www.hippiecamper.com/media/Splendour_in_the_Grass_partners_with_Hippie_Camper26042012124351.pdf

If you are near Brisbane for the Easter Long weekend and want to do something check out Easterfest 2012!! Held in Toowoomba (127km west of Brissy)from the 6th of April- 8th April this 3 day event is so much more than your average music festival, with live acts, tonnes of food options, artist signing, meet and greets and talent comps held bewteen 2 locations - Park precinct as well as the City precinct. For more information check out www.easterfest.com

The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) has a great line up of things to do and exhibitions on this Month. With the MONA markets on every Saturday on the rooftop- you can get your hands on locally grown fresh organic produce and see unqiue arts and crafts which have a dash of quirkiness that is expected with MONA. MONA is located at 655 Main Road , Berriedale, Tasmania and the markets are open every Saturday afternoon from the 21st of Jan through to the 14th April - 1.30m - 6.30pm - Best of All admission is Free - www.mona.net.au

A big Welcome to the newest member of the NZ Hippie Family - The Hippie HiTop! With the success we have had with the Hitop in Australia we are pleased to offer the Hippie Hitop as a part of our New Zealand fleet from 1 April 2012. This Toyota Hiace model comes fully equipped with all living equipment, bedding and linen and is ideal for 2 people – and also has room for a child (8-13years). With a comfortable and functional interior, spacious dining and sitting areas and plenty of storage the new Hippie Hitop has the great functionality and reliability that you expect with Hippie!!

This is the biggest competition we have had ever! The Ultimate Motorhome Holiday Competition is offering Monthly Prizes - $50 Amazon.com vouchers plus a grand prize of an Australian Motorhome Holiday valued up to $25,000 . With A massive prize pack with 5k worth of flights included why not try your luck and enter today! All you need to do it submit a blog, video or post promoting the Motorhome Experience in one of the countries we operate. This is open worldwide which means anyone can win! *Terms and conditions apply Click the link above for details on how to enter

Our Hippie Camper "Get Refreshed" competition has now closed and a winner will be advised this coming week. We had some great entries from people telling us where they would take our new "refreshed" Hippie Campers on a trip. Thanks to everyone who entered and stay tuned for the winning announcement! Keep up to date with new comps, stories and events with the Hippie Camper Facebook page

Last Sunday the Hippie Gang from our Head Office in Brisbane, Australia went out to Grantham QLD, to volunteer for the Grantham Flood Recovery efforts. Leaving at 7.00am on Sunday morning – large coffee in hand, they drove out our new Hippie Campers to Grantham which is about 1 ½ hours West of Brisbane. After a few slight hiccups with the GPS we found our way and arrived in Grantham to start the day. This year Australia was hit by a once-in-a-life time flood event and no town suffered more than that of Grantham. Casie, who organised the volunteer work here and heads to Grantham from Ipswich (40minute drive) every Sunday to help, showed us around the town and explained just how badly they were affected. They were hit by 3 waves of water from 3 separate directions and the devastation this caused is still apparent as you go down the main street. Some houses are now completely gone while others sit the same as they have since January. We got to work shovelling mud and rock from the inside of what used to be a hardware shop and helped disassemble a house which will be rebuilt somewhere else. It was a humbling experience and the efforts that Casie and her team put into the recovery is a true testament to helping your fellow man – Something that Hippie Camper is a great supporter of!! We encourage all Hippies young and not so young :) to get out and volunteer for such a great cause!! For More information or to register for a volunteering session Contact Casie on lockyervalleyfloodrecoveryvolunteers@hotmail.com (half day 9-12pm or full day 9am -3pm every Sunday). See the pics from our team on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HippieCampers

This year Australia was hit by a once-in-a-life time flood event and no town suffered more than that of Grantham. A good Hippie parties hard and then absolves himself by giving back so in keeping with this philosophy Hippie Campers is sending a troupe of staff to Grantham to help the Lockyer Valley Flood Recovery Volunteers. We’d love to encourage our customers to volunteer too! So if you find you have a spare Sunday and want to earn some sweet karma points and give new life to the devastated town of Grantham email Casie at lockyervalleyfloodrecoveryvolunteers@hotmail.com. We hope to see you there Hippies!

Have a Rad Hippie Camper Roadtrip? Taken lots of photos? Want to win some awesome prizes? Why enter into Tourism Australia´s " Nothing Like Australia" campaign!! You simply need to upload your holiday photo experience and share in 25 words or less why there´s nothing like Australia. You could win a share of over $300,000 in prizes courtesy of Luxury Lodges of Australia and Qantas Airlines. You can even nominate up to 5 people who you would most like to take away * with you by creating an Aussie Holiday Dream Team We´d love to see your Hippie Pics up there so get cracking! http://www.nothinglikeaustralia.com.au/index.htm

Hippie has had an exciting past few months and to top it off we have been announced as a finalist for the Best Car / Camper Rental Australia award at the “The Golden Backpack” awards for 2011. “The Golden Backpacks” reward companies who work hardest to make backpacking around Australia & New Zealand that extra bit special. They are a bit like the backpacker industry version of the Oscars, but are driven by votes from you, real travellers. This is key as who else knows our product better than the people who are in them! This year, our hard work and all your support has paid off! With our new “look and feel” and brand new vehicles with extra features being built every day it’s a very exciting time for Hippie and we are honoured that has been recognised! This is Hippie’s second year running we have made the cut and the team would like to thank all those that have voted and supported us over the years. The winner will be revealed in Sydney in October and while a win would be amazing it’s great to be recognised and placed in the same ranks as the top companies out there!! Peace!