Some people like to be guided, a tour would be a good way to go if you don't want to drive. Otherwise NZ is a really easy place to tour around yourself, just search out what you want to do, hire yourself a car/bike/camper & go. Then you'll get to see what you want to, not just what the tour company goes to.
Dec-Feb it pays to book your accommodation a day or 2 ahead, more if you are fussy where you stay. Everything has a website these days so if you bring a device to surf the web on you can make up your itinerary as you go quite easily. 3 weeks is not long to see NZ though so you'll want to have a bit of a plan. You could easily do 3 weeks just in the South Is then come back sometime for another 3 weeks in the North Is.
Cheers
Clint
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