Skyline Skyrides Rotorua

Fairy Springs Rd, Rotorua , North Island, New Zealand - Phone: 64 7 347 0027

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  • great views, great lunch

    5

    dropbearsinnz 4 contributions Macclesfield South Australia, Australia Sep 18, 2011

    enjoyed all of it

    This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.

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  • 1

    From city to country - ahhhh

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    Left Auckland at about 10.30 am to travel to Rotarua - further south from Auckland.
    Gabrielle, Richard and Kelvin went a fairly direct route, visiting Kaimai cheese factory along the way. We tasted their cheese - they have only been operating for 4-5 years and are trying different recipes, the Cheddar was fantastic. Their soft cheeses were a …

  • 2

    Wahiao Maori Village & Rotorua SkyLine

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    This morning we went to Whakarewarewa Forest (Redwoods). We hugged the same huge tree that Stews grandparents did 5 years ago before they passed.

    In the afternoon we went to Te Whakarewarewatangaoteopetuaawahio or Te Puia village for short. Here we saw geysers that shot boiling water up to 30m. We then went to see a maori show in a …

  • 3

    Day 5 - Rainy Day in New Zealand

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    Hello

    Well today has been our first day of not so good weather. We stayed put in Rotorua for the day, it has been a rainy, yucky day. The nice thing is, it seems to rain for small spurts, followed by sunshine. We took this opportunity to spend the morning doing schoolwork with Mikkel and Zandrea.

    This afternoon, we headed out to …

  • 4

    A fun day!

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    Today we woke up at around 10 AM. We started the day by doing some schoolwork, and we did that for about 3 hours. After schoolwork, we started to plan our day. We decided we were going to drive around, and see what we would do. We left at 3 PM, and started driving around Rotorua. We stopped first at Zorb, where you go in a giant inflatable ball, …

  • 5

    Sheep, Fumeroles, Langi, and a Haka or Two

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    It's about 2:30am on Wednesday, but this is going to count as my entry for Tuesday. Why am I up at 2:30am, you ask? Well, I have discovered that jetlag trumps exhaustion. My body refuses to believe that it is 2:30 in the morning, preferring to believe that it is 10:30am.

    We are staying on a Maori Marae tonight and we all, all 33 of us, …

  • 6

    Rotorua, if you didn't know, smells

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    If someone can tell you one thing about Rotorua, it is invariably that it smells. The most common description would eggs, but for anyone who drove past Bridgewater when the cellophane factory was in operation and the wind was in the wrong direction...like that. It's not a smell I could get used to easily, and just when you thought you were getting …

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  • 1

    Ruakuri caves and Te Puia

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    ... (cheap - 50p per 1.5 litre bottle of Coke/Sprite) and an Indian takeaway which will serve as our lunch today as well (not bad for GBP8 between the two of us). Today (the 20th) is a lazier day and we may head up to Skyline Skyrides later to go on the ...

  • 2

    Bay of Islands, Rotorua

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    ... of it! We're staying at the Kiwi Paka YHA, hostel was ok, great thermal pool (38c!). OUr first day in Rotorua we went on Skyline skyrides, which was a gondola cable car up into the mountains then we went on the Luges down the mountain on various ...

  • 3

    Rotorua (via Hamilton)

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    ... in the hot water which prompted the geyser to erupt (what a shock that must have been!). Before heading out of Rotorua we spend the morning at Skyline Skyrides. We by a block ticket which covers the cable car ride up to the top, plus two trips on the ...

  • 4

    Relaxing day, apart from hurtling down a hillside

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    ... to a CD (well, Heather did - I still need to get mine sorted) and then decided to go out of town for a few kilometres to Skyline Skyrides, based at Mount Ngongotaha, where we took a gondola cable ride up to the top of the hill, had a look around a bit ...

  • 5

    Reeking Rotorua

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    ... to small and it wasn't really extreme at all !!   Not to be outdone we then headed up to skyline skyrides, which is a gondola up to a hill behind Rotorua, with 3 luge tracks at the top. This was really good fun and involved sitting on a sort of ...

  • 6

    Queenstown -> Rotorua

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    ... The consolation came for them when we promised a McDonald's breakfast the next morning. See how they looked differently between the 2 meals!! Other attractions in Rotorua: Rainbow Springs Skyline Skyrides - Gondola, Skyswing and ...

  • 7

    Rotorua "thermal city - aka natural stink bomb

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    After a huge fruit salad breakfast including yellow kiwis, our first destination is Skyline Skyrides. This involves taking the Gondola lifts (a cable car) to the top where Fergus does some target shooting using a pump action rifle. Afterwards, we try ...

  • 8

    Rotten Eggs and Secret Rainforests

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    ... they're known here) and to take out the Uggs. After that, we decided to check out the Skyline Skyrides (http://www.skylineskyrides.co.nz/rotorua/) which are in all the guidebooks and come highly recommended. You ride in these gondolas situated ...

  • 9

    Day 6 - Rotorua - Skyline Skyrides

    ... ; Dad fixed a pipe on the roof. i got on the roof 2. mum and nana sat out the front in the sun. We went to Skyline Skyrides (Gondala's). I went on the Luge 3 times on the scenic luge and 2 times on the intermediate luge. i also went on the swing ball ...

  • 10

    I'll be luging down the mountain...

    ... we decided to go out and DO SOMETHING, which isn't so easy when you're on your own. First thing we did was go to the Skyline Skyrides at Mount Ngongotaha (try saying that 5 times fast drunk) where we got a gondola to the top of the mountain. We had ...