Auckland Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

Or so we thought...took off early in the morning and wound around and through the main highway interchange while heading to the southeast part of the city. The roads here could not have been layed out any worse and driving through them was an exercise in just getting toward the general direction you were trying to go. Walking made it easy to cut...

Before returning to Auckland today, we passed several small towns with the Magic Bus. Amongst them also 'Paeroa' which became famous because of the lemonade 'Lemon & Paeroa' (which these days belongs to the CocaCola company). I kind of like this drink. But we didn't do any stops anywhere (except for short toilet stops). And then I suddenly w...

Saturday 15 November, 7.22am, my hotel room I love this waking up naturally early every morning lark, the whole day stretches out in front of you and you don't even feel tired. It turns out that even if you bring sunblock with you all the way from the UK, if you don't actually apply it to your body, you will still burn. Good intentions will not ...

When we started drawing up our list of places to visit, I have to be honest, adding in New Zealand wasn't really my doing. It's not that I didn't want to visit it but it can be a bit of a put off when you hear 'oh it's like England, but a bit nicer'. And it's not that I don't like England, far from it, but it's not really an exotic or edgey trav...

We love to hear the people speak here. They are really nice folks. They think we are a bit funny. Especially when we order tomatoe sauce for our french fries. (Ketchup? they look at us like we are from another world). We went to Takapuna Beach today and thouroughly enjoyed the after shower humidity by the ocean. It cleared up quite a lot and the...

Not one New Zealander we have met on our trip round New Zealand has had anything good to say about Auckland. 'It's too busy' and 'driving is a nightmare' were two complaints repeated over and over by the Kiwi's. We thought that it was a place that would be busy for New Zealand and having been in the monstrous cities of china it would be no probl...

22nd to 25th Feb 2008 The last few days in Auckland have been relaxed, mainly round the shops and pubs as the weather was not very good - heavy rain and windy. Not much else to add to this blog. Later today I fly to Santiago, Chile for one night then fly back to Easter Island. Cheers, Duncan

Flying from Chile to New Zealand presents an interesting effect. We took off at 23:00 on the 23rd and land at 4:00 on the 25th; no Christmas Eve for me. The flight is pretty uneventful with everyone trying to adjust to the time difference. On landing the airport is deserted as one would expect on Christmas Day morning. A few hours later I catch ...

On their first day in Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, Colin and Melissa didn't know what to expect. Melissa, in order to keep her Visa in check, needed to travel to some other country before returning to Australia again. This was an excellent excuse to visit her niece Shawna (aka DecemberChick on this very blog) who was currently stay...

Hello!! Al got bored of lying on a beach so we have brought our stay in Fiji to an early finish and have moved onto New Zealand (him having an 'upset stomach' didnt help!!) We landed in Auckland this afternoon after a flight from hell....the worst turbulance we have ever felt...and the airhostes dropped a whole jug of milk on the guy infrount of...