Taupo Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

Hi Everyone, We left the South Island on Wednesday morning to fly up to Auckland in the North Island. Boarded the plane for the one hour flight only to be told that one of the engines would not start and we would all have to get off and wait for another plane. Dread started to set in that we would be stuck in the airport for hours but they had ...

19th Jan 2008 This morning I did a self walking tour around Rotorua visiting the museum and government gardens, there were even people playing croquet! in the gardens. I then walked down and along the lake front visiting the Tamatekapua meeting house and the St Faith's Anglican Church which combine the Anglican and Maori traditions before headin...

wellll.. my extended week in Tauranga has come to an end. I'm both sad to leave the people there and happy to have a new beginning (yet again) out here in Taupo. I'm really glad to have gotten to know some new friends at Harbourside, but I had no intentions of staying for very long, and I kept on putting it off. it's all about your comfort zone....

We left Whitianga on Thursday morning and headed for Rotorua. Stopped off first at the Glow Worm caves - Whaitamo. The caves were fairly impressive - bigger and deeper than those in Clare, but the glow worms were the really cool bit. It was like looking at Delhi from the sky.....but the other way around. There were hundreds of tiny glowing dots ...

Only sixty kilometres along from Mount Ngauruhoe we have brilliant sunshine and we can look back across Lake Taupo (one of the best places for trout fly-fishing in the world) and now see the mountain we had to forego. Though we have now failed in our quest for the One Ring to Rule Them All we entertained ourselves by taking an afternoon out on h...

off here today once we've been zorbing - three girls and one bucket of cold water rolling down a hill in a massive plastic ball. should be interesting. i'll upload any good pics of bruises..... update: had a trip to the hospital first. lucky bron and james work there. helen had hurt her thumb either kayaking or rafting and wanted to get it check...

I'd rearranged the time of the jump for 9am this morning but with that time coming and going and the clouds staying it was another waiting game all morning. As if testament to New Zealand's unpredictable weather the sky was again clear come 12pm. The skydive was a go. Arriving back at the skydive Taupo centre I was introduced to my tandem jump g...

Just a quick entry to say that I'm safe and sound. Its been really fun travelling around with my group.. fitting in lots of walks, sights, and good food (BBQ, steak etc)! But unfortunately, it IS winter in NZ and despite being psyched up by Claire and Beth from the group, I can't go skydiving because of the weather conditions. In fact we are cur...

Had a disaster couldn't get on bus too many people and not enough seats! Katie and I had no choice but to go straight to Taupo as no other public buses running as whitangi Day. Met a very kind lady when we arrived who decided to take pitty on us carrying our backpacks and gave us tour of town in car and then dropped us off at backpackers. As we ...

Mmm, this was a bit of an odd one... One evening in between the rain showers and without any real reason why, Herdy challenged me to do a bungy jump and skydive the following day. Very stupidly I agreed to it ! Anyway, I did the bungy, which was not necessarily something I'll be rushing to do again (although from the amount of cash those guys mu...