Whakatane Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

i drove from rotorua to Whakatane (prononced ****-a-tane) where i walked around the town and then it finally became sunny and stopped raing for more than 5 minutes for the 1st time in a week so i sat by the river/beach and did some reading. i met auntie sally here and we then drove to Ohope beach about 10km down the road and set up camp in the b...

Ummm - sure the email from my dad said they were arriving - oh well !!!!! try and find them tomorrow when they get in from Hong Kong. Had a good walk along the river game of mini golf a new zealand ice cream - perhaps four times bigger than anywhere else in the world. Then meandered our way up to Hot Water Beach

White Island is NZ's only active marine volcano. It is situated about 75 km off the coast from Whakatane on the North Island. This is one fo the few tours I did while in NZ and it was definitely worth it. It was about a 2hr boat ride there, we had a guided walking tour, then had lunch on the boat and came back. They mined sulphur here back about...

Back on the road! 24 hours later and with $500 less in the pocketbook, we were on the road again. It turns out the distributor shaft went and took out the whole distributor with it. That would be why the car wouldn't run. Rotorua is not a great place. Actually, Rotorua is a frikkin hole. Our hostel was large, dirty and un-welcoming (sorry Base)....

The first spot on the Bay of Plenty that I stopped at was Whakatane which was a quaint little peaceful town on the natural harbour at the mounth of the Whakaten River. After having a walk through town I drove out to the beach where there were a few sufers carving up on the small waves I arrived into Ohope Beach 7km east of Whakatane and into qui...

We spent a couple of days in Auckland as we passed through on our way back South from Northland. We ended up in a campsite right next to a motel that we'd stayed in a couple of years beforehand. At least this time it wasn't raining (not all of the time). After deciding again that we weren't that taken with Auckland, we headed off to the beach. W...

My final stop before Auckland was Whakatane. Pronounced FUK-A-TAH-NEE but some people seemed to call it WOK-A-TAH-NEE. I still don't know which is correct. It's a problem that will plague me for the rest of my life. Or perhaps until I leave NZ. Whakatane was to be my first experience of couchsurfing - a network of people all over the world who l...

Mick, our driver, collected us for a tiki tour of Rotorua near a church and marae near the lake where there are heaps of steam vents. The lake itself can be quite dangerous if you get caught out there. If the wind is strong if is hard to swim ashore as the swell doesn't give you a chance to breathe. A lot of houses have steam baths next to their...

We arrived in Whakatane (pronounced "fa-ka-ta-ne")in the early evening to meet Lou Lou's friend Toni her husband John and two of their three children Awatia and Tama. They have just moved back to the area after living in Australia for a few years and so were staying at her sisters house, Bonnie. Bonnie very kindly stayed at a friends house while...

Next we headed down to Whakatane via Mount Monganui... Mt Monganui was a pretty cool little place with a great beach and good places to eat and drink ... and obviously a big hill (or mount), which gave some decent views, although made less good by the howling gale and rain which started just before we got to the top ! Early the following morning...