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Blenheim Slideshow
Top Hotels in Blenheim
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Scenic Hotel Marlborough Blenheim
14 reviews -
Chateau Marlborough Blenheim
128 reviews -
Copthorne Hotel Marlborough Blenheim
51 reviews
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Middle Park Motel Blenheim
11 reviews
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St Leonards Vineyard Cottages Blenheim
55 reviews
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Timara Lodge Blenheim
5 reviews
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Uno Piu Homestead Blenheim
5 reviews
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Marlborough Vintners Hotel Blenheim
92 reviews
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Criterion Hotel Blenheim
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Ashleigh Court Motel Blenheim
8 reviews
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Blue Ridge Estate Blenheim
10 reviews
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Brydan Accommodation Blenheim
90 reviews -
Hotel d'Urville Blenheim
71 reviews
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Knightsbridge Court Motor Lodge Blenheim
43 reviews
Blenheim
Travel Blogs from Blenheim, New Zealand
Wine and chocolate
This is a top pick! We went for a change of pace in Blenheim and kicked back for Marlborough region wine tasting. After the torrential rain the night before we woke up to gorgeous sunny blue skies, and it was actually warmer than it's been in a while. It was a really nice ...
Malborough's Wineries...hic....
This is a top pick! ... this wouldn't be a problem, there would surely be no trains at night. We'd only seen one train whilst were were in New Zealand....and we'd spent the entire day following this particular line up the coast. WRONG! At first I thought it was an ...
Swimming upstream
This is a top pick! ... and over hasn't been fun either. I've felt like I've been wasting time and money when I could be out doing whatever I wanted around New Zealand, but I haven't left because I know I'll need to work at some point and just want to get it out of the way ...
Down Time
This is a top pick! ... of the chimneys; over a river and past wetlands; through vineyards and beside farms with sheep or cows. It was my first real glimpse of New Zealand's scenic beauty, and I can't wait to be able to travel through more of it and even hike some of it. I spent ...
Waiting
This is a top pick! Sorry for the lack of entries, but there's really not a ton to update about at the moment. I moved to Leeway's Backpackers, which is resoundingly better than Arrow. Aside from the facilities just being better in general, the staff is friendlier and the ...
Northward Ho!
This is a top pick! ... been working until they have enough to go and do something, and doing something until they need money and have to go to work. New Zealand is fairly reasonably priced, if you really know what you are doing. Eat from the supermarket, stay with friends in ...
I just want to bang on my drum all day
This is a top pick! ... and I was named the best Big Buck Hunter out of the group. Afterward we had a mad midnight ride on curvy mountain roads back to Blenheim, with most of the van "singing" (I use this word in its loosest sense) their lungs out. Monday I am going to be ...
Sour Grapes
This is a top pick! ... the loss of my camera have combined with the antsy feeling I got from sitting around waiting for work for a couple of weeks to turn Blenheim's taste sour to me. I think I'll probably leave after this week and get on with my getting on. We'll see how some ...
Resting
This is a top pick! ... stuff and vice versa, so we stayed a couple of nights. Nothing of much note happened other than we rested up, although I did buy a new camera to replace the one that was stolen. That means more photos, but probably not for a while until I find a place to ...
The grapes of wrath
This is a top pick! ... thought I said it was my birthday. After clarify the subject, everyone in the room had a good laugh. And that is why I'm liking New Zealand better than Thailand at the moment: that's the largest example of a language barrier from my time here. On a random ...
Shame about the weather
This is a top pick! ... (which is being v temperamental). Are a bit lost when its raining but have a productive afternoon and then make decision to drive to Blenheim again as there is a Dominos pizza there (sad I know, but they are only 6.95 each with a voucher we have which ...
Kiwis and mussels
This is a top pick! ... The birds are bigger and faster than I'd expected, flitting about from bush to cover at a great clip on their stick legs. New Zealand's national symbol, besides being flightless, has the distinction of nostrils at the end of its beak. In the building's ...
Blown All The Way To Blenheim
This is a top pick! ... electrical tape and hoped that it would last! Luckily the wind stayed with us and the tyre held on, meaning that we reached Blenheim by 3pm. Time for a leisurely bike round town to find a new tyre before heading to another Top 10 Campsite where we were ...
A bit of a tramp
This is a top pick! ... have to book up months in advance to take a shot at one. It's called tramping. I should probably point out here that New Zealand tramps don't sleep under bridges drinking paint thinner and smelling of wee. A tramp in these parts means a hike and there ...
Veni, Vidi, Vintner
This is a top pick! I headed for Blenheim for one thing only, wine tasting. The Marlborough region is New Zealand's premier wine making region and I wanted to give it a go. Within 2 hours of arriving I was on a mini bus with eight others, we had to pay for the mini bus ...
December Already - Blenheim
This is a top pick! ... down some steps just off of the highway and there were several seals basking on the rocks! (what a country huh?!). We arrived in Blenheim and camped under a busy road and train bridge, but by the side of a beautiful river, we had ducks and ducklings ...
Sammy The Seal.....
This is a top pick! ... they have got the tours and tourism down to a pretty fine art So, off we went again, left kaikoura and headed north, got to Blenheim and found a campsite, turned out a beautiful evening, sunshine!!!! A pretty rare sighting so far in the south ...
Eine Woche nichts tun ist vorbei
... nur wegen dem Kicken, aber ich muss erstmal ein bisschen Geld verdienen und dann kann ich bestimmt auch hier in Blenheim spielen. Das war alles ein bisschen ruppiger aber sie meinten ich wäre trotzdem jederzeit wieder willkommen. Am Freitagmorgen habe ...
Never enough wine tasting
... 't want to leave. After a brief stop at a roadside shack to split a crayfish (rock lobster), we sped onwards toward Blenheim. Unfortunately, Speed Racer here got pulled over. The very friendly policeman (yes, even the cops are friendly) explained to me ...
Het land van de wijnen, Marlborough
En als je er dan toch bent, dan maar even proeven ook… Het is allemaal niet ver van het dorpje en ziet er sjiek uit. Lange rijen wijnranken, afgewisseld met grote gebouwen waar fabrieken achter schuil gaan. Wij zijn gaan kijken bij Wither Hills, ...
Blenheim - Picton
... but the name Blenheim has always conjured up a very historic and conservative place in my minds eye. A far cry from what Blenheim, New Zealand is actually like. Granted that we'd not spent that long here but I was still pretty much convinced that I'd ...
Saying goodbyes..
... evening called around to the backpackers of Cecile and Nacho and gang to hang out with them both before they were to leave Blenheim.. Cecile to go work in Akaroa (the french settlement town about an hours drive from Christchurch that is in a beautiful ...
kayaking
... , just a stop for coffee and pie! and a wander round the cathedral and town, then onwards over yet more lovely hills to reach Blenheim. Which winery should we try? Cloudy Bay seemed the natural choice , and so good it was. we came away with a bottle and ...
Three Jews and Three Dutchmen Walk Into a Bar...
... , we disembarked and I caught a bus to Blenheim, which was in the heart of the Marlborough Region— the Napa Valley of New Zealand, if you will. Blenheim. Hm. It's a quaint town, but not quite as charming as many of the others I've seen. I lugged my ...
The Road South
With reluctance we left the top of the South and headed for the West Coast, stopping at Murchison on the energetic edge of the Buller River. Lack of day light and hungry children called for a stop at a campsite that straddled a cemetery and thanks ...
Beeping sheep
... us). Along the road we have been beeping at all the sheep and cows we see and given that there are more sheep than people in New Zealand this makes for a lot of beeping as we listen to more classic hits like When You're Gone by Bryan Adams and Mel C. ...
On Yer Bike
The next day Ben had found the only other reason to get Sharon back on a bicycle: wine! We were doing a vineyard tour by bike. We were collected from the campsite and driven to the company's base up in the vineyards. After being provided with bikes (plus ...
Thinking......
We headed back to Blenhiem for another week of work. By Wednesday though we had have enough of fruit picking and by that point we had swapped supervisors from a lovely lady to a stupid lady who treated us like toddlers. We looked else where for work ...
Land of the Wine!
We have arrived in Blenheim, Marlborough Wine Region.... the wine capital of NZ. The weather was a bit gloomy this morning, but the sun is now out and the sky is lovely and blue again. we have just booked out Ferry crossing for Fri 2 March at ...