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Hanmer Springs Slideshow
Top Hotels in Hanmer Springs
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Heritage Hanmer Springs
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Greenacres Chalets And Apartments Hanmer Springs
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Hot Springs Motor Lodge Hanmer Springs
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Alpine Lodge Motel Hanmer Springs
20 reviews
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Larchwood Motel Hanmer Springs
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Village Lake Apartments Hanmer Springs
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Hanmer Springs
Travel Blogs from Hanmer Springs, New Zealand
Hanmer Springs
This is a top pick! ... that night and we woke up to be frozen in. We eventually got out and off to the Alpine Hot Pools. The Hanmer Springs Thermal Reserve offers hot pools of various temperatures bubbling away in the middle of the mountains. Surrounded by ice and snow, ...
Ice Cube, Pancakes, and a long drive
This is a top pick! ... you are treated with an explosion of water. It was great, and we got wet but it was worth it. After our time there we pressed on to Hamner Springs by way of a 4 hour drive (already travelling 3 to get here) meaning it was a hell of a long day ...
Springtime
This is a top pick! After Kaikoura, we headed to Hanmer Springs, a small town with not much there but thermal pools, which we took advantage of that evening. We spent a couple hours relaxing in naturally-heated hot tubs (and came out smelling of rotton eggs (sulfur)). The ...
The morning after the gimp got shitted
This is a top pick! ... to the i-site to lost property – maybe there was a ‘Kate’ who was missing it. The drive to Hanmer Springs took us along part of the Alpine triangle and we arrived in Hanmer to find it surrounded by more snow capped mountains ...
From One Extreme to the Other
This is a top pick! About 15 minutes down the road from Franz Josef, the clouds cleared and the remainder of the journey to Hamner Springs was completed in glorious sunshine. As usual, we paused at a number of scenic spots along the road for photos. A few swift stops were ...
Selling the Van
This is a top pick! ... time at the Lewis pass. Arrived for lunch at Hamner Springs a gorgeous Alpine village surronded by pine forest. Sunday 14th December Hanmer Springs has a great thermal pools complex which only cost 10$ to get in. Must be 15 different pools of all ...
Banks Peninsula to Lewis Pass - Day 273
This is a top pick! Left Christchurch this morning and headed to Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula. The Landscape of rolling green hills on the peninsula is a carbon copy of the Peak district close to where I live back in the UK. This brought my thoughts to home for a while. ...
MPEGS Road trip day 2
This is a top pick! ... have to sleep in the Big Fella but at least she can run around a little. Once we are settled and sorted we head to the Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools & Spa to chill out and relax as you can see from the pictures. The hottest spa is 42 degrees so we spend ...
Hanmer Springs
This is a top pick! ... even go punting on the river Avon. This is Cathedral Square were Christchurch Cathedral and the Millennium Monument stand. Hanmer Springs was our next destination. This is an example of the scenery along the way. Hanmer Springs is ...
The Resting Place
This is a top pick! ... pools back home too so we're no strangers to them. Montagu Springs is very much a Cape Coloured institution but Hanmer Springs is different. They have lots of different pools, some with different temperatures, others with different water sensations with ...
1 2 3 Bungee
This is a top pick! ... , no rush about the morning and didn't leave the campsite until ten o clock, and only a short journey ahead of us to Hanmer Springs, where we were headed with the intention of visiting the hot springs/thermal/ spa area which is normally the primary reason ...
Hanmer Springs, Kaikoura und Christchurch
im eher kühleren hanmer springs angekommen...man merkt dass man bereits etwas südlicher und somit kälter ist....und zudem noch in der höhe. wunderschön von bergen eingerahmt. und die hotpools sind fantastisch (-teuer)....mit becken in allen ...
in search of the holy grail (pitch n putt)
... and we weren't sure how far we'd be able to get, both pretty tired so decided to stop off for the night in hanmer springs - a decision heavily weighted by the fact that danny had discovered there was a pitch n putt golf place there (he'd been obsessing ...
Hammer Springs
We went to Hanmer Springs for the famous hot pools there. It's a tiny town & we were staying in the local hostel which was really small. It was like a wooden lodge with one small fire in the dining area and there was frost on the ground! It was freezing! ...
Relaxation, mmmm
We arrived in Hanmer Springs at lunchtime after a much brighter morning's drive. Hanmer Springs is on a geographical fault line and has experienced many earthquakes, sculpting beautiful landscape and leaving geothermic pools bubbling in the hillside. The ...
Heading to Hanmer
With plenty of time on my hands to head up to Auckland for my flight to South Africa, I decided to detour to Hanmer Springs. Hanmer is famous for its thermal pools so I thought i'd have a relaxing few days chilling by the pools. Arriving at lunchtime on ...
Natural Springs
... got to learn the words to oasis' album 'masterplan' and the new keiser cheifs one very quickly! we stopped over at the small natural springs hostel, where we paid around 12 quid each to park our van and have use of the springs until noon the next day. me ...
Mad amount of wind
Went out lamping (shooting at night with a torch) on my own for about an hour then noticed the wind chance and a chill start, I could feel some sort of storm coming from the south and it had been such a calm sunny day. I started to head back towards the ...
Week 3 at Avonvale Farm
... some leaves that are blocking flood gates of water from the hills, moving stuff, cleaning equipment, moving sheep or cows around to new paddocks. Quite often we have to go out checking the sheep that are lambing and look out for any problems they are ...
What a way to relax!
We left Kaikoura behind and took the Lewis Pass towards Hanmer Springs. As we turned into the Lewis Pass road we passed a herd of cows with their calves. What we saw made Paul & I glance at one another with a burst of laughter as Paul quickly turned the ...
Day off work
Was going to go to the hot springs in Hanmer today but decided as it was such a nice sunny day we have a lay in and potter about the cottage oh and play with our pet lamb and give him a wash in warm water. We did plan to go on a walk in the afternoon but ...
Hot Pools at Hanmer Springs
We don't have any pictures of Hanmer Springs because we spent all our time there in the hot pools. We got a voucher for a free adult entry to the spa with our van rental which was great. There's not much to say about the spa really. It was lovely and ...
Rainy day on the farm
Me & Louise tended to the calf's together, then before lunch Louise went back to the farmers house with his wife Nicky to sort out lunch in the warm, whilst I went out to help cover some straw in the pouring rain with the others it was raining so ...
On the run!!!!!
We left Blenhiem really early to make our way to Hanmer Springs. Driving through beautiful south island mountains as the sun raises over the sea. Most of the road was costal so we saw so great views. As we headed towards Kiakoura we stopped as we saw ...
Lakes, Gorges and Hot Springs
... ones who love it here! Recharged, we continued down the highway, past the mammoth Buller Gorge, and onto our next destination, Mauria Springs. This Japanese-run thermal pool and bath house was a wonderful treat. For a mere $15 USD we treated ...
More of the same
... double checked, only to realise that I had been misreading the name of the town as Hammer Springs! Deciding not to stay here, I left Hanmer Springs and headed back to a place I had seen on the way to spend the night, in a forest in Balmoral Reserve, ...
Hanmer Springs
... hills the harbour really did look nice and I couldnt help but silently curse the notorious and changing New Zealand weather. Still, the drive to Hanmer Springs turned out to be lovely in the autumn sun. We arrived mid afternoon but by then ...
A Hammer has never felt so nice
Hanmer Springs - thermal springs, wonderful steam room Drove to Kaikoura, watched sea ...
Feeding Calf’s and shifting Straw
Started our first day at work by learning how to take care / tend too / Rear the Calf's (baby cows) how much & what type of milk to feed them, how to sort there bedding, water, other feeds and checking for general health. This was really fun and good ...
Feeding Calf’s & herding sheep
... to which is really fun but you have to be loud and confident. Really amazed with myself to be standing in a field in New Zealand, sun shining, beautiful scenery, whistling a dog to help herd 200 odd sheep whose lambs will make their way to Waitrose in ...