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Napier Slideshow
Top Hotels in Napier
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Scenic Hotel Te Pania Napier
97 reviews -
Quality Inn Napier
50 reviews -
The Nautilus Napier
120 reviews -
Bluewater Hotel Napier
15 reviews -
Tennyson Motor Inn Napier
15 reviews
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County Napier
69 reviews
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The Crown Hotel Napier
62 reviews
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Flag Inn Snowgoose Lodge Napier
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Masonic Hotel Napier
61 reviews
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McLean Park Lodge Motel Napier
12 reviews
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Bamboo Lodge Motel Napier
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Aqua Lodge Napier
4 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Napier, New Zealand
I'm gonna eat you little fishy
This is a top pick! After a long, windy and very dusty drive we reached Lake Waikaremoana. This has to be one of the more remote areas of the North Island, but the stunning scenery was well worth the journey. We packed the camping gear and set off on a four day tramp around ...
Wine and whine makes it all fine
This is a top pick! ... !) we drive along the sea front next to the grey volcanic beach. We make the brilliant choice to go into the national aquarium of New Zealand. There are plenty of fish in here, but the highlight is definitely our first sight of a kiwi, which we wait for ...
Napier...
This is a top pick! ... positive things to say about it and recommended a cool hostel to stay in. I'm looking forward to settling down now. I have been in New Zealand almost a month now and I have already nearly completed a round trip of the North Island! I am glad that I ...
Wine (and beer) tasting in Napier
This is a top pick! ... or cold in the car. So plans were put on hold for the wineries, and we went off to Cape Kidnappers instead - a place outside of Napier where loads of gannets live. We didn't get to walk all the way up to there because of the low tide, so just chilled ...
Happy Birthday To Ewe
This is a top pick! ... kind of rousing, inspirational fare . . . then again so does Mark Thatcher. We spent the special morning ambling through Napier's tackily historic streets on a self-guided walk courtesy of our Dorling Kindersley guidebook . . . and soon got bored, so ...
Leaving Lake Waikaremoana
This is a top pick! ... Napier. We had all thoroughly enjoyed the tramp around Lake Waikaremoana. There was no question about why this was one of the Great New Zealand Walks. Now that we had been hiking for three and a half days, our packs felt pretty light on our backs, ...
2$ for 3 pints? Uhhhh yeah
This is a top pick! ... of New Zealands famous breweries, Tui. We had a nice lunch stop here and came across the best deal we have found so far in New Zealand. 3 delicious beers for 2$. So needless to say a few of us were 6 deep by the time we left after an hour and that ...
Exploring North Island east-side
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Napier
This is a top pick! After Napier was destroyed in an eathqake, the locals embraced art deco to create New Zealand's art deco city. Putting aside images of New York's deco skyscrapers, Napier is a pretty town with some beautifully painted buildings, including a very ...
The heart of Art Deco, Napier
This is a top pick! ... we just missed the party. Napier has an Art Deco trust which also hosts guided walks on an Art Deco trail through Napier. Centurion Backpackers, our accommodation while in Napier, was previously the Centurion Hotel and is one of the buildings on the Art ...
Meeting Up With Old Friends From Istanbul
This is a top pick! ... , the hills eased up, and we started to make more progress after our first stop. We saw that there were two routes into Napier and took the one which followed a railway line, assuming it would be flatter. As usual when facing a long day, Mikey organised ...
Getting all art deco
This is a top pick! ... the north island that I'd missed, I hired a car with a friend, and set off to tick those other boxes. First stop was Napier, on the east coast, a town famous for its incredible art deco architecture. The entire city was razed to the ground in 1931 as ...
Napier
This is a top pick! Alex: We had heard good things about Napier from a few people so we decided to stop here to break up the journey between Rotorua and Wellington. The town was reduced to rubble in the 30's after an earthquake so the city was rebuilt with earthquake ...
Getting ready
This is a top pick! Well we have 4 days to go and there has been a lot of packing today. We are busy researching Motorhomes to buy in Vancouver and studying the travel guides to decide where we will travel first - is it skiiing or head south for warmer weather?? ...
Bank Holiday in Napier
This is a top pick! ... it the Art Deco capital of the world and it has maintained its look until this day. Graeme also took us around a side of Napier tourists certainly don't get to see. His son is a boat builder and it was absolutely brilliant to check out the ...
Art Deco
This is a top pick! ... hectares of waterfront. Back in the car it's stinking hot, so we duck into the new National Aquarium of New Zealand, a wonderfully designed (and air-conditioned) piece of architecture. Re-emerging at 4pm, it's still damn hot, but we decide to continue ...
Departure from NZ
This is a top pick! Well we finally got to the HB airport on time - with 4 rather heavy bags (and even heavier carryon luggage). We had a lovely send-off fom family and friends. The AirNZ flight ...
Under Tangerine Skies
This is a top pick! ... and we spent much of the early evening circling around looking for any kind of dimly lit hovel with a vacancy sign. Napier's colourfully rendered township partners a promenade which stretches for miles along the sea front, and as we hummed along on ...
Solstice Fire Festival - perhaps not!
This is a top pick! We decided at the last minute to go to Napier, because we had heard about the Summer Solstice Festival to be held on 18th June, and with free entry we were sold. However, once again the weather conspired against us. It was fine when we left Wellington but ...
Something Good Has Begun
This is a top pick! ... Zealand. So I got a bus with Sophie to Auckland. I wouldn't say this freeloading experiment changed my view of New Zealand too much. But I'm grateful for the opportunity to meet these decent and generous people. If anything the experience taught me ...
Horses and opossums
This is a top pick! Emma finally gets her horse-fix on a sheep and cattle station near the coast. Our valiant effort to reach Napier yesterday ended here last night, 30km north of the city. Despite arriving late and unannounced, the owner rustled up a guide for us, so this ...
A little later the same evening
This is a top pick! Well - here I am again after learning a little more about how this software works. Caroline has asked me to add a few "more recent" pictures for your watching pleasure - so here they ...
Holly's preparation for departure
This is a top pick! Whatz up people!!!! i am soooooooo excited i mean would you be? one more day of school then the weekend and on sunday we are outta here!!!! my room is all packed up and ready to go-just my bag and things im taking are in a heap on the floor:] im not ...
Art deco by the sea
This is a top pick! ... , but everyone I met back in Taupo said it was really nice and worth a stop, so I jumped on the InterCity yesterday to have a look. Napier is on the east coast of the North Island, on the ocean, and it's a town of about 60,000 people or so. What is ...
Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men...
... little peckish and the breeze was getting up a bit and so we stopped for lunch. We had driven through Napier, the art deco town of New Zealand and briefly enjoyed its colour before continuing down the coast. Even slight detours weren't bothering me as ...
Art Deco, Wine & Coastal Drives
... – some more natural hot pools before heading on to Gisbourne. Gisbourne seemed to be the same as every other New Zealand town. They’re not particularly pretty, a main street of shops with covered walkways but the ...
Art Deco
This is a top pick! We arrived in Napier in the early afternoon. Due to an earthquake in the 1930s this city had to be rebuilt and is now referred to as "The Art Deco capital of the world". Not much to report on here, it was just an overnight stop before heading towards ...
Mini-golf, art deco and a movie
... the earthquake of 1931--Toad Hall. We then set out to explore the city, which after the 1931 earthquake, rebuilt itself into New Zealand's premiere art deco city. After buying some CDs for the long drive, we went to examine the "black" beach that ...
Hawkes Bay in the rain...
... heavy rain stopped us in our tracks. And it would not stop, so we ended up flying the white flag and cycled the 5km back to Napier in pouring rain. We were drenched by the time we got back and very sober, so hot showers and hot chocolate in front of the ...
Napier
Sun 16th April Drove for three and a half hours to Napier via Hastings and stopped for lunch at Rosie O'Gradys where, you guessed it, I watched another game of rugby. The main reason for going to Napier was to look at the Art Deco buildings but after ...