Queenstown, New Zealand Travel Blogs

Remarkable for a Reason
Sep 10, 2004 (14 photos)

Well I've made it to Queenstown and I'm quite glad. I decided to stay at the Southern Laughter hostel (only because I had previously called about a job and it looked to be in a good position). The bus ride to Queenstown was not fun. I felt sick much of ...

Canyon Swing!
Dec 11, 2005 (7 photos)

... exact. I had mixed feelings about this leg of my journey. On one hand, I was excited to be going to the adventure capital of New Zealand...finally! But on the other hand, I'd built up a picture of it in my mind, and it involved lots and lots of tourists ...

134 Meter Jump
Feb 12, 2005 (8 photos)

So from Wanaka to extreme central of New Zealand. Queenstown is a town where you can find any kind of extreme and there is something for everyone. The first day I started thinking about bungy jumping. Could I actually do it? If I don't do it now, will ...

Ruminations at the One Month Mark
Jan 13, 2005 (4 photos)

Happy One Month Anniversary of Traveling to Us! Today marks four weeks in New Zealand, and true to the cliche- time flies. We are in Queenstown right now- the "Adventure Capital". There are tons of adventure activities--- skydiving, the worlds' first ...

Queenstown
Oct 29, 2005 (5 photos)

Well we have been in QT for a couple of days now, and to be honest I don't really like the place that much. The scenery around here is absolutely beautiful though, with the lake and the Remarkable mountain range. But the town is just full of motels and ...

Queenstown - arrrrrggghhhh!
Dec 15, 2003 (6 photos)

... up for the weekend, so we consoled ourselves with a heli hike instead. After a very rainy day in Franz, we headed south again. More spectacular scenery, more rain, and another failed attempt to do a sky dive. Maybe we'll be luckier in Queenstown!

Queenstown
Jul 26, 2005 (11 photos)

... again to do a canoe trip, but the rain was torrential so we decided to give it a miss. We then headed straight on to Queenstown. Once there we made our way to twelve mile delta, our campsite for the next few days. 24th July 2005 We took a trip out ...

Queenstown and partying!!
Oct 27, 2005 (10 photos)

Fun fun... got into Queenstown and immediately didn't like it.. Not sure why but it was raining and a bit grey so that didn't help, plus the place seemed to be full of coach loads of tourists. We drove around for a bit trying to find a good hostel to ...

Back to Queenstown
Nov 28, 2005

Yesterday we drove back up the Milford Road towards Milford to take in one more hike before heading back to Queenstown. Lake Marian, beautiful views, very calm and quiet (no wind). Drive to Te Anau to relax by the lakeside before heading back to ...

Minus 5c
Aug 5, 2005 (5 photos)

Well actually it was minus 8.7c but who's splitting hairs. The concept is a fancy bar in queenstown which is basically a fridge of ice for you to drink in. The whole idea apparently came from two guys travelling through Russia when their car broke ...

Queenstown
Dec 14, 2004 (16 photos)

Next stop on our trip was Queenstown, the adventure activity capital of New Zealand. We were looking forward to our stop here as we had heard so many good things about it and Queenstown def lived up to our expectations. The obvious comparisons to ...

Milford Sound to Queenstown
May 5, 2008

KEEP AS DRAFT!!!

Boyscouts and Bread Sandwiches
Aug 28, 2003 (15 photos)

... , and almost zen like nature, Jan was on board. After all she does like Japanese food. So now we are here in Queenstown for some skiing. I plan on taking snowboarding lessons actually so our next entry may be from the hospital. But I have to do it, ...

Campervan Transplant
Apr 19, 2007 (2 photos)

... Milford Sound we arrived in Queenstown early evening and set up camp in 12 Mile Delta just 12km out of town, (anyone traveling to New Zealand DOC sites are a must for free and very cheap campsites). It was a beautiful setting once again on the shore of a ...

Back to little Queeny.
Nov 10, 2008

... not much to report. Except for a fruit stop on the way where we picked up strawberries and grapes, we headed straight for Queenstown, arriving at the Black Sheep Backpackers at about 4pm. We struck a really good 2 night deal here, getting a double room ...

A walk in the park in the wonderful sunshine!
Nov 11, 2008 (44 photos)

... 11am! After finally dragging her sorry ass out into the beautiful sunshine, we took a walk along the lake and through Queenstown Gardens. This is a nice steady walk and offers great views on a clear sunny day like today. Whilst walking along, we ...

Okay, it's pretty
Apr 13, 2007 (111 photos)

I end up in agreement that the South Island is quite beautiful. My favorite part was spending time on an old boat that now runs tours through Doubtful Sound. Although it rained most every day, the fantastic food, the homemade muffins, and the great coffee ...

Queenstown to Milford Sound - three buses & a boat
Feb 23, 2008

Queenstown, that fine town of the south, reminded me a little of Las Vegas. Out of the dry grasslands in drought, just on from the rocky gullies, after miles and miles of bland colours and semi-desert, there is was: the jewel in the heart of the lotus it ...

Queenstown
Nov 24, 2008 (4 photos)

Queenstown is really beautiful. It's on a lake and surrounded by mountains, there's a very 'alpine' feel to the place, if there's such of a thing! We stayed at Pinewood, $20 NZ a night. Cheap - as! Pinewood is made up of units, each one with a kitchen ...

Them there be people
Aug 14, 2004 (2 photos)

... for evidence!) Last part of above should be ignored! (we actually write this like tag team typing/relay typing). In summary Queenstown an excellent place for skiery type people & a good place to chill (quite literally in the case of our hotel - it ...

Back to Hostelworld
Feb 22, 2007 (4 photos)

... through my mind as I waited for the flight to Christchurch. I was also thinking about what I was going to see and do whilst in New Zealand as I did most things I wanted to do when I here last time. I included it in my itinerary as my flight to Chile leaves ...

Quality Queenstown
Dec 1, 2005 (2 photos)

... move on. I've not done any of the adrenaline activities here yet but I have a feeling that I'll probably be passing through Queenstown again shortly...watch this space! Big in reputation, small in size, this town has grown on me each day I've stayed; ...

Milford Sound to Queenstown - Day 269
Nov 19, 2008 (8 photos)

... and surrounding mountains. We took off from a immaculately keep grass air strip only 20 minutes from Queenstown. Six of us squeezed into the back of a New Zealand build propeller plane and within seconds we were in the air. The plane climbed at over 1000 ...

3, 2, 1 BUNGY!!!
Aug 4, 2005

Thats right the adventure sports have started up again with a jump of a bridge. There are three or four choices of bungy jump ranging from just short of 40m to 134m. We plucked for a 43m jump for the scenery and the fact that it's the original full ...

New Zealand - Queenstown
Dec 31, 2006 (23 photos)

Entry to follow

Adventure Sports Here We Come!
Mar 15, 2004 (5 photos)

... themselves off the original AJ Hackett bungy bridge (made me feel sick), and the paragliders running off the hill overlooking Queenstown. Scared to stay any longer, in case we accidentally spent more money we haven't got, we left Queenstown and drove ...

Queenstown, again!
Nov 24, 2008 (12 photos)

... top of a mountain and you get a good view over the town. We had a big dinner that night! The next day we left Queenstown but stopped at the Kawasaki Bridge on the way, home of the first Bungy jump. Can't beat an adrenaline rush at 9.30am so we threw ...

Rain Drops Keep Falling On Our Van
Sep 21, 2004 (13 photos)

... we headed downstairs for a nice cooked breakfast before heading off on another snowy morning towards the Shotover River, scene of New Zealand's most popular hair-raiser, the ShotoverJet. Sure we'd already been on three jet boat trips on our travels ...

Queenstown
Dec 23, 2006 (25 photos)

... and some wrapping paper so we could rip it apart and find the presents we already knew we had! Wandering around the centre of Queenstown we were surprised at how small it was, we could also picture it as a winter, alpine style resort. The style of the ...

Routeburn Track to Queenstown - Day 267
Nov 17, 2008 (3 photos)

... A good effort I reckon! It certainly wasn't easy but very enjoyable and well worth the effort. Defiantly the best way to appreciate New Zealand's majestic landscapes is to hit the trails, I don't think there's any other way. We only had a short 3km, 45 ...