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Wanaka Slideshow
Top Hotels in Wanaka
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Grand Mercure Oakridge Wanaka
249 reviews -
Wyndham Vacation Resorts Wanaka
18 reviews -
Edgewater Resort Wanaka
81 reviews
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Alpine Resort Wanaka
39 reviews
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Edge Suites Wanaka
32 reviews -
Lakeview Studios Wanaka
77 reviews
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The Moorings Wanaka
79 reviews
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Manuka Crescent Motel Wanaka
19 reviews
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Wanaka Homestead Lodge & Cottages
90 reviews -
Whare Kea Lodge Wanaka
18 reviews
Wanaka
Travel Blogs from Wanaka, New Zealand
Home made Yorkshire puddings!
This is a top pick! ... some nice places for the proceeding nights (Hilltop in Papatowai and Freestone Backpackers in Manapouri) so that they'd continue to enjoy the New Zealand experience without me. As for me, I had to pack my things together ahead of my latest jaunt to Oz, ...
12,000 feet high and rising!
This is a top pick! ... of the lakes and mountains. The fact that I found a $10 note on the way back to the hostel was the icing on the cake! My list of highlights in New Zealand is growing, but it will take something extra special to surpass the skydive over Lake ...
Puzzling World!
This is a top pick! ... and explore. I did an easy, peaceful 2 hour return walk to Waterfall Creek, which basically followed the beach around Roy's Bay. Wanaka certainly did seem like a picturesque little place, and it reminded me of Picton in terms of its size and setting. I ...
Wanaka
This is a top pick! Following a chance encounter with someone who I survived D of E with five years ago, in a Wanaka supermarket, Oscar had a third passanger, which was fortunate as it apparently takes three graduates half and hour to fit two snow chains. Once this ...
Wanaka-time to leave
This is a top pick! ... tomorrow to start my travels again. The weather has changed over night and winter is on it's way. My time in Wanaka has been varied. Work at new world was interesting to say the least, but I don't think it will be a career move. Standing in the same ...
Perfect.
This is a top pick! Hello Hello... We are sitting in Wanaka's "funkiest internet cafe" (self-proclaimed), and I'm pretty confident in saying, that today has been one of the most spectacular, visually stunning, yet. To backtrack a bit--- Abel Tasman: We spent three ...
A Puzzling world
This is a top pick! ... versa. One room seemed to be on a 45 degree slope but was still level. We couldn't work it out either. We drove into Wanaka, saw some Irish people jumping into the freezing cold lake there screaming hat his bits were going to fall off before we found a ...
Haast an over night stop
This is a top pick! Hi all, On my last entry I said that the next stop was Queens Town via Wanaka, sorry forgot to mention that we stopped in Haast in between, it wasn't really a proper stop. It's so that the driver can rest. We got there early evening and stopped at a ...
Wanaka
This is a top pick! ... film Esther and I walked May back to her hostel then headed back to ours, May was going to move to our hostel the following day. Wanaka looked lovely and I wanted to stay for a while. The following morning I got up early and headed into town to see if I ...
Glaciers, mini-golf and a lot of cold air!
This is a top pick! ... me the bright blue thread of the Clutha Rver glistened as it wound its way through the green plains, and turquoise Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea sparkled. The air rushed against my face and roared in my ears as I plummeted, but we were so ...
A mirrored lake and rare steak
This is a top pick! ... sheared by the glacier. Also I think it is crazy that Fox and Franz Josef are only the 4th and 5th biggest glaciers in New Zealand, but are easily the two most visited. Apparently it is down to the ease of access and speed they move at therefore making ...
Wanaka
This is a top pick! ... couldn't wish for more beauty than that! Our hostel was ok, not the best place but it was close to everything... Having said that Wanaka is so small it would be difficult to be far away. We didn't really do much here, just chilled out on the beach next ...
Wanaka, colours are calling me...
This is a top pick! ... The next day we took a walk to Diamond Lake (nothing special) and a walk up Rocky Mountain to views overlooking Lake Wanaka making the uphill battle worth the effort. We then headed onto Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World just outside of town. We ...
Sofa cinema
This is a top pick! We woke up early today and after breakfast with Connor we headed off to walk up Mt Iron. This 1.5 hour circuit walk on the edge of the town is a must do for stunning views of the surrounding peaks. The morning sky was clear and nearly every snow capped ...
You wannaka to Wanaka?
This is a top pick! ... and then ran around it too, past the beach and the vinyards around it. I guess my concept of a "Big" city has changed because Wanaka seemed big to me after beeing in the middle of nowhere for a while. I discovered that people here live by 'Happy ...
A Change of Plan...
This is a top pick! ... degree panoramic views. The walk back down was a lot more gentle, reminiscent of the track at Mount Maunganui. I didn't want to leave Wanaka without seeing the sunset over the lake and mountains, so at about 5pm I did a short walk to Eely Point. It ...
The most scenic drive in my life
This is a top pick! The road from Fox Glacier to Wanaka is the most scenic of a drive I've seen so far. It is like a scenic rollercoaster with beach and cliff views waiting behind every turn. It took us 8.5 hours to cover the 300km, since we were making photo stops every 15 ...
Glaciers and Hot Pools
This is a top pick! Fully trained up on how to clean toilets, we left Wanaka again for a few days away before starting our new lives as "cleaning bitches" and "checkout chicks" First we did a tramp at the nearby Mount Aspiring National Park. Wanaka's own alpine ...
Adventure Sports Here We Come!
This is a top pick! ... between a llama and a sheep) as if they were best of breed at Crufts. Funny. (Marcus's highlight was the jodhpurs!) On day 2 in Wanaka, we climbed the nearby summit of Mount Roy. Only a 16 km, 1100 metre ascent - no problem, we thought, we can do ...
Frank's Bungy Jump and up to Lake Wanaka
This is a top pick! ... of the area. We drove further north to also get views of Lake Hawea , and ended up spending the night at the DOC (Dept of Conservation) Boundary Creek campsite along Lake Wanaka, with great views of the lake from the back of our campervan. ...
Wanaka
This is a top pick! ... , basically, that was about it! Not a very exciting couple of days but good to just chill out in one place for a couple of nights. I think Wanaka would be great in the ski season but in the summer (well at the start of it at least when it can still be a ...
Final week in Wanaka
This is a top pick! ... Friday we were tired....maybe I'm too old and should stick to ski-ing! And Saturday was our last day in beautiful Wanaka. Also Laura's birthday - a fortunate coincidence which led to birthday cake on the ski slopes and Bob stunt-skiing off a rock ...
There's snow in the mountains!!!
This is a top pick! ... like. We decided we'd just nip through it onto the next town and do all the action packed stuff for less elsewhere. So Wanaka anyway. It's a nice cosy little town, apparently a mini Queenstown and like all the towns in this part of the country its ...
What to do in Wanaka
This is a top pick! ... playing tonight but unfortunately our visit coincided with their bi-annual safety review. What are the chances! Staying another night in Wanaka seemed worthwhile as this was a one-of-a-kind movie theatre, kitted out with old sofas, mismatched chairs and ...
Riddle Me This
This is a top pick! The day had come to finally leave the cozy cradle of Queenstown and see the rest of New Zealand. It was good that we'd stayed on one extra day because when we pulled out that morning we felt happy to be moving along. That sense of adventure had gripped us ...
Driving South
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 196 Temperature : 24 degrees Weather : Mostly sunny, some cloudy spells Another day dawned. We headed further south. The weather was great. In fact, it was hot weather. How can it be that it seemed to be getting warmer the further ...
Arse
This is a top pick! ... and detoured off, further west and over to Lake Matheson, which apparently offers some of the most panoramic, picturesque scenery in New Zealand. After everything I've seen, felt and experienced here, I just had to see for myself. The weather was ...
Illusions and Inspiration
This is a top pick! ... of doing some of the long treks around these parts. I'm just bursting to get out there. There is still so much to do in New Zealand and it seems so long since I've been able to do anything particularly active due to my foot injury. I feel like I've ...
But on the other hand..
This is a top pick! ... retailer and a long sweeping bay overcast with dark skies, providing an ominous but surprisingly peaceful setting. The west coast of New Zealand sees ridiculous levels of rainfall (over seven metres in the Fiordland) and so the landscape here is lush ...