Paihia Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

From Auckland i ventured north first. Travelling up to Paihia, we stopped off to do some tree hugging, a random thing to do first thing in the morning, but something my bus driver suggested as a ice breaker i recon for people on the bus. Then we travelled on til we got to Paihia, There was caught a ferry to do a cruise around the Bay of Islands....

01.02.2009 Wir stehen schon um 6.00 Uhr auf und um 7.00 Uhr sind wir unterwegs Richtung Paihia an der Bay of Islands. Dort kommen wir gegen 9.15 Uhr an und gehen direkt zum Touristenbuero. Wir haben Glueck und koennen um 10.00 Uhr noch an einer Segeltour durch die Bay of Island teilnehmen. Am Pier warten wir auf Mike den Kapitaen, er und seine F...

The long trip north.... We waved goodbye to Auckland fairly early to start the fairly long drive into northland. First stop was a small town called Warkworth, where I'd considered jumping off to explore the Kauri forest located there; one of the last dense populations of these magnificent trees left in NZ. But getting carried away with the spiri...

Was supposed to go on an organised tour to Cape Rianga but after chatting with Anne (Dive buddy and car driver) the previous evening decided to take up her offer of a seat as she was going to go up there any way. We planned to do more or less the same as the official tour just in our own way. I did try to cancel my booking but got the feeling th...

We made it up to the Bay of Islands to enjoy our last full day in New Zealand before having to head back to Auckland to fly off to Fiji. The Bay of Islands is like the 'Whitsundays' of New Zealand. Lots of beautiful sandy islands dotted around an equally beautiful bay (144 to be exact). We had a sneak peak around these islands via an extremely f...

Paul took over the driving the following day as we were on the road again by 8. We reached our next destination (Paihia) at 9.30 where the sight of the beach and sun had us jumping out of the car for a morning stroll. A perfect start to a Monday morning. We walked into the centre of Paihia and got directions to the Youth Hostel and advice on loc...

Having been woken up by a car alarm twice in the night and being hungover, the day did not start well. However, lunch at McDonalds soon cured that - perfect hangover food. It took 4-5hrs to get to Bay Of Islands and we went to Paihia to book our dolphin watching boat cruise and then found a very cheap campsite and relaxed for the night. Set off ...