Nelson Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Week 42 May 15th Well, today's whitewater rafting day on the Kaituina River. Got kitted out with wet suits (too right..its positively Arctic here in the water) and the usual equipment. The guys running the tour are a good bunch of Kiwis..they promised Ivan a hard time (he boasted about his Kayaking skills and said rafting was for sissies...HA!)....

25th February 2008 Plannimg ahead this time we booked up in advance to stay at the best hsotel in town and were really looking forward to it because it got really good reviews.....unfortunately when we got there they had no record of us and were fully booked! We could tell that the owner thought it was our mistake and that we were confused about...

Now, I'm not suggesting from the title of this entry that I have somehow figured out levitation, but what I am doing is even more amazing and gratifying. When I was walking back to the hostel the other day I noticed that the roof is covered in solar-panels. In my curious state of mind I asked the guy behind the reception about them. You might re...

Barely recovered from the stresses of the Queen Charlotte Track, we headed back on the bus and arrived in the town of Nelson. After a couple of days relaxing we headed off on a two day tour of the nearby and rather famous Abel Tasman Peninsular. Having recently vowed to never again set foot in a kayak we found ourselves inexplicably ..... in kay...

Wellington, die "windz city", hat sich uns genauso dargeboten - windig, kuehl, regnerisch - beeindruckend das "Te Papa Museum", das ein absoluter Pflichtpunkt in Wellington ist. Ein neuseelaendisches Nationalmuseum, das das Land aus den unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven naeherbringt (Maorikultur, Einwanderer, Fauna&Flora, etc...). Abends habe...

Post Abel Tasman I had to decide what to do next and whether to stay traveling with Heather. Heather is on a much quicker path through New Zealand and to stay with her would have resulted in getting to Auckland two weeks early which I had been advised to avoid at all costs. So after Abel Tasman Heather and I separated and I stayed with Dave. Dav...

How do you get your motel noticed when a town has hundreds of them? Obviously the answer is to theme them. Nelson has two particularly fine examples of this phenomenon - there's the Knight's Lodge (or something similar) which is a mock tudor crenellated horror made of styrofoam, and the Chinese Temple (or something similar) which is three plasti...

Yesterday was an all day long wine tour. Today we're off to see more sights. Trying to cram as much as we can in while we're here. The weather hasn't been the most cooperative which means that we couldn't go kayaking and there wasn't time for hiking. Means I have to come back. Or stay. That man on the plan was right - I am already plotting to se...

Another ungodly hour to wake up after an interesting night in the base bar. Rain falling and illustrates the mood of everyone with hangovers and sad goodbye. Didn't do much sight spotting on ferry tried to sleep. Stopped on way to Nelson and had swim in very very cold river but was good idea to get rid of hangover. Arrived at one of the nicest b...

I have finally loaded the pictures on to my last entry so if you go back in to it and click on photo album they are there and I have attached some more to this entry! After leaving Abel Tasman and feeling a bit broken after a day's sea kayaking, we drove to Nelson on Friday via Picton and Marlborough Sounds. We took an amazing scenic drive along...