Taupo Hostels - Reviews and Rates

The lodge sends someone to pick us up and when we saw that she had a little trailer behind the van we knew someone had warned them about us. A previous driver told us that only Americans and Italians travel with so much luggage. Since we have 3 of one and 1 of the other we feel normal. Besides that it is just 1 suitcase and 1 carry-on per person...

Here's the puzzle: I left San Francisco on Saturday at 9 p.m. flew thirteen hours into the night and arrived into Auckland at 5 a.m. on Monday morning. So just where did Sunday, September 6 disappear to? What happens to those lost hours? Am I technically a day younger? Should I start celebrating my birthday a day later?

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We awoke from our night in the car to the sounds of cars driving into the parking lot of the rowing club. When you choose a place to sleep in the car, it's probably best to consider finding a place that won't be used early in the morning. A rowing club is probably not the place since they tend to row at the crack of dawn! After a stop at McDonal...

Hello all, well finally made it to NZ, the weather isn't great but we're having a great time! We're in Taupo at the moment where i did my sky dive the last time i was here! We arrived in Auckland on the 24th and spent 2 days there just looking around the shops and went up the sky tower, the views are amazing up there. Saturday we jumped on the S...

We arrived to beautiful weather which we were very pleased about. Lake Taupo is New Zealand's largest and was created by one of the biggest volcanic erruptions ever. No worry though as it was over 26,500 years ago. It is still an 'active' area though with lots of natural hot thermal springs to take advantage of. Once we had sorted our campsite o...

Here we are, Trisha and I are doing our Thelma and Louise thing on the north island and so far the weather has been great. We crossed from the South to North island in what could only be described as picture perfect weather definitely no chance of sea sickness! Have taken heaps of photos and have had to buy a new SD card for the camera; for the ...

We left Queenstown and took the long bus ride up to Picton, where we had to spend the night as we arrived too late to catch the ferry across to the North Island. There wasn't much to do in Picton so we spent the following morning playing mini-golf, whilst waiting for the ferry. It was most fun. It was about this time we noticed just how little t...

Hey guys! I passed to the north island 4 days ago, and already did so much... And also got some thing from before that to tell! so let's get on with it: QUEEN CHARLOTTE TRACK - STILL SOUTH ISLAND! On my last day before the ferry to the north island, I decided to do a few hours from the Queen Charlotte track, that goes through a lot of bays, cove...

After the lovely mud of Rotorua, we headed to Taupo for a few nights. This is on the edge of a huge lake, and is very pretty. It's also home to a great "English" pub/restaurant called "Jolly Good Fellows", where we chatted to a few locals, and had a great cheap meal. Highly recommended, if you're in that area. As we walked to the pub, we passed ...

So, I met Donna, Scott and the campervan. A nice red van which will be my bed for the next few weeks!!! The van had to be taken to the garage as it had to be push started so while we waited for it to be fixed, we decided to go to Russell on the ferry. Unfortunately, it was only a vehicle ferry and it was another 10 kilometres to drive on the oth...