Westport Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Heading north from the Fox Glacier, our first stop was in Harihari, where David wanted to look at a model of the first biplane to fly from Australia to New Zealand. Next we stopped at Pukekura to try the famous possum pies, but unfortunately they had run out so we had venison pie instead. We passed through Hokitika and Greymouth, which were very...

Memorial day in NZ. Rain and wind and empty city. The westcoast seems for sale.

e left beautiful Nelson this morning amidst glorious sunshine and blue skies and the hope that it would turn out to be a great day and that it would warm up slightly! We headed out to the Nelson Lakes National park to have a picnic lunch by a lake - it was so lovely, the nicest place I've had lunch so far, a beautiful lake with the backdrop of h...

I jumped back on the kiwi bus today and our first stop was Nelsons Lakes National Park where there was snow on the ground! We went for a walk in the woods in the snow surrounded by snow-capped mountains. SO beautiful! The walk was really quick but I was distracted all the way round as I chatting to Ross & Lisa, a couple on the bus sitting in...

The path from Heaphy Hut traces the coast and often opens to stunning views of the raging Tasman Sea. This palm-fringed coast is hardly Fiji. Stacks of driftwood trunks litter the beaches. Dangerous riptides make swimming suicidal. When the sea meets the shore it is churned into a froth resembling milk. The numerous stoat traps along the path a...

Hi All, We started the Kiwi Experience yesterday and took a bus from Christchurch to Westport. We stopped and did two walks, both of which were good. The first one was at Castle Hill, where there were loads of rocks in the middle of a hill. We climbed them and it was cool. The second was in the Southern Alps - Arthurs's Pass where we climbed up ...