Thornton Lodge Tauranga

171 Oceanbeach Road Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand

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Running from the Warden

A travel blog entry by martinandkate

11

... for a little panic where we are 60 cents short for our overnight payment. I left a note saying we’ll sort change in the morning if they wanted the other 60 cents but I didn’t have change small enough. The honesty system is not natural with the English I would think and the temptation not to pay once again when there is no one there to collect the money is very high – but then again, it’s 6 quid. How cheap would that be not to pay?! It's not like it's 9 ...

Rotorua - Shore Excursions - Hells Gate + Maori

A travel blog entry by aliceandmac

8

... running over the backs of the sheep. We laughed a lot a bit hard to explain on paper.

Back to the ship after a very busy and enjoyable day for a casual dinner on the Lido Deck instead of the dining room and just relaxing before going down to our cabins."

Some additional notes about the area (provided by MS Volendam)

The western part of the Bay of Plenty, where Tauranga is located, extends from Katikati and Waihi Beach to Papamoa ...

Smelly city!

A travel blog entry by em80

... thermal pools which give off the smell of sulphur. Luckily our campsite promises 'no sulpher smell! '
The cabin is nice and cosy and has a little hob and grill so we don't always have to use the communal kitchen which suits me! Unfortunately we still have to make the freezing midnight dash to the toilet as we don't have our own!
Rotorua is a nice city, probably our favourite so far, and we enjoyed going to see the geysers and even went to the cinema. I miss watching ...

We’re not gonna make it

A travel blog entry by katie-jenny2011

3
56

... down Mom). We stayed in our little pool of heaven for about an hour then came back to go to bed.

Lessons Learned:

1. Tipping the raft over in the winter makes your hands so cold you think your fingers are seriously in jeopardy of falling off.

2. Hot pools are awesome.

3. Just because 7 beds fit into a small room doesn’t mean that 7 people with all their stuff will fit in there too.

Love Katie and ...

Fiery Earth

A travel blog entry by mswood

38

... haka, too, but that was just for the men. You can also see the hongi, which is the greeting that the Maori use. You touch noses twice, then shake hands. Apparently, that’s usually men only too. I don’t like the gender roles here much, but I did respect them. It seems to me the men have more fun, though.

After the performance, we had a hangi, which is a traditional Maori meal, cooked in the ground by the geothermal heat. Ours had ...

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