Akaroa Hotels - Reviews and Rates

so in reality, we are now in akoroa, which feels like the coldest place on earth right now, thus explaining why i'm in an internet cafe rather than exploring the most french town in new zealand! while in 'blog land', we are currently in the ulura kata-jutu national park, which appeared to be the warmest place on earth at the time! anyway, i only...

*I should take a moment to clarify that from here forward the term 'we' refers to Michelle, Aaron, Quinn and Liz, unless otherwise noted!* We (except Liz...) started the day by picking up our camper van from Escape Rentals. Of all the camper van rental companies we researched this one had the best vehicles for the best price. Plus, they all came...

1st April 2007 - Akaroa We had a well deserved lie in this morning before packing up the van and heading back on the road. Our destination is Akaroa which is reached by traveling through the Banks Peninsular. This is a very pretty area of land although the roads are very windy, but the van handles very well. The road leads us through the hills f...

It was a terrificly scenic drive here in our mushroom coloured Nissan Sunny rental, as the roads winds its way up and over and down the Banks Peninsula, what was once mistakenly declared an island by Captain James Cook. We set up our tent and though the temperature by night is pretty parky we found ourselves to be surprisingly snug, like a coupl...

For our last full day we drove to Banks Peninsular to Akaroa, an old French village with French buildings, bakeries and street names. We went to this crazy little farm with tracks up to a hillside lookout and Maori statues. Along the way every few yards there were little verses and funny phrases. We returned to the farmhouse which was covered in...

This is a really lovely spot, an extinct and collapsed volcano that stands as a circular peninsular not far from Christchurch. Numerous bays and beaches are dotted around the perimeter but the best part is the town of Akaroa that still has a French feel from the days that the French colonised it not realising that the British had already reached...

When Cook charted the waters below present day Christchurch, he christened the hilly land Banks Island. His mistake is understandable. The peninsula, named after Cook's famous biologist Sir Joseph Banks, is comprised of two extinct volcanoes. One can imagine that Cook, fighting contrary winds and forced (for fear of foundering) out of sight of l...