Christchurch Hotels - Reviews and Rates

After 70 days of traveling I have arrived at New Zealand! I arrived at Chirstchurch International and caught a bus into the city center. Then I found a nice hotel to stay in. I spent the day looking round this beautiful sleepy city - The Cathedral, the City O-Tautahi, The art gallery, the Canterbury Museum, The Botanic Gardens and the park. It's...

First full day in New Zealand and we set out to discover everything about Christchurch. It is Sunday, so off course Christchurch Cathedral had services. The prediction was for rain, but the day dawned sunny and warm. Tim was off early for a run and today didn't get lost like in Sydney. We had breakfast across the square while listening to an hou...

Our last couple of days were spent in Christchurch, the so-called 'Garden City' with acres of parks and gardens. The weather cranked up a few degrees again so we were quite happy to take it easy, relax in the park and slowly get used to the idea of coming home to Winter! It felt quite strange being in the city after being in countryside and the ...

Greetings all from bonny Scotland, sorry I mean New Zealand, I keep getting the two mixed up. Only kidding! We arrived into Auckland on a not so great (weather wise) afternoon. Once in the our huge hostel (7 floors worth) I decided to take a wander around the town as we were pretty central and kev was sleeping. Seen all the sites near like the S...

South Island here I come. We boarded the ferry at 8.00 am from Wellington and 3 hours later, via the very beautiful Queen Charlotte Sound, we were in the town of Picton on the South Island. I haven't got that much to say about Picton, nice enough place but I can sum the stay there up in my two highlights; Highlight one - a barmaid only charged ...

Onwards and upwards indeed... New Zealand it is! Flight was nice.. no nasty surprises... apart from the looney tunes plane that we were supplied with - no seriously, it was graffitied in looney tunes characters! That would just have been plain embarrassing if we were seen clambering out of that in a crash! Emma says she would have put the sick b...

Had a good sleep last night. Jessica was up first. I dragged myself out of bed, which was hard as the time-zone was 2 hours ahead of Australia. Mary gave us a lift into the centre of Christchurch. We went to the information centre and got loads of brochures and then went to Starbucks to discuss our route. We hired a car - a 10yr old Mazda Dario....

You little ripper! We've landed in Christchurch and by now our body clocks are starting to fall in to place (even though, for us the 23rd November 2007 was the day that never happened as we crossed the international date line not far from midnight). The flights were some of our best yet, pretty lucky given we had 3 on the trot and were travellin...

First impressions Well, this is it, we have reached the furthest destination of our trip: New Zealand, 11 hours ahead of London. However far it may be, New Zealand remains culturally close to England except that here, they eat less peas and produce far better ales (try the Montieth or the Mac's). In terms of landscape the country is an interesti...

hi guys, sorry about the lack of updates, have been in wilderness for many days :) Treks finished (noooo) It was soooo good and i made some amazing friends. Anyhoo, hmmm a quick update on what i've been up to... Went to Queenstown where I did horse riding, jet boating, drinking, gondalas and JUMPED OUT OF A PLANE. It was AMMAAAZZIIINNNGGG, total...