Fox Glacier Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Monday 9th We rise at matthison, not knowing what the view would be like after having arrived in the dark and pouring rain the night before. We have booked the guided walk on the Fox Glacier for the day and we can just see it peeking out of the mountainside as the clouds begin to clear. We arrive early at the meeting point and find out that our ...

Vanessa said it was the scariest thing she's ever done! Today we hiked the Fox Glacier... We started off at the Fox Glacier Guides office where we were separated into groups consisting of full and half-day hikers. Each participant received a necklace with six tags attached. These could be exchanged for items of clothing such as rain jackets, ov...

It is Tuesday here and actually Paul's birthday back home. We get on the computer and skype and few folks back home. It is good to hear their voices. After breakfast we head out to start our trek up the West coast of the South Island and are targeting Haast as our destination. Haast is 2 ½ hours from Queenstown. We stop several times along the w...

Feeling a bit tired from all the walking around Mount Cook we headed out towards Te Anau. Te Anau is the entrance town to the Milford Sound. We only spent a night in Te Anau before heading into Milford. The drive into Milford is regarded as one of the most scenic in all of New Zealand, with lots of places to stop off and take pictures or set up ...

The PANCAKE ROCKS WERE SO COOL.T HE PHOTO'S WON'T EVEN TELL how neat they were. The blow holes shot water up 100 feet. The tide was at high tide so it was the best. On to the Glacier area and Southern Alps. Long drive on windy roads and on the wrong side of the road made it a long day. Tomorrow we have a 4 hour hike to see the bottom of the glac...

From the journal: Back to Nelson with some Motueka hostelers and then did my first Hitching (I had heard NZ was famously good for hitchin' and I had to make it part of my trip) from Nelson to Rapahoe just north of Greymouth. Went most the way with Nama layed back, quiet, but sharp Israeli girl. Rapaphoe was a trip literally. Not sure if was a dr...

it was time to get ready and go. we woke at 7:30 packed our bags and headed ouver for breakfast. it was delicious. we hit the road at 930 and said goodbye to kinloch lodge and made our way to queensdown for a quick pit stop. there we got gas, Jake V graped a brand new auto magazine. we drove for a while and got to see some amazing sites. we made...

Today was an adventurous and educational day. We finally got to sleep in a little this morning, our set departure time was 10:00am! Our adjenda for the day was to hike the fox glacier but this was not until 1:25 so we had a morning to do as we pleased. We decided to go to Lake Matheson. This lake was created by a glacier and had a beautiful path...

Hello. I am back again. Today we went to see the Glaciers at Franz Joseph and Fox. We woke up to pouring rain which we had all night. While heading to Franz Joseph Glacier we stopped at the visitor center and found out that due to the rain all the helicopter flights and hikes to the glacier have been cancelled because they can not fly in this ra...

To celabrate Queen's Birthday (why don't we do that at home??) a bunch of us tramped up to the hot pools at Welcome Flat. As we peered out the window at the dreary wet and wind discussions popped up about whether we would make it across the numerous rivers in one piece after a week of rain. The entire physio dept (all 5, except the boss) were th...