Hokitika Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We did a steep hike up to an old Trig station where they did the surveying of the area during the 1870s. It had great views of the Southern Alps including Mt. Cook. We drove up the West Coast for two days. We stopped in Hokitika to shop for some greenstone (jade). Sandi got a pendant, while I hung out in the pub watching tourists. Here are the r...

Started with a walk up the Franz Josef Glacier. Rain earlier in the week (just 0.4 meters in 4 days!) had closed some paths so we could not get to the snow. Then back to F-J for breakfast and on to a coast walk where we were promised views of Mt Cook, but it was too cloudy over the mountains. The walk was mostly verticle! Finished the day with a...

First whitebait at my pubhotel, plus many jade, gold and crafts shops.

This morning, we went to see the seals. Yasmin asked if there was going to be poo on the ground there. Of course there will be, we said, thinking of seal poo. But we went there just last week, was the retort. Of this there can be no doubt: when Yasmin remembers something, she remembers it. Kaikoura poo on the seal walk was of the bovine variety ...

Visited the Jade capital with the swedish girls - Hokitika. Went to a massive cave in the middle of the night to see the glow worms. It was quite spooky....

I was fast turning into Charlotte's lucky charm, as we woke to a completely blue sky on Tuesday morning - absolutely perfect conditions for her proposed heli-hike. It was really hot too, with the temperature touching 20 degrees - another factor that vindicated my move up north, as the freezing Invercargill was still fresh in my mind! While Charl...

Hokitika is NZ's major center for the working of Greenstone or Jade as we know it. Before leaving the town, we visited th jade factory where they had a full size replica in Jade stone of the Americas Cup. You could also but rather expensive Jade golf putters. The factory produced hundreds of ornaments and necklace pendants. We then visited the n...