Omapere Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We had a xmas date with some long lost rellies of Paul's so ended up caning it up to 90 mile beach and down a little of the west coast to Dargaville. 90 mile beach is a lie. It's actually 60 miles. Or according to Paul's rellie's 9 miles or 3, depending on who you talk to. It's also a road, at low tide, obviously. But not for camper vans. Except...

Hokianga Harbour....we´ve been lucky enough to go to some amazing places during the course of our travels but this is the one place where I would return to almost every weekend if it was in striking distance of home.

We stayed on the southern side of the Harbour which is a long natural water inlet upon the north east coast of New Zealand´...

On the 14th we boarded the Magic bus and headed for Hokianga harbour. We planned to stay in a village called Omapere which is one of the many villages surrounding Hokianga harbour. We arrived at the information centre at about 10am and Mike, the owner of Globetrekkers Lodge was waiting there to take us to his hostel. The hostel was up on a hill ...

From Paihia we drove across to the West coast of New Zealand to a place called Omapere near Hokianga. It was rather sad to see how dry the countryside was - fire risk was noted as high throughout the trip. In Omapere, we treated ourselves to a bit of luxury and once we had persuaded the hotel to convert the double bed into the two singles that w...

A long and very eventful journey. After a good sleep in the relative quiet of downtown Aukland, we rose and breakfasted. An early trip to the shops was foiled by 10am opening on Saturday! We did a reckie and went back to the hotel to check out, then back to town for cash, stamps and a Kiwi SIM for the phone, +64 (0)2102460716. Back to the hotel,...

After a night in a horrible camping at Opononi, we drove and walk through the Waipoua forest, the sanctuary of the massive Kauri trees. There certainly are bigger and higher trees in the world but these ones are the masters of the forest. That was a good walk too. Also went to the Kai Iwi lakes and drove towards Auckland. Stoping at Piha beach f...

Morgens hat es leider ein bisschen geregnet, doch bis wir richtig auf dem Weg nach Norden waren, kam auch schon die Sonne raus. Von Pukenui aus war es eigentlich nicht mehr weit, aber wir kamen bald auf eine unbefestigte Strasse, so zog sich das ganze mal wieder ein bisschen hin. Und dann kam auch noch eine Herde Kuehe, und durch unseren Daihait...

Early in the morning - too early for a cup of java, I'm afraid - I board the very clean, comfortable, big windowed "Magic Bus" which is to be my transportation throughout New Zealand. I travel out of the city through picturesque rolling green hills and dairylands, up the west coast to the Hokianga Harbour. I've only been here a day and a half, a...

Starting to head back to Auckland because WE'RE GOING TO SEE TENACIOUS D on 11th January! We stopped at these twin towns called Opononi and Omapere. They were really nice and we met 2 really nice American ladies! So back in Auckland again at the moment, and I still don't like it very much, it seems to hate me! It makes everything a problem for m...

Morwenna managed to persuade her dad to lend us his car to drive up to the Northland (it is a bit more reliable than hers). We decided to do a loop round the north heading up the west coast today as far as the small town of Omapere at the edge of the Hokianga harbour. On the way up we passed through the last remaining areas of Kauri forest. Kaur...