Paihia Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We are tired and a bit cranky and realise that we haven't planned a route or anything around NZ so spend the next 2 days in perpetual miffedness. Although, it's a pretty beautiful place to be miffed. We pick up another van, she says we've been upgraded, but we really haven't this is the worst van so far. It whistles like a kettle over 80km an ho...

Oh my! This place is amazing. We turned up and they couldn't find our booking so we got upgraded to the penthouse for free! We have a beautiful appartment overlooking the waterfront and the weather is just perfect. We arrived yesterday evening after a fairly quick drive up from Auckland. Just about 3hr30. We stopped off at Whangarei on the way t...

After a couple of days in Auckland we are heading north up the peninsula called Northland, destination Paihia, approximately 170 kms. Its a region of rolling hills, sometimes lush vegetation, other times farming land with cattle and sheep and of course beautiful views of the ocean. Stopped on the way up there at the Kauri Park which has several ...

Fri 8th - Mon 11th Dec. It was a long drive from Rotorua, through grid-locked Auckland traffic to Pahia at the Bay of Islands. It was like a night time rally stage as we sped round the undulating mountain roads to arrive late at night. Had good weather at the Bay of Islands and took a jet boat ride out through the "Hole in the Rock" island. Saw ...

We arrived in Pahia late at night so we grabbed something to eat then set up our car in the dark - we were experts at this by now! In the morning we woke up and realised our dustpan and brush had gone missing! This is probably a major incident in sleepy NZ! We then realised our gas camping stove had gone AWOL too - this almost qualifies for the ...

The Bay of Islands is the real holiday resorty type place over here. New Zealanders go on holidays there and if ya get good weather its a beautiful place. We went on a Day in the Bay boat trip that tries to get you swimming with dolphins. In the end however it was more like a frantic jump of the boat and power swim in their general direction. At...

Well I got very fed up with Auckland very quickly..... still not sure why, maybe due to the windowless dorm or the 2 obnoxious English girls in my dorm, but I decided to hire a car(at a ridiculous rate) and head up North. I managed to get out of the city pretty easily and headed North on the Motorway. On the way up I stopped at a very nice beach...

Wednesday 19th October 2005 Today we drove up to the Bay of Islands, it was a very long journey so Andy and I took turns driving. Andy had already decided which campsite we were going to stay in as it was next to a river he could fish in, so we headed straight there. Once we were all sorted we headed back into Paihia to visit the Information Cen...

Just a quick one to upload photos, will finish later.....have to meet up with Barney to go watch the sunset from the sky tower tonight :) Okay, I wrote this somewhere along the way. If I'm not very clear about who everybody is, just see there picture and description in the photo album. Oh my God! I have been having the most amazing time here in ...

Today we drove into Paihia in the Bay of Islands. We took our time driving, stopping in Kerikeri for a hike. Paihia is a cute little beach town and seems to be the central location for all backpackers. Mike knew of a friend here who he met in the Cook Islands. We got in touch with her and turns out 4 other people he knew from the islands were he...