Palmerston North Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Tuesday 7 October Palmerston North S 40° 22.3' E 175° 36.6' Wet and windy night; quite a few branches lying around this morning. Went to enquire why the internet connection didn't work - because they'd switched it off! Then went in search of a wiper arm thingy; none to be had. Despite low cloud, set off up the road to Mount Ruapehu; but it was c...

29/08/08 We had breakfast by the harbour, played lots of UNO, cleaned out the van and our shoes then headed to Levin and Titahi bay. We had an eventful evening that night as we had just finished eating when a really loud siren started going off, we thought it could be Tsunami so we had a little drive and went past a fire station where locals wer...

Sorry it has taken me so long to update this after my trip to Sydney. (Which I will be writing a blog about soon... thanks mom, for the reminder that I have not done that and there are people waiting. Ha!) Let's just say my life in New Zealand has done a complete 180 degree turn-around. For the better. Ever since moving into a flat and living w...

Hello All! Hope things are all going well with everyone back home and wherever else this letter may find you. I finally have to stop gloating about the gorgeous weather we've been having here because it's started up with strong winds and lashing rain. I honestly thought it was going to break thru our living room window it was coming down so hard...

Oh heartbreaker....I just typed a whole bunch of stuff, pressed a button mistakenly and LOST IT ALL.....if that's not one of the biggest ****-offs ever I don't know what is.... Anyhow... [grrr...rage....], here's what I've been up to down under! I'm just into my third week here (gosh how time flies!) and the weather continues to be hot, sunny, a...

I had offered my services to help with some catering at the local adult open learning centre. They had landed the catering contract to make 600 packed lunches for an annual Maori rugby tournament. You see, Sandi, a very kind lady who works there, had offered Paul and I long term loan of a lap top computer. We wanted to repay her in some way. Pau...

In less than 24 hours from arriving in Palmerston North, accommodation and jobs are nearly sorted out and we have a free laptop! That means we can finally get up to date with travelpod entries and emails without spending our hard earned cash in internet cafes. We landed at a lovely YHA hostel - The Peppertree hostel. We could happily stay here f...

Our next stop was Palmerston North, where we visited Massey University, the second largest university in the country, with 39,000 students, twelve percent of whom are Maori. Library director John Redmayne called it "a standard New Zealand university library." In a country of only four million, the eight universities compete for about 157,000 stu...