Rotorua Hotels - Reviews and Rates

After swinging by the gondola center in Rotorua and realizing that the view from the top didn't come close to any we'd seen so far, we headed back into town to explore and ran across the Government Gardens.  Bathhouses and other buildings surrounded huge croquet lawns that must have been popping when they were originally built.

Yeehaw time for a bit of action! The ****** colds are staring to ease and it's time for some adrenaline shots :) Rotorua is the spot for cool zany stuff to do in NZ, well the North Island anyway. We started off with something relaxing, went to Hells Gate mud spa for a mud bath and thermal spa. Very relaxing but now we stink of rotten eggs and ev...

We left Wellington early as we had a long drive today to Rotorua. The road out of Wellington was the first bit of real motorway we had been on since arriving in New Zealand. There wasn't much to look at the first section of the day and we stopped after about an hour and a half at a place called Foxton. This towns claim to fame is it's windmill. ...

After a lovely couple of days in Rotorua the heavens opened and it RAINED like it only knows how in New Zealand.We were caught in flash floods and the poor old van didn't know what had hit it. We had unfortunately saved most of the adventure activities for the last day so had to give most of them a miss. We did catch the gondala up the hillside ...

Hello again everyone! Well it's been a few days since I posted last and, while it doesn't seem like it, I guess lots has happened. I spent a couple days in Rotorua, decided to visit the Burried Village which was pretty cool. The best part was the guided museum tour which was given by a Maori guy whose tribe had been living in the area, including...

on our way to rotorua we stopped at karangahake scenic reserve to explore native bush clad gorges, we walked over swing bridges and through a 1km railway tunnel, very dark! it was used in the old gold mining days... got to rotorua, the city that smells of rotten eggs! there is steam coming out of places in the streets, boiling mud pools and geys...

Hey, So after leaving the beautiful Lake Taupo I headed further north to the city of Rotorua, aka Sulphur City. My friend from New Zealand told me if I ever went to Nz I had to go to Rotorua. Now after going there I cant for the life of me figure out why he said that... The place stank. I mean that in the literal sense of the word. It smelled re...

Hmmm, Rob added the photos for this one and I realized it's harder to do only one side of it. However, it's much faster so I won't complain but I do have some explaining to do. Alright...Rotorua, what a cool place. Well not really. I kept thinking of that Paris girl going "That's hot"!, and it was. This is a very unique place. In BC the crust is...

I woke the morning in Rotorua and decided I was I would start with the Rotorua museum and head out from there. The town of Rotorua is actually not that bad and surprisingly I couldn't smell any sulphur unless I went to sulphur bay or the hot springs and then it really wasn't that bad. I booked a walking tour of Rotorua Museum since I really didn...

For 38 years, students from tribes across New Zealand have converged on the New Zealand Maori Arts & Crafts Institute (NZMACI) at Te Puia to learn traditions in danger of being lost forever. "If you forget your ancestors, you too are forgotten" So significant was the threat, an Act of Parliament was passed in 1963 to ensure the ancient arts and ...