Whangarei Hotels - Reviews and Rates

This was one of the best places we stayed swimming pool, hot tub, big kitchen, really nice hosts. Location was great too, we were a walk from Whangarei Falls, which is a beautiful water fall, we saw that then took the walk up the river. about a killometre after the fall we spotted a dog who was trapped on a bank near the river and she couldn't g...

On Wednesday mornining, after getting the flat tyre on the hire car changed for $25, we drove up to Auckland. On the way we stopped at the 'Herb Garden', a lovely B&B that did a tea with scons and sadwiches and all manner of home made chutneys and pickles. A very worthwhile trip a few km of the highway just before Auckland.

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I said goodbye to Auckland yesterday, feeling as though i've exhausted it's main attractions. It's a nice enough city but nothing special really. I got a lift up to Whangarei with the family i will be wwoofing for for the next few weeks which was great as i was dreading negotiating the buses or trains with my massive backpack! They have 3 kids a...

First stop on our travels in New Zealand . . .Whangarei. Bought a tent earlier that day (which I know we'll never use) a book of maps and a few other necessities for the auto and ar aghaidh linn as they say. We arrived in to Whangarei late and saw some cool fork lightening on the way. Did bugger all in the town except dine on the finest KFC's yo...

Alrighty!! Well, made our final trip upto Auckland backpacker car market today and came away with a 1986 1.5 Toyota Corrola with only 250,000 km and a massive dent on the side for just junder 400 quid! Peg, had a look at the Astras - they were giving them away free but still think I was getting ripped off. Got the car checked by a mechanic, he s...

Whangarei, pronounced Fangaray is the big city of the Northland (pop. 50,000). I was planning on only staying around here overnight but I've had such a good time I'm still around getting on 3 days later. I showed up, staked out my bed in the hostel, then turned right around to go to the Abbey Caves. The first time I went up there it was really s...