Hotels in Rotorua - Prices and Reviews

On the road again this afternoon, we depart Wellington and head north through farming country. We'll make a stop at the raging waters of Huka Falls, and past Wairakei Geo-thermal area. You'll see that Rotorua is truly alive as we drive through it on our way to our nights accommodation. Tonight we will be staying in a traditional Maori Marae, we ...

The smell of sulfur confirmed that we had finally arrived in the geothermal area of Rotorua, in the early afternoon of Thursday, December 18. Since we didn't have enough time to visit the geothermal areas the same day, we spent our afternoon in the local museum learning about how the geological formation of the area over the centuries. The highl...

The van switch in Hamilton takes the best part of a day and, rather than go back to the caves (thinking that they will be pretty flooded by now) area we decide to move on to Rotorua. We arrive late in the day and look around a couple of commercial campsites but decide they are not worth the money and decide to head off to the boat landing on a s...

So it was a pretty cruisy trip down to Rotorua, best seat in the house - right at the front. This town is known as the home of maori cultural experiences in New Zealand, so is a major stop-off for anyone interested in learning a bit about maori lifestlye in pre-Pakeha days. Before we arrived we stopped off in 'Hobbiton', also known as Matamata, ...

Opted for a campsite again today, too scary to pull over anywhere else here, Rotorua is known for break ins and gang culture. It was $34 well spent anyways, cause I'm getting a shower with underfloor heating tomorrow. What a luxury! Sitting in the van heating our red wine with the blow heater, about to plan tomorrows events. Hoping to find Keros...

Hello all, I thought passing back through Christchurch to return the car would be uneventful but it turned into a crazy night. We got back to Christchurch around 11:30 pm and had to be up the next morning to drop off the car and catch our flight. Greg and I were both tired but we decided to meet Ena (the girl that we met on my birthday) for one ...

This morning we went to Whakarewarewa Thermal Village to the the 'Prince of Wales Feathers' Geyser.... I have a pic of it, but it is a picture of a picture as we didnt go inside the village.... it was too pricey... so we spent far too much money of Maori wood craft to make up for it!

Well here we are in Rotorua, probably the only place in New Zealand that I had heard of outside of the cities. I've been trying to put little map pins in to trace our route through NZ so far, but it's too bloody hard. You know, all these beautiful clear nights camping at beaches start to blend into each other after a while... So we had a good ti...

Hey!! Well have been in the place that they like to call 'Sulphur City' for the last few days, officially known as Rotorua. The city is a geothermal area and the sulphur really makes it always smell of egg! Alot of people cant stand it but after growing up with 2 older brothers, i've smelt much worse :) The city centre itself is not that special...

Today I explored Rotorua - went to Kairu Park, which stunk to high heavens and then went for a trek around the lake. I was hoping there would be markets on at the foreshore but unfortunately they don't run on Wednesdays. So I continued along the lake and saw some thermal activity and funny looking birds. They are called Pukekos and have purple-b...