Christchurch Inns - Reviews and Rates

After leaving Sydney for New Zealand our first port of call was to be Christchurch and the south Island. Originally we had planned to spend a month doing New Zealand and in a camper van, but we had to reassess those plans with still a lot of ground to cover after NZ. We arrived in Christchurch just after 10am (it was only about a 2 ¾ hr flight) ...

Weather better but still fresh. We have been enjoying the wonderfully polically incorrect breakfast TV presenter who has been having an ongoing rant about malformed biscuits (Cameo creams: a bit like custard creams) and as a result viewers have been sending in pictures of their misshapen biscuits. He has been advocating dwarf tossing and so it g...

The next day we set off for Christchurch the main city on the South Island. As we drove into the city we passed the Antarctic museum which not only offers more blue penguins (though these ones have been rescued and so are a bit special in places). It also offers a chill room that emulates mild conditions of an arctic storm, it was bloody freezin...

New Zealand is the country where we are spending most time, 4 weeks in total, split 50:50 between North and South Islands. We are in the South Island to start with 2 night (1.5 days) in the South Island largest city and NZ oldest city - Christchurch. Despite being the largest city on the South Island Christchurch is fairly small, no bigger than ...

Woke up early this morning to witness a blue sky in Christchurch for the first time, for me. I took advantage of the beautiful sleepy, sunny Sunday morning and went for a long walk along the river Avon, soaking in the green and the sun and the quiet. Then I made my way out to the airport where I picked up a rental van and ran into 3 travelers fr...

So my first day on the job was quite interesting. Basically, I became the person I hated. My job: stop as many people as possible in the mall and try to get them to sign up for month to month donations for Unicef. I tried to stay as open minded as possible; I was working for a great company doing something that would eventually teach me valuable...

I flew to New Zealand to start my tour of the South Island. I'm only in the country for 3 weeks, so i reckon i'll only get to see the South Island while i'm here. I shall upload photos at a later date. Christchurch is the first place and it's really nice here. Not a great deal to do, but the Buskers festival is making it worth while staying to s...

This is a test to see if this is working! I am getting VERY excited. We have 19 days till we leave NZ...I have 7 days left at work. Paul has 7 days left of his course, three of which will be practical cooking exams. Our final weeks are looking something like this: 8/9 Dec - Kaikoura to meet up with Mike and Max (and our car!). 10/11 Dec - I have...

Christchurch Well...every place that we go to can not be excited and wonderful and amazing....and this is the first stop we have had where I have felt that way. Christchurch is a quite, English city with English street names (Oxford, Cambridge etc) and no shortage of churches and cathedrals. Perhaps my judgment is clouded by the cloudy sky that ...

Well we arrived as usual tired and midly hungover....had a walk around Christchurch after checking into Base Backpackers. nice room but bit smelly as full of boys!Christchurch is nice but it was very cold! Early night for us, although one inconsiderate roomie woke us up at 5am to pack her bags!! not funny! but looks like we are going to enjoy Ne...