Rotorua Inns - Reviews and Rates

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. ...

Rotorua is one busiest tourist spots in the north island with thousands coming to visit the thermal springs, lakes and see the bubbling mud and geysers. The smell of rotten eggs creeps deeper up the nostrils the closer you get to Rotorua and steam can often be seem rising out of the ground. Many of the more active areas cost about NZ$20 just to ...

The smell is potent...I won't go into to much detail but this place smells like ass.. Apparently a geezer isn't just some thug of an English bloke...The only consolation is that you do get used to it, well as much as you can. Once we arrived in Rotorua, we had done our Lonely Planet/ BBH (sorry backpacker talk!!) research, we checked into Cactus...

For better or worse, it's raining in Queenstown and no matter what else New Zealand offers, it's not a fun place to be stuck in a van when it's hammering out of the heavens. So rather than risk certain death on the luge, or a slow death at the indoor mini golf, I figured I'd try to nibble a little of the 'bit off more than I could chew' promise ...

Left Paihia and headed to Rotorua via Auckland to pick up even more people and lose the old trip. Its cool that the bus is now full of people that aren't leaving in a few hours - we're all starting to bond and have a laugh. Rotorua is awesome - am sharing a room with a Belgian Ruth and an American Amy. We have a HOT TUB in the room. First thing ...

Kia Ora from Rotorua, a town in New Zealand's north island. Since our last blog we've been up to all sorts of stupidity so where should I begin? Let's try Dunedin. We signed off last time intending to visit the Cadbury factory and go on a wildlife tour. We did both and we now know how they make chocolate (combining milk, sugar and cocoa beans pr...

Loads of Maori here, and as such we went to do a bit of cultural learning - we tried some beetroot chutney and learnt about the Maori's arrival in NZ. Then three of us rolled down a hill in a giant inflatable ball with a load of water. It was like being in a washing machine (I imagine), is called Zorbing and was fantastic fun! It was so silly, a...

We set out on the long drive, stopping at the Manukau shopping centre just south of Auckland before continuing south to Rotorua, the city of thermal activity and smelling of sulphur, nice. The girls (Emma, Bek and Jenny) insisted that a visit to Hell's Gate mud pools was compulsory...Bek had read that it takes 10 years off you so it was worth a ...

Thames, my first stop in the Coromandel peninsula, is the gateway to the Coromandel forest and the Kauaeranga Valley. An impressive hiking trail leads me along amazing gorges and ancient rock features such as The Pinnacles, formed by volcanic forces. The Coromandel rainforest was once dominated by the giant kauri trees, but most of them are gone...

And so we sailed from the South Island to the North Island from Picton. Not much to recommend in Picton apart from the ferry terminal but unless you want to get a dinghy and try and catch the boat in mid-voyage, you gotta go there. We arrived there a wee bit early for the crossing and as it was around lunch time and we were by the sea, we got so...