Christchurch Lodges - Reviews and Rates

The next stop on our journey was to Christchurch. It's the South Island's largest city. Christchurch is a beautiful city near the water. Half the city is a huge domain park with excellent botanical gardens and rose gardens. We stayed just outside of the city center for 4 nights, right near the beach. I was ready for a cabin so the first night th...

Our last day in our camper van took us down the east coast from just north of Kaikoura, rainy and grey, but had brisk walk out to the point, more seals ,but no whales, then on south. More spectacular driving and had an excellent lunch at the cafe attached to Waipara Springs Winery. Another tasting of some excellent wines, and good lunch, this c...

This past weekend was my first trip outside Dunedin. The entire group that went on this trip consisted of around 25 international students traveling in 4 different vans (some vehicles were very questionable). I rented a van for cheap and me and six others traveled together in this van for 10hrs, 5 each way. We left about 10am on saturday, and af...

My flight over to Christchrch was pretty comfortable as I had 3 seats all to myself! It was pretty late when I arrived so straight to the hostel and straight to bed.

Our last two days in New Zealand were spent in Christchurch, which is remarkably like an English town (intentionally I believe), with many of the streets named after towns in the UK. For example, our hostel was on Manchester Street and there are both Oxford and Cambridge Terraces (personally, I think that Oxford Terrace looked nicer than Cambrid...

So yeah, we kinda had to sleep in our first day in New Zealand because I could not get to sleep until like 2am. When we finally got up our first stop was the city's main Visitor Centre in Catherdral Square. It is here where we planned our next week in New Zealand. I have to tell you I am really excited with what we got planned. You will have to ...

The bus today was the busiest that we had seen it for all the time that we'd been in New Zealand, I think that's probably because a lot of people end their trip in Christchurch and then fly to their next destination. Our journey today saw us heading away from the Alps and around the edges of MacKenzie Country, or at least that's what it says in ...

Rain rain rain. We wave farewell to our delightful hostel and head in the direction of Christchurch, the Garden city. Its pouring in the city. We drive up and down the streets posting our car for sale ad's in each and every internet cafe we encounter. The streets are named Manchester, Liverpool, Gloucester etc so you are left in no doubt where t...

After returning to Christchurch we had but a couple of days before the gang all went its seperate ways. Thanks to young Jack, we managed to get tickets to the final of the Super 12s which was an entertaining night out although I got the feeling our English supporter style antics was the main form of amusement for everyone else! The next day the ...

Cold? Cold? u bet it's cold! I got up this morning in my sleeping bag and i could see my breath hovering overhead!! Oh and don't bother with the gloating e-mails about the apparent heat wave covering the UK at present, I have had it all many times B4. One thing i have experienced for the first time and is not to laughed at is Jet-lag!! Boy is it...