Hokitika Lodges - Reviews and Rates

The least diverse town visited so far.  Cynthia had quite a few stares her way at the local supermarket.  Found a nice place on the beach to stay.  Got in just in time to head out for a walk along the beach for the first and maybe only sunset along the coast we'll get.  

As it was bound to happen, it did.  So much for the thought that police didn't patrol the roads.  Got a bit spoiled during the drive through the mountains and by the time we came over the crest in the road, we'd been clocked over the element.  Suppose the slower speeds on the straights aren't such a bad idea...the roads offer plenty of curves to...

After leaving James in Queenstown we drove over to the West Coast and northwards to reach Hokitika. Seems like we're always on the road at the moment, but most of the things to see are spaced apart and because there's so little traffic it's an easy ride. Lake Wanaka was beautiful, remined us of places around Bariloche in Argentina. Lots of mount...

This morning the prediction for the weather at the west coast was still fine, so we left Kaikoura, heading to the Lewis pass and the to the Northwest to see the Pancake rocks in Punakaiki. We had some great rides, even though it was raining until we reached the Lewis pass. That was expected. The roads were empty and good conditions, so the rain ...

Somewhere to lay our head for the night. Had a fish and chip supper on ther beach.and watched the sunset on the beach.

Hello! Sorry it's been a while since our last post, time is of the essence now and we're trying to cram as much into our last week here as possible. We successfully caught the ferry to Picton and it was very very slow. The view would have been quite something but that dastardly fog was with us again. We got picked up by a nice chap in a blue van...

We arrived in Hokitika and checked into Stumpers that doesn't sound the best but our room turned out to have a TV in it so Aldo was most pleased! We took a walk down to the beach which was really pretty the sea was really angry and the waves were huge. We were just heading back into town when we bumped into the Belgian guys who we had did the se...

We arrived at the worlds smallest hostel following a fairly hefty days driving. Our host (Gordon) turned out to be a jade carver, and ran a small workshop in his garden shed. After showing us some of his work he managed to persuade us to part with our money in exchange for 'The Jade Experience'. We designed our piece which he then carved out of ...

I was fast turning into Charlotte's lucky charm, as we woke to a completely blue sky on Tuesday morning - absolutely perfect conditions for her proposed heli-hike. It was really hot too, with the temperature touching 20 degrees - another factor that vindicated my move up north, as the freezing Invercargill was still fresh in my mind! While Charl...

We left Franz Josef glacier to head to Hokitika, the next decent sized town along the West Coast, to find a pub to watch the rugby again. This time it was Lions v NZ Maori and we lost it narrowly 19-13, but we did make some new Kiwi friends in the process. After the game we then drove towards Greymouth to find a spot to camp. Graham managed to g...