Napier Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Normal 0 11/04 Just change my job this wed, now working in a apple pack house. It is a 7am to 7pm job, long hours but free from the element; don't have to worry about rain, coldness in the morning and the UV ray. I missed some of the friends in the orchard especially since they have no idea of us leaving. Changing to new environment equal meetin...

Ok so we were only here for a night, and we had a tv and dvd player in our room so once dinner time hit we didnt really leave it and watched films all night. But we did walk around the town as it has been built around a Art deco theme and there were lots of charleston shops so it was all quite novel! Would have liked to have got there earlier in...

The whole area around Napier (Hawkes Bay) is full of vineyards. We set off in the morning to visit two. If you had a driver who didn't drink, you could spend days moving from one vineyard to the next trying the complementary tastings. The first we visited was Church Road vineyard which we arrived at just in time for a tour. The tour first took ...

Here are the photos I took on the Great Barrier Reef. Most aren't mine , they came on the disk and I'm using this to back them up. I'm also assured that with a little Photoshop'ing all the colour will come back into them!

After the Bay of Islands we started heading south again. On the way back to Auckland we stopped in at the Sawmill Cafe in Leigh, a neat little place on the coast near Goat Island. This is another great diving and snorkelling spot, in fact on a clear, calm day you can just watch the fish from the rocks without even having to get your feet wet! Un...

We arrived in Napier and it looked like something straight out of Back to the Future with all it's 1950's style Art Deco buildings. It was really pretty. We took a trip to the award winning aquarium which was pretty good and then to Opposum World - possibly the worst tourist attraction ever! It was basically a shop selling possum pelts that were...

We must apologise for the lack of photos for this entry, which is either because we were too inebriated or too wet to bother! However, as one vineyard looks pretty much like another, we think you'll get the idea from the couple we did manage to take in the "dry" moments (photos to be added soon)! We travelled from the West coast to Christchurch ...

Another walk along the beach added to the collection of driftwood-how Nikki was going to get it out the country was another matter. The regulations are very strict and when posting a parcel overseas, we had learnt that we have to declare what is in the package. It soon became apparent on our journey from west coast to east coast that the North I...

There was a surfer dude from Taunton named Steve sharing my room on the second night. He was off to Gisborn the next day and had to go via Napier so said he'd give me a lift for $10. As the weather wasn't great I decided to accept and skip the hitching in the rain! We made our way through the beautiful landscape chatting about one thing and anot...