South Island Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Today I got back to Queenstown. Before we left Wanaka though Tara and I had a chat about the possibility of us going on a little holiday to Fiji, we've found some really good packages with a company called Awesome Adventures - we saw them in Paihia too, so they must be decent. So if we can find some cheap flights we are gonna be going to Fiji fo...

Hej med jer!   Så er der vist gået tid nok siden jeg sidst skrev på min blog. Det er ved at være en måned siden jeg var i Australien. I denne omgang har jeg uploadet billeder fra min tur til Queenstown. Det er efterhånden også et stykke tid siden, så det kniber lidt med at huske... Der var to årsager til at jeg tog til Queenstown. 1. Bungy jumpe...

So they have a pool competition every Wednesday at Harry's Bar. $10 entry and a free drink plus a few games of pool. There were 6 entrants including John and myself. Unfortuanately my first game was against the Malaysian guy with a magic glove. He potted from the break and then proceeded to 7 ball me. I didn't even get a shot. I hope that Colin ...

Well John finally succumbed to the adrenilin come-on posters that cajole you from almost every wall in this town. You can't even take a pee here without being faced with a dare to "Embrace The Fear at 15000ft" So this afternoon he lept from a plane at 12,000ft for a tandem skydive with N-Zone. He's perfectly ok though, I just had a pint of Guinn...

We drove to Queenstown, which is the adrenaline capital of the South Island and in the winter is a big ski resort. We had a couple of days there and watched some bungy jumps (still didn't feel like trying it!). We also got a cable car up the mountain there and went for a few rides on the luge, which was good fun and cheap too! Next we drove to W...

what a place... Queenstown is the New Zealand destination for international visitors. Its natural beauty changes with the seasons, the lake gleans in the summer sun, and snow clad mountains tower above the township in winter. Queenstown is a great place to visit all year round. Nestled in beside the mysterious Lake Wakatipu (note that this is th...

I know this is becoming a bit of a habit, but can I just start this pod by saying Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow! Right now thats out of the way, I can tell you why. I have just done a bungy jump. Me, Gemma Matthews, who is completely scared of hights has just jumped off a ledge over Queenstown with a 400m drop (although the bungy was only 47m), which incol...

We are now in the adventure capital of New Zealand, Queenstown. So far we've spent most of our time chilling out a bit and looking round the town. It's a beautiful setting and not nearly as commercial as I was expecting given all the hype in the guide books. The town is set on the side of a massive lake with mountains surrounding. The have a cab...

After the heart-stopping excitement of Christchurch, on to the self-styled adventure capital of the world, Queenstown. Certainly it's heritage for excitement is fairly impressive - it was here the AJ Hackett invented Bungy Jumping and it was also here that jet boats were developed. Here also marks almost exactly the halfway point in my trip, not...

The hostel we were staying in for the last 2 nights was fully booked out for the weekend so we had to move across the road and check in there. We're in an 8 bed dorm which I hate but who cares eh? We decided to make up for our severe lack of activities the day before and all booked in for the shotover jet. I had bee on the Huka jet up in Taupo l...