Wanaka Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Wanaka..... We made it! We made it to Wanaka! Down South and cold but we are here! Wanaka is a small town in the middle of nowhere, expensive as ever catering to over 6500 different tourest everyweek. The locals charge outrageous amounts for everything and anything that they can. There is only one grocery store in the town and you can guarentee ...

However, the campsite we did find after the most beautiful and amazingly spectacular drive through the stunning Kiwi countryside between Haas and Wanaka was better- at least it was next door to a pub with a huge log fire and Monteiths Original Ale on tap! Really, the most incredible scenery we have seen (Abel Tasman National Park as the exceptio...

The next day was Emma's birthday! On our way to the town of Wanaka. We first stopped for breakfast at a little cafe near a lake and beautiful views. We dropped off Abby to do a skydive here as well! She's a gorgeous 18 yr old English whom I nicknamed supermodel. We had our breakfast and sat around contemplating doing the walk to the lake, it was...

Today was an early bus, 8am, to Wanaka. The bus ride was only about 1.5hrs, which I managed to sleep through a fair bit of. I wasn't able to check into the hostel straight away, they asked me to come back at 2pm. So I went in search of some breakfast. I grabbed some from the supermarket in the end, and headed down to the lakeside. Before I knew ...

It is still raining as we leave Franz Josef for Haast. Haast has nothing to recommend it! Just lots of whitebait and millions of sandflies. Luckily, only the females bite! We did drive down to Jackson Point for a tea break and a whitebait sandwich, a short walk on the beach and photos of a tree called a Rata that took Steph's fancy. Still rainin...

Wanaka is a beautiful little town on the shores of its eponymous lake. It is known for being a haven of peace and tranquility. Except for New Year, when all the hoons from Dunedin and Invercargill descend upon it, being loud and driving too fast. The queue of teenagers outside Subway seemed to go round the block- so we headed upstairs to the Ree...

We bid a sad farewell to Fiordland today. I could have happily spent 10 times as long there, tramping the tracks and fending off sandflies. Our journey took us back past Queenstown, to Arrowtown (half carpark, half former gold rush settlement with 19th century buildings that is very popular with tourists), over the highest sealed road in the cou...

Leaving Te Anau to head northwards on our journey up to Christchurch we passed close to Queenstown again before stopping for the night at Wanaka, a pretty mountain town we had passed earlier situated on the shores of Lake Wanaka. Exhausted from the previous days scenery overload we decided to try something fun, a visit to Stuart Landsborough's P...

Steven Curtis turns 37 today. We had a leisurely morning and headed up to Treble Cone. I'm telling you, the road is more insane than anything I've ever been on to a public place. I wish I could load pictures, but the computer I'm on is on lock down. I'll add some as soon as I can. It was a bluebird for sure. The sun is super intense. The ozone l...

18.03 - This morning, I didn't really get up to much. I paid for another night's accommodation and found that my fleece jacket had arrived already. From then until about dinner time, I was just talking to Lisa who was doing a skydive today, or just played about with my camera. It is really good and I am pleased with it even though it cost me a f...