Napier Motels - Reviews and Rates

Well at last I have found some time to catch up with the blog! We left Sydney Saturday morning bright and early, making sure we left plenty of time to check in and have a good breakfast at the airport before our flight over to Auckland. However, Sydney Airport obviously had other plans for us - queues like you have never seen at check-in! took u...

Woke up late this morning and frantically made my way down to the YHA to get picked up by the Magic Bus. It was really cloudy/misty when we left Wellington. Not too many people on the bus, maybe 12? As usual, the bus ride made me drowsy so I slept for a lot of the ride to Napier. We stopped at Mt Bruce bird center, I had a hot chocolate there, d...

Tuesday 4 November Off Napier S 39° 24.5' E 176° 58.4' Fine weather, slow sailing and eventually anchored off Napier around lunchtime. I guess that the one large-ship berth is occupied until later. Having spent a couple of days there, I'm more relaxed about it than I was a few weeks ago, when I was keen to get ashore and start the New Zealand ph...

July 20th This morning we ( mom and me ) woke up early (7:30) so that we could drive down to Napier and Catch one of the morning church services. We went to St. Paul's Presbeterian church and met up with Colin and Barbra Engliah, Colin being the minister of the church, Barbra being his wife. The congragation was very nice and welcomed us with op...

We packed up early on Easter Monday morning and drove the 2 hours to Picton for our 1pm sailing back to Wellington, unfortunately we remembered late on Easter Sunday evening we had bought dessert to go with our Easter dinner and it was due to go out of date the next day. I say unfortunately because it was high in chocolate which made sleep diffi...

We spent the long Easter weekend in Napier. It's our 4th visit there since August, and it's just such a lovely, relaxing spot on the East coast, with great weather (normally) and lots of wineries to visit. We drove up on Good Friday and arrived around lunchtime. It's a 4hr drive from Wellington, but it was a glorious day and not much traffic so ...

We had breakfast at the hotel, then packed up and went to the supermarket before setting out for Napier. It was raining at first, but soon cleared up and we enjoyed some scenic views as we drove through the mountains. We stopped for a picnic lunch then continued to Napier. Rhian had chosen a good hotel, right on the ocean with a double whirlpool...

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...

It rained all day on the 31st, which didn't bode well for New Years Eve, but luckily towards the evening it cleared up. We went on the Hawkes Bay Cat, New Years Eve cruise. We boarded at 7pm and got a complimentary glass of wine(or juice). There was a bar downstairs and dancefloor, along with tables and chairs, and also an outside seating area. ...

Hi All Well what a nice place Napier is - one of the most chilled out laid back citys I have ever visited. I have been doing just that here for the last few days. A great place to relax and enjoy the weather, with a nice walk along the beach front too. As always, I have found an Irish pub or two and had a great Friday evening in them - I even en...