Rotorua Motels - Reviews and Rates

Lordy, Lordy.

This day was always going to start too early. The alarm went off at 8am. I wanted to murder it.

Amanda had a pretty limited time in NZ - only a few days - so she felt honour-bound to go horse riding as she'd previously planned. However, for me, it was very much the day after the night before and not a bone in my body ...

DIA 1 (Pato) El dia no pudo comenzar mejor: viendo la victoria de Espana en la Eurocopa desde la cama de la caravana, como reinonas! no pudimos evitar la emocion y, por supuesto, esa noche lo celebramos con champagne neozelandes. Despues quisimos tener nuestro encuentro con los kiwis, esos pajarillos tan raros sin alas y culogordos, pero muy gra...

Refreshed from our caving experience we headed towards Rotorua which is another very thermally active region in the centre of the North Island, we knew we were getting close when the familiar sulphur stench came wafting through Jake's air vents. We parked up in the very central Top 10 campsite and after doing some laundry we walked into town in...

We slept very well in one of the most comfortble beds of the trip. We liked The Hobbit Hotel at Woodlyn Park and would stay there again. We had breakfast, from the supplies bought at Woolworth's, then headed out into the misty overcast morning. Today we were going to The Shire's Rest, for our tour of Hobbiton, then on to Rotorua. But first... We...

Between the mountains of the central plateau all the way out to the Bay of Plenty, covering both Taupo and Rotorua is one of the most active thermal areas in New Zealand. Geothermal springs, hotpools and steaming mud abound and produce some very exotic looking landscapes and formations usually involving bright colours and lots of steam. We trave...

Although we could have spent even longer in Taupo we thought it was time to move on and so early on Saturday morning we headed north to Wai-O-Tapu; a geothermal reserve owned by the department of conservation and is apparently the most concentrated area of geothermal activity in New Zealand. The first sight of our walking tour of the park was th...

Today i visited Whakarewarewa just outside Rotorua for a specially developed guided walk through a historic Maori village and geothermal area; I got to make my own local style traditional meal. I then travelled to Taupo where I encountered upon on sledging down a river which was rather scary especially when the rafters came down and took me unde...

Nick - It took us a few days, but we finally got around to visiting the main reason for both the amount of tourists and the awful smell in Rotorua, the geysers at Te Puia. We spent the morning wondering around the park which alongside numerous geysers also sported a some mud pools, a Maori woodcarving shop and Kiwi house. Unfortunately a lot of ...

Rotorua Rotorua is famous for it's living volcanic activities. You know you are near Rotoura, when you keep asking each other "did you just ****?" - Yes the Sulphur fumes are POTANT but the thermal parks are amazing. See pictures. To give you an idea how the locals use the thermal waters from the activity around - Our camp site had heated camp g...

My New Zealand tour has well and truly begun. Ross, Siobhan, Chris and I loaded up TROGDOR on Friday evening and we set off for a late arrival in Rotorua. We've spent a lovely weekend here with grand weather, good food and great company. We planned a nostalgic film weekend where each of us selected a movie from our childhood. Superman and The Ka...