Auckland Ranches - Reviews and Rates

It felt good to wake up in Auckland with nothing planned. I could do whatever I wanted - as soon as I figured out what there was to choose from. I probably wouldn't have planned on more than a night in Auckland if it hadn't been for Miekes. We met on a scuba course in Koh Tao, Thailand and when I went home she continued on to Auckland, settling ...

We arrived in New Zealand late at night, so stayed in the airport hotel there, which was a nice treat. We were so excited to be there. Our first day in New Zealand was a glorious sunny, but cold day. We moved to our hostel in the centre of Auckland and explored the city. We spent our first couple of days shopping for warm clothes, waterproof jac...

Wednesday Today we leave Taupo to go to Auckland - the city of sails. We got picked up by our favourite driver Rob who we thought had already stopped working for Stray. It turned out today was his last day. On the bus, Julie put her organisational skills to use again and organised a night out with complete strangers!!! We arrived in Auckland and...

New Zealand was awesome ... again. Having travelled the lands of Frodo 6 years ago the place has had some subtle changes (more people and updated music), but the thing that remains the same is its natural beauty and this was the part that i was so looking forward to showing Lou. we didn't stay long in Aukland, we are not really the city types - ...

Well now with the South Island behind me I hopped on to the Inter Islander ferry for the journey across the Milford Sound from Picton to Wellington. The crossing took about 3 hours. On arrival at Wellington was meet by Andy and the kids, Clare was in Brisbane on a girls weekend! and was transported to the best hotel in NZ Chez Ladd, for an eveni...

New Zealand once had more sheep than the population of Great Britain and I'd only been here 2 hours when I was involved in the feeding of 2 of them. Little Aislin (7) and Erin (3) are hand-rearing 2 little pet lambs and I was allowed to hold the leads. An hour later I was eating a fantastic roast lamb dinner and I was assured that it wasn't a fo...

Hi All, Since we last updated you we had a lazy day on Thursday mainly due to Cheryl seeing the chiropractor. We did however fit in a couple of hours at the Auckland Museum, very interesting exhibits on the pacific Islands, Maouri life and volcano's. We then walked through the Auckland Domain taking in the winter gardens much to Peters upset :o)...

Auckland airport for 8 hour stopover. Pouring with rain outside - too miserable to bother leaving the airport so plenty of time to finish up the travel blog and finish our game of 'Frustration'. This time tomorrow I'll be back at work - how depressing - not really. Next weekend we'll have a big family get-together to celebrate Kylie and Eric's e...

Back into Auckland in preperation for the Big Day Out. Met up with Mat at the hostel, then proceeded to have a few drinks round Parnell with Matt, Christina and Andy - the latter two being off Matts flight out here. A few drinks turned into a trip into the Centre of Auckland and a night out around Viaduct Harbour - ending in general drinking, ca...

So the final day in Auckland has come. And what a day it was! It started with Cato and Kevin doing a bungy jump from the Auckland Harbour Bridge, a 40-meter dive from the bridge towards the water! Anne came along as spectator, so we all got to do a bit of brige-climbing before reaching the point where Kevin and Cato were to throw themselves of t...