South Island Resorts - Reviews and Rates

Had some great skiing at Coronet Peak - 60 cm of new snow in last few days.

Seriously, after the rat-race this village is heaven. Everything is within walking distance - after Dorkland [read: Auckland], this is how life should be ...........not sitting in a traffic snarl 2 hours a day.

Get dammed hungry with all this exercise. Eat...

No one really woke up that early, except for me and Rob who were disturbed by some very loud Australians getting ready to go out skiing/boarding at about 8 in the morning.

We all went out to Ferg-Burger at about midday, though some of us opted for lighter options, before ditching the idea of climbing up a massive hill and luging for a low...

Day 51

Today I went with Jo to watch her do her canyon swing. It was mental, she was attached to a harness and then dropped off the platform, plummeting and then swinging through the canyon. She seemed to really enjoy it and the video was really amusing as the staff were winding her up as they do with all the people who do it. Then after ...

Again the weather seemed to be holding for us. Another day of brilliant sunshine awaited. Although it never got too warm and sun only stuck around for 8 hours or so, it being winter this far south. It's quite nice though, all day the light remains like this sort of twilight colour, like the day never gets going. Anyway, we weren't long out of Te...

Yes helllooo!!!! queenstown indeed , and half of the background and sets for the lord of the rings trilogy. Yes its amazing and so are the the remarkables mountain range , to be quite honest this is the best scenery i ever seen , its so , wow , awe inspiring . So after we pick up are jaws from the floor , from the jaw dropping scene , we check i...

Oops forgot to mention on the previous entry that we also visited the Coromandel which had fab scenery, but not so great weather, and we had an awesome trip out to the Gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers near Napier, where we pulled along the beach on wagons by a tractor, great fun, hopefully I will get round to putting a photo up at some stage. An...

Queenstown - The Adventure Sports Capital of the World !!! What a crazy place !!! I got the 7 hour Atomic Shuttle bus down form Fox Glazier on the 28th of Jan and after my few days of Rehab up there I was planning on getting the adrenaline pumping with a canyon swing and jet boat trip but in the booking office I lost the run of myself and decide...

Happy New Year everybody! I've a bit more time now the New Years celebrations are done and dusted so I'll bung on a load of photies today. The cricket was surprisingly exciting, hmmm, well, the end was. The sun managed to put his hat on and so it was a cracking afternoon. New Zealand fielded first and got off to a flyer getting a wicket after 4 ...

Oh my goodness, serious business has been going down. I challenged my newly found friend Caroline (from Holland, but has been travelling with the Canadian girls) to a dance off tonight. What I was thinking, not too sure!! But it's going to be tomorrow night to a Michael Jackson tune, and I'm scared. I'm really scared. Any advice?? I'm trying to ...

Hello. I did manage to get to Queenstown and visit Eamon in his new home. I uploaded some pics from his house since it was free (that is a very positive atribute to any internet connection for me now). Yesterday we took a helicopter ride above Queenstown, it was awesome! I chose that acompany cause they did 90% of the LOTR helicopter work. That ...