Auckland City Hotel Hobson

... looks and feel are somewhere between Sydney for the harbour and Adelaide for the athmosphere, so we are actually rather fond of Auckland. We got to our hotel very late, they call it the graveyard flight, as we got here at 2am and actually had a sleep ...

... lille shuttle-bus, der kørte os ind til down town, til det hotel, hvor vi havde reserveret et værelse. Hotellet hedder Auckland City Hotel Hobson Street og ligger et par gader fra byens vartegn Skytower. Skytower er 328 meter højt, og det er muligt at ...

... for another day of adventuring tomorrow.   we are very much looking forward to exploring the rest of New Zealand. Auckland is exciting but doesn't seem to have too much about it. It almost seems like another British city......climate is similar, ...

... déjà 5 heures de retard sur l’itinéraire prévu, et je n’ai toujours pas dormi. On est finalement arrivé a Auckland airport ou nous attendait le contrôle des douanes et leur devise favorite « y’a pas le feu au lac », ce ...

... had three distinct "vibes" as you moved from the wharf inland.  First, I focused on the marina district.  Auckland is known as the "city of sails" and the marina is packed with restaurants and bars filled with the yacht crowd and the wannabe ...

... under the Vikings, under the Mediaeval Kings and Queens, under the industrialists, under the Blitz. It has its own beauty. Auckland has history, of course - Maori occupation of the area dates back 800 years - but modern settlement didn’t occur ...

... which dates back to 1840 when William Hobson then Governor of New Zealand arrived on the 'HMS Herald’ and established Auckland as New Zealand's capital [short-lived].  Today it is an important administrative centre for the Royal New Zealand ...

Having both slept well we have coffee and breakfast before showering and venturing out into Auckland City centre... the hotel is a great location we can see Sky Tower and it's a 5 minute walk away... the harbour and city 10 minutes away.... the weather ...

... home. Still we met up fine in our hotel lobby and headed to their house for dinner. They lived in a great area of Auckland, ??Pihau?? and I was surprised by how green it was. Infact it was almost rainforest like. There was a very nice village centre with ...

... nbsp;which is in pride of place in the front garden. Our hotel were able to check us in early so Damon gave us a lift in to Auckland centre stopping at Mount Eden on the way where we got a great view of the city. We arranged to meet up with Damon and Will ...

... much.  Mostly napped in 1-2 hour segments.  Arrival time was 5am, so airport was unusually quiet. Took the shuttle into city and my hotel.  Kind of woozy from the jet lag, but managed to stay awake the whole day.  Weather was cool ...

... , thank you for not breaking down on us!! So now we don't have a van feels a bit odd but we checked into the Hotel and had a wonder round the City, Auckland is a big city and the Sky Tower is huge, we watched a few crazy people jump off the tower on a zip ...

Um 06:30 Uhr sind wir in Auckland angekommen. Der Flughafen ist nicht sonderlich riesig, aber das ist ja auch nichts Negatives. Bei der Einreise wurden wir von verschiedenen Hunden der Polizei nach Drogen und Essen beschnuppert. Auch mussten wir angeben, ...

I've arrived in Auckland! I'm only here for one night before I get the coach down to Okahune to meet up with Laura. I've decided to treat myself and stay in a hotel near the bus station. Its lovely, I've got a queens size bed, tv and room service what ...

........we've never been this far away from home!"......we sang through arrivals at Auckland airport (maybe not quite as tuneful as the Kaiser Chiefs though!) Flight was sound enough and the weather in Auckland is a comfortable 23degs. We both managed to ...

... not were a sleep while others were on their phones... why??!!! After we return back to the harbour we decide to venture back to the hotel for some warm clothes as we plan to take the boat across to Devonport tonight for dinner! As we head back out do the ...

... , by foot!  I walked through the city, starting at Queen Street, the quay, then went by Albert Park, the University, the Auckland Domain, and then walked to Mount Eden which was awesome to walk up, and the views were great!  Cows were even along ...

... my options of getting to the hotel.... of course I opt for one of the easiest... shuttle bus with trailer direct drop off at the hotel...  here I find myself chatting to a nice guy whom seems to be doing my trip in reverse, was good to get tips and ...

Am heutigen Tag sind wir von Christchurch zurück nach Auckland geflogen, um dort morgen unsere Rückreise nach Deutschland anzutreten. Endlich angekommen, war vom Tag leider nicht mehr allzu viel übrig. Aber es reichte dennoch aus, um noch eine Sache, ...