Copthorne Oriental Bay

... a bit of time to dock bows to. Our cases off the carosel first, so grabbed a taxi and got ourselves to the Copthorne on the front at Oriental Bay. Started to rain, but eased when we went into town for dinner. Up at 0400, when the fire alarm went off and ...

... of street names, turn left, turn right, sort of instructions. Not ours - "The motorway flows into Wellington and Oriental Bay is well signposted. The Copthorne Hotel is a large building on Oriental Parade near the Te Papa museum". All very Zen, eh? But we ...

... different areas, and the various film projects they had worked on. All very interesting! We then had some lunch out at Scorching Bay where we were treated to a sunny day at the beach. Then from there we attended various other scene locations from ...

Today we wandered down passed the waterfront and up Bunny Street to the political centre of the country. It was from there that we grabbed our first glimpses of the building known affectionately as the "Beehive" emerging from amongst the treeline. ...

After enjoying breakfast at our hotel restaurant we ventured out early to begin making most of our first day in Wellington. Our first stop was the national museum, Te Papa, which was a mere 500 metres away: I was impressed to see that the building had ...

Today we travelled the five and a half hours by car from Rotorua down to Wellington. About an hour south of Rotorua we travelled alongside Lake Taupo: a caldera created by a supervolcanic eruption which occurred approximately 26,500 years ago. The ...

Today we have had a change from driving and walked and walked round Wellington. It's been nice to have tired legs rather than a sore bum! The weather isn't as kind as yesterday and it's much cloudier, though the sun has put in the odd appearance. At ...