Hotel Grand Chancellor Christchurch

Accomodation: Grand Chancellor Hotel - An older, but upscale hotel.  I'd stayed here before but this time we opted for one of their remodeled, upgraded rooms.  Definitley worth the extra expense!  Nice location if you're on foot, everything ...

... dus daar hoefde we ons ook geen zorgen meer over te maken. Na een paar minuten rijden werden we voor de deur van het Grand Chancellor Hotel afgezet. Een erg luxe hotel! We waren er al rond 1 uur, en we konden pas inchecken vanaf 2. We hebben dus onze ...

... keys off me and parked the car in the multi-storey next door. For a change we are abandoning Copthorne and are in the Hotel Grand Chancellor, just a few hundred yards from the Cathedral Square and the centre of the city. They have put us on the 19th foor, ...

We spent 1 night in Christchurch, which is the largest city on the South Island.. We stayed at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, which was in the city center. We managed to kick up our heels in the big city. We really enjoyed our time here and wished we would ...

... art class display.  This is what happens when you give a plastic baby doll to a goth-punk artist!   Christchurch's pedestrian mall area is bigger than most American cities offer so after my cultural excursion I spent most of ...

... nbsp;I decided to buy a ticket for tonight’s show. I continued searching for caches and found 2 while walking through the Christchurch Botanical Gardens AND Hagely Park. Ithen headed back to the centre of town to find somewhere to eat. I walked ...

... can really grasp the devastation, however we captured lots of pictures including two high-rise buildings near the famous Christchurch Cathedral that have quite a lean and will be demolished, and numerous older brick or block construction buildings that ...

... Christchurch where we had the rest of the day in the city, as our flight back to Wellington wasn't until Monday morning. In Christchurch we went to the Gondola, which is actually a little way out of town. Not as interesting as Queenstown Gondola but ...

... and certainly never expected to see it live; it dwarfed a container ship that was nearby.     Back in Christchurch, we got our information together to write the entries for yesterday and today, had supper at the hotel, and got packed ...

Our last day in New Zealand. We fly to Thailand tomorrow evening. We tried to register at the Sudima airport hotel where we had made a booking a couple of months before. They decided that they had no record of the booking and informed us that the ...

... , gefolgt von den vielen Nachbeben, insbesondere dem schweren Nachbeben im Oktober, haben so viele Schäden angerichtet, daß Christchurch für mindestens die nächsten zwei Jahre den Tourismus vergessen kann. Mit dem Wagen fahren wir durch die Stadt auf ...

... and Wayne started manipulating Kiwi Sam (Samantha is the voice on Wayne’s GPS) to enter our locations of interest in Christchurch and discovered that the location of my meeting this afternoon is only separated by one building from the office of the ...

... in the distance and only think about what these people had experienced a few weeks earlier.  You could still see the Grand Chancellor Hotel standing & we found out they'd poured tonnes of concrete into the basement to stablise it.  There is ...

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... went to next stop which is the gondola station The gondola sits atop of a small  mountain that separates Lyttelton from Christchurch. At the top looking south you see Lyttleton Harbor and the Banks Peninsula. The area is inside a large crater ...

... jet boating on the Waimakariri River, 4X4 wheelin across 10,000 acre sheep/cattle farm land and a return ride from Arthur's Pass to Christchurch. There were already three people in the van when I was picked up from the hotel. Terry, the driver and guide, ...

... to the hotel via the Cathedral itself. A proper, if slightly bijou cathedral this time - none of your bungalows from Nelson. I think Christchurch is my favourite city so far and South Island has been a revelation. I better start saving so I can come back ...