Lake Taupo Motor Inn

... Suzuki Swift struggled up the hills but we made to Taupo with little left in the tank.  We found our motel, the Lake Taupo Motor Inn, a really nice place where we will stay for three nights. Off to explore Taupo with a rece at the Wairakei Golf club ...

After a fairly easy drive inland we reached Taupo and our studio spa at Ascot Motor Inn – a lovely apartment which overlooks Lake Taupo with the three volcanos in the distance – Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu (level 1 active at the ...

... ; When we arrived in Taupo we checked into the hotel. We had a beautiful two bedroom unit with living room, kitchen and two bathrooms, overlooking Lake Taupo. We ordered Thai take out for dinner and lingered over a bottle of wine, then to ...

... size of Singapore to give you a rough idea).  The rest of the day was spent sunbathing and swimming on the shores of Lake Taupo, just lazing the hours away until tea where we again sat, overlooking Lake Taupo and watching the sun set.  ...

... low cloud for the next couple of days although it is fine now. We abandon that idea and go to Taupo, a lively town on New Zealand's largest lake offering all sorts of action possibilities such as tandem parachute jumping (no chance - Janice won't even go ...

... on to our stop in Rotorua (still with that sulphurous smell in the air) we checked in to Palm Court Motor Inn which was recommended to us by Murray in Taupo – and booked when we checked out this morning.   When we saw the room we were ...

... it hovered around there as we headed along the Desert road. The scenery was amazing along the Desert road where the highway leaves Lake Taupo and climbs to 1000 metres (well the car showed 1000 m elevation) as you skirt the volcanos on the plateau - ...

OK, been gone a few days, so I will fill you in on our road trip.  We headed North up towards Lake Taupo, stopping at Waiouru for a leg stretch, then back in the car along the Desert Road to Lake Taupo, stopping in the town for a look around and ...

... time yelling at him to stay in the left lane and not veer into the shoulder.  On the way, we stopped by at Lake Taupo.  After Rotorua, this is the spot for adventure activities, but since we planned on doing everything with Paul and Shannon, we ...

... UK 15 years afterwards. After learning about the earth's violent past we drove the hour down the road to Taupo itself, and spent the night at a really good motor inn on the lake-side, along with kitchen, pool, spa, sauna and sky TV. All for cheaper ...

... of the park, they didnīt so with slightly heavy hearts, could have been the food from the night before, we drove North to Lake Taupo, pausing only to look back across the ranges to see the cloud clear across the three peaks. I did have some greta ...

... which was really nice because we got to relax an not worry about where we were going to sleep every night. We then ended up in Lake Taupo at a lady’s house who offered for us to stay at her place after picking us up hitch hiking and hearing we had ...

... heading homewards. We stopped in Taupo for what turned out to be an enormous breakfast and then on to Rotorua and the Geneva Motor Inn. Rotorua is built on top of a volcanic area where the earths crust is a little thinner resulting in numerous hot ...