Mercure Auckland

... . About 15% of the NZ population is Maori. The Maroi's came from South East Asia and are the origianal settlers of New Zealand. The Auckland Museum sits on one of the 48 volcanoes in Auckland. We walked to the top of the volcano and down into the crater. ...

... the biggest tourist attractions in the area. This includes places such as Parnell village (one of the oldest suburbs), Mt Eden (Auckland's highest point), the Civic Theatre, the Americas Cup Viaduct harbour and Sky Tower. We saw all this, but decided to ...

... walk from the hotel, where we had a good view of the Sky Tower (the tallest building/structure in the southern hemisphere) and the Auckland Harbour Bridge! We then headed up to the Sky Tower to go up and see the city from there! We bought our tickets and ...

... , et je suis vite parti faire un petit tour dans le centre ville histoire de dire que j’ai quand même vu Auckland. Ça ressemble fort à Sydney, un centre ville en gratte ciel, avec le même type de gens, cool, pas stressés, souriants,… Y ...

Nothing special in Auckland but the bus trip from Rotorua to Auckland was special. Must see the Glow worms cawe at Waitomo. It's ...

Auckland was really nice. It is similar for Perth except for the random cows walking around in the middle of the city (Mt ...

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Arrived in Auckland early in the morning. Got to the hotel not expecting to have a room yet, but they did! And it was a smoking room (nice for Gill)! Wandered down to the quayside, had food and glass of sparkling wine. More wandering found Albert Park ...

Phoned our folks for the first time since leaving England, this morning. Was awesome to talk to them, have been feeling a bit home sick, especially when stressed in Peru! Rob has just missed pies and Guinness! Caught the bus to the museum, there ...

... the back of eleven and our tummies were starting to rumble.  There are tons of wee cafes and restaurants in the centre of Auckland and we picked one which claimed to serve the "best fish and chips in town".  Andy obliged and ordered this whereas ...

... to Melbourne tomorrow. Saw some city sights, including the Sky Tower which is very cool I highly suggest going to the top. Auckland is a really beautiful city. Tonight the 'leftovers' from the tour are all heading out to dinner and maybe some drinks. I ...

... on board we sat and sat on the tarmac while they had to find all the bags! A good tailwind though saw us arriving in Auckland with about 2 hours layover instead of the 3. Not a problem. All part of the experience. Actually, can't complain at all about ...

... dat er zowel op vrijdag als op zondag een verbod is op het schenken van alcohol in bars en cafe's en eenmaal in Auckland bleek de hele binnenstad dan ook compleet uitgestorven te zijn. Bijna alles was gesloten, op de Starbucks en wat 24/7 supermarktjes ...

... of sail boats. Today is Monday, so we only saw a handful on the water. One of the interesting things that I notice in Auckland that I haven't seen anywhere else, is the unique way they cross the street. There is no turn on red, so instead of needing to ...

... exactly what was being described on the text board.  It was a really unusual and effective way of highlighting the highlights of Auckland, and made for a couple of good photos as well :o) After we'd circled the deck a couple of times we headed down ...

We landed in the cool of the evening having lost two hours after leaving Brisbane. Kiaora Auckland! We dropped our bags off at the hotel which was situated Downtown on Queen St. We then headed for the Harbour which was very lively especially around the ...

... thinking about it all day as we toured around.  As we stopped at pretty and interesting places between Rotorua and Auckland, I was thinking that maybe he is up there somewhere looking down and enjoying the same natural beauty that I am seeing, ...

... .  We got chatting to one of the barmaids, a Welshie, who was really friendly.  She was travelling and ended up in Auckland and then couldn't afford to go anywhere else so is working at the pub.  Her last flight home on her RTW ticket was ...

... route took me through familiar territory from earlier walks, to start with, but after the University I got into parkland at the Auckland Domain (missing the museum again, mysteriously) and suburbs I hadn't seen. Eventually I arrived at the highest point ...