Mercure Hotel Auckland

... from Mark and his interest in all things Scottish and Irish. After all this Mark gave us a lift back to the hotel, being able to see Auckland from another angle all lit up was very impressive. After sleeping in and being chased by the hotel staff to ...

... 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 ...

... , 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... with sauerkraut with curry sauce. Sounds like a strange combination, but it was great. After way too many beers we made our way back to the hotel. We leave Auckland tomorrow and head down to Rotura. Hopefully, I can get pictures posted to the blog there. ...

... guess we both have an excuse for not being ready! So, we did the same thing as we always do which is to head off to the Mercure Hotel at Sydney Airport the night before. We did manage to get there earlier than in the past so I guess we had improved on ...

... op van het treinstation en over een MacDonalds burger legde ik haar mijn plan voor om maar gewoon weer in te checken in het Mercure Hotel, waar ik de vorige keer ook gezeten had. Na mijn gewoonlijke wik-en-weeg, flashte ik mijn creditcard en had ik een ...

... to land it just looked gorgeous and I couldn't wait to see more of it. Once we had gotten off the bus and found out the first Mercure hotel was ours we had a couple of hours to kill before check in.  We took this opportunity to try and get some warm ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... hotel as soon as it was over. The next day, we headed to the waterfront for a ferry cruise of the harbor/bay around Auckland. It was a relaxing 90 minute journey. That evening, we headed down to the waterfront for dinner in a place called, ironically, ...

... . We managed a couple of dishes, but after some cold slimy seaweed I lost my appetite. So we finished up and left. Auckland is full of oriental restaurants, in the city centre the majority being Sushi bars or Thai. There is a large Oriental population ...

... ;islands, we had a buffet dinner in the hotel, and the food was very nice. After the bay of islands, we headed back to Auckland to stay the night, and have some dinner in the hotel. Before heading on to Rotorua, we had a tour of the city, including ...

... is no danger of falling and the influx of people falling from the Sky Jump passed the window has to make it more adrenaline filled than any other tower. We're off on our travels tomorrow, so it's goodbye to Auckland, hello to Rotorua. Watch this ...

... pic's of our route on the north island and the new ones of the south island which has come to an end! From Auckland to, Waiheke Island, Waireka, Orewa, Whangarei, Matapouri, Tutukaka, Russell, Bay of Islands, Paihia, Whatuwhiwhi, Cape Reinga, Kaitaia, ...

... 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 ...