Oaks Auckland

Around the world in 80 plus days

... and washed the remaining llama droppings off the bottom for us.   Decontaminated, we got a cab into Auckland to our digs for the next 3 days, the Oaks Smartstay Apartments on Hobson Street in the city centre. It was nice to have a 2 bed apartment ...

June 26: It's winter time in New Zealand, actually Auckland isn't as cold as we thought. The weather reminded us Oregon in the winter. Downtown and waterfront were very quite on the weekend morning, hardly any people roaming the streets. Victoria ...

... . We sat in, lazed about till about 2pm, went for some food in an irish pub and then wandered around town somewhat aimlessly. Auckland seems a little bland. I would write more about this place but I have nothing else to say. We got back to the apartment, ...

... the beach the last few times, so it passed the checks and off on the shuttle into Auckland we went. We stayed at the Auckland City Oaks Hotel in the centre – a nice room with two bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, washing machine and bathroom. Breakfast was ...

... CBS, the streets have only 2 lanes. We made quite a few detours around town before finally getting to our apartment (Auckland City Oaks Serviced Apartments). There’s 2 bedrooms with a fully equipped kitchen (yes, oven, pots, pans, induction cooker, ...

... to door service we hopped straight aboard. Love the Kiwis. A nice fella, we chatted a bit and he dropped us off at the City Oaks Serviced Apartments. The apartments cost us $120 a night (60 GBP) and were bought as a bit of a chill before we hit the road ...

... at 5:20am April 29th. Whizzed through customs, hopped on the bus (I'm learning to love public transportation) for central city Auckland. There I stayed with a fabulously generous and lovely lady, Amanda. I "found" Amanda on this cool website called airbnb ...

... and had dinner at a nearby restuarant that night. The next day we did a harbour cruise in the morning which was lovely.  Auckland is such a lovely city and the suburbs are really scenic.  We got dropped off at a volcanic island for 10 mins and ...

... of wine.  I have a strange feeling that we'll be drinking a LOT of wine from here on out.   First impressions though, Auckland is a very pretty city.  Actually, it weirds me out, but it reminds me a lot of San Diego.  The one ...

So we left boiling hot Australia to arrive in rainy Auckland but we immediately felt at home.  I have to say we were not sorry to leave Australia, and Jon was particularly fazed by the stringent Australian laws (and for that reason alone we would ...

... week I will be in Bangkok and meeting up with my tour group that I will be spending Christmas with.   But back to Auckland.  I really have just hung out.  My days were about strolling through the city, had my eyebrows threaded (don't ask, ...

... to us. To get back on topic, the room. We are situated in G11 a two bedroom apartment for 4 days, in downtown Auckland. We have a kitchen, a bathroom, two bedrooms, and an open area we are calling the living room.  The kitchen is comprised of a ...

... center we bought our tour tickets. They cost us 30$ each but we would be able to visit 14 locations for an hour each around aukland. Looking at the pamflet we found we'd already been to half of the 14 locations. Wich ment we got more time to spend at ...

... a shower. The water was scalding hot and burned down my body. It was nice because we'd spent the whole day walking around Auckland so my whole body was sore. Also, yesterday night was the first time I got to wear my hello kitty Pyjamas. Saw vegimite ...