Rendezvous Auckland

... hotel, it was miles and then had to walk all uphill to the hotel with my 4 bags !!! Light traveller hehe !! Staying at the Rendezvous, budget travelling and Vicky books us into a 4* hotel.  The hotel was very central but wasn’t as nice as some ...

... de l'environnement dans lequel ils vivent. Il doit y avoir un peu plus de 4 millions d'habitants en Nouvelle Zélande, dont 1,3 vivent a Auckland. Comme le check-in de l'hôtel est a 3 heures de l'après-midi, pour patienter, je décide de prendre le ...

... was in a bad state having jumped from a boat onto a deck in an emergency 'tie the boat up' scenario. So having arrived in Auckland we decided to go to the hospital to have it checked out again. In retrospect it was probably a mistake for Nini to ...

5:15 AM - We arrive in Auckland after a restless 12-hr flight. We got to talk to Wesley sitting next to us, who was born Canadian and now immigrated to Australia, and joined the army- so some of our conversations got awkward when he would elude to being ...

... message came buzzing in - Anne and Paul had just jetted in from Blighty and were keen to come out and play. We organised a rendezvous outside Borders and dashed across town to meet our good ol'chums - woohoooh!! What a turn up for the books (or the ...

Free time this afternoon - we went to the Chinese Lantern Festival.  I bet it is really pretty at night with the lanterns lit.  Hopefully we will return after the dinner cruise. Fireworks tonight too. Had a thrilling 50' sailboat ride on ...

... hour.  Our flight on Air New Zealand was comfortable and passed quickly.  We arrived in Auckland on a golden evening and finally touched down at the Rendezvous Hotel  at about 7.30pm.  The city streets were busy with young people out ...

... make our first entry. After a long night of flying we arrived in Fiji on the 15th of October at about 6 am. We stayed at Rendezvous Surf & Dive,located about an hour outside of Nadi at the Uciwai landing. On our Fiji trip we did a whole lot of ...

... tricky to drive and manoeuvre, especially around cities.  We had twenty-three days in which to get Bertha back to Auckland.  We gave ourselves sixteen days to tour the South Island and managed to get around pretty much the entire island during ...

... in our final destination - NZ. We're staying in luxury whilst we're here before hitting the comforts of the camper van - Rendezvous & the Hilton (get us!!) - all courtesy of NatWest points and Last Minute.com. Still it's nice to have a bathroom in ...

... yachts! There are probably more yachts than humans in NZ. And sheeps of course. We watched the Maori cultural dance show at Auckland Museum. Did the harbour cruise that goes to Rangitoto Island and also took a ferry to Davenport. The city landmark that ...

After a flight that lasted almost 13 hours (12h55min), we arrived in Auckland, New Zealand.  They had a great information place at the airport that helped us get our bearings.  The air was moist and warm when we stepped outside at about ...

... was through the Auckland Domain and then along Mountain Road where there were some beautiful examples of the more affluent homes in Auckland.  After a steep scramble at the end of the climb we arrived at the crater and a fantastic view of Auckland ...

... unsuccessful in getting us to part with any scraps before we moved onto  Wellsford before turning south and back towards to Auckland.  Once again on the i-site man's recommendation we turned off the main drag to drive into Muriwai Beach which ...

... yeast, so a solid form of beer we concluded, and looked and tasted like something from the hardware store, no thanks. Then we booked Auckland Adventures to pick us up from our hotel at 10 AM, to go Duneboarding on the west coast, on the black sand Dunes. ...

After searching online for things to do, We have decided that the Sky Tower in Auckland is something we must do.  That looks like an adrenaline rush like no other.  It's a long way down, and a short time to get there!  ...

We leave San Francisco International at 10pm on Friday, March 21st.  We fly all day Saturday, cross the international date line and lose a whole day.  We land Easter Sunday in Sydney Australia for a 3 hour layover, then on to ...

... falling asleep, so then we went to beddy-bye. Today, we go to Rotorua. It's about a 3 hour drive from Auckland and it's described as a geothermal wonderland. The whole town smells like sulfur apparently and there are beautiful waterfalls and geysers ...

We arrived!  22 hours and then some.  But we are rested and walking around Auckland. We found an excellent resturant, Tony's "Lord Nelson's"  Steakhouse where we ate the best ...