Rydges Auckland

... check emails. We headed over to Sky City to arrange a Spa afternoon for Tuesday and then walked the 4 blocks down to the Auckland Harbour.  Headed up Queen Street, which is an eclectic mix of high-end designer stores and souvenir shops. Like London, ...

... we separated.  Nikki was staying with Gail and her family for the night and Haydn, Celise and Myself were heading into Auckland city to stay at Rydges for the night. We arrived at Rydges and checked into our room.  We were only a block away ...

... 2hrs and then headed back to the shop.  We dumped the boards and hit the road once more, headed to our final NZ destination, Auckland. We met up with a girl we'd met in Fiji for a couple of drinks and then stayed out of town at a motor park; our ...

Arrived in Auckland late and took the bus to the hotel. The bus wasn't bad. Lots of backpackers and other travellers en route to the next part of the journeys as well. Stayed at the Rydges, a block away from Sky Tower. Nice place, close to ...

... on the way in.  Transfer to hotel was easy (although at one point I thought the bus would be blown over).  The Rydges Hotel is a little corporate but with nice spacious rooms but alas no Wi-Fi.  I went to sleep to the sound of pounding ...

... en soejlegang haevede oplevelsen. Men det var en fint sted for boern med mange gode aktiviteter. Nytaarsaftensdag var vi paa Auckland Museum for at blive klogere paa maourierne. De har en keampeflot udstilling, der fortaeller deres historie og desuden ...

... with his fusion cooking and owner of Providores in London (a popular haunt for me and some of the readers!) has a flagship restaurant in Auckland called “Dine” – it had to be done.  So I booked Mr and Mr Hadwin in for an early ...

... still quite a tiring journey (so hats off to John for driving us what felt like halfway across the country!) Arrived in Auckland at about 5-ish and checked into our hotel after saying our farewells to John and Evelyn. Very nice recently refurbished ...

Flew from Sydney to Auckland. The really nice thing about Auckland is that is a large city but you are just a ferry ride away from amazing countryside.  Waiheke Bay (40 minute ferry ride) is beautiful and filled with picturesque wineries. Also ...

... the different stores. Good to know Hugo Boss is still expensive everywhere. Then cutting across Khyber Pass road we arrived at Auckland Domain. This was another beautiful park. We just relaxed on the lawn in the shade for quite a while watching people ...

... ferry to Devonport - about 20 minutes across the water.   We climbed Mount Victoria and had wonderful 360 degree views of Auckland and surrounding islands.   This was an extinct volcano, all covered in grass now, of course.   ...

... Esquires cafe free internet, mooched around town a bit more and then had a look at the photography exhibition near the Auckland town hall building. Impressive photos of land from the sky including glaciers, deserts and everything in between. There was ...

... the Pirates of the Caribbean. We arrived in Auckland around 3:30 PM and were definitely happy to see that the accomodations were upgraded from Rotorua. Auckland is a wonderful Metropolitan city with lots to explore. This is how we are spending our ...

... to experience New Zealand and to support the local economy, and not to spread McImperialism.   We ended up going to Sky City.  The Auckland tall tower has a casino called Sky City in the base of it.  As the casino is all night, of course the food is ...

... . Dan ben je er eindelijk, is het mooi weer en maandagmorgen. Bijna niet geslapen en nog een uurtje rijden naar het centrum van Auckland. Links rijden en dus rechts sturen gaat beter dan je denkt. Waarschijnlijk te moe om er moeilijk over te ...

... causing huge drama, lots of unnecessary stress and a pile of extra money. But moving on….so we are now all in Auckland. We’re over at Rydges in the city and the Gouwsies are staying at a hotel close to the airport. We are meeting up at noon at ...

... ($3400), equivalent to one year's salary for the average urban Chinese. FLIGHTS TO NEW ZEALAND Air New Zealand flies to Auckland from Shanghai three times every week on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday. Economy fares start from 8950 rmb. FLIGHTS TO ...

... (NZ version of tater tots). So far we have been able to split almost all our meals saving us some money for later. Auckland has lots of mixed Asian food arcades which serve up tons of relatively healthy/tasty food for really cheap. A great place for ...