Rydges Queenstown

... hahaha So for the rest of the day, she had a limp and was walking like the elephant man!!!  Friday, our last night in Queenstown, we was taking around town by Lachie (owner of the Quad Shop) and did a serious bar crawl, end result was James and ...

Loved Queenstown which is a beautiful little town right on Lake Wakatipu. This is an adventure town with all kinds of water sports. para sailing, white water rafting, hang gliding & bungee jumping in the summer. (skiing in the winter) I went on a ...

... included as well). Down to town and out on the TS Earnslaw.  Very cold out on front deck but lovely view.  Queenstown spectacular.  Very hot inside as it's open to the engine room.  Watch stokers shovelling coal into the furnace.  ...

... the trip but the cup of hot soup when we stopped off on the way back was lovely! We are staying at a really nice hotel in Queenstown called "the Rydges" is only a 2 min walk into town as has a TV (so we can watch neightbours! By the way karl and Izzie ...

... back into town, and later another walk to Lake Matheson. A nice lazy Christmas after a few days cooped up on the bus. Max, Grom, and the bus did the drive and could enjoy a Christmas evening in the Rydges Hotel's hot tub which was just outside Max's ...

... little cartoon badges, one of sheep shagging and one of kiwi's shagging. Lucky us! We will wear them with pride. We arrived at Rydges hotel in Queenstown and might I add the biggest dive of a room that we have had so far even though it is a nice big hotel ...

... .  I will let the photos share the story, however here is a quick snapshot/highlights: Tuesday Drove from Christchurch to Queenstown Stopped for a café break Lunch and fed birds at the mountain resort place Saw sheep and dog show Stopped at a fruit ...

... time without recourse to any jewelery purchases. We will include a photo which captures our joint passions.hills and Hills From Queenstown we flew to Milford Sound, avoiding the alternative, a return trip of 5 hours on winding alpine passes. The ...

... our front door and with the mountains and pine trees as a backdrop, it's pretty special. The winter festival in Queenstown started yesterday after being delayed from Friday last week after heavy snow, to our gain really. Stood drinking mulled ...

A few days spent boarding and running around queenstown. we were lucky enough to hit queenstown with snow... and a few hundred gay skiiers and boarders. My fav things to do in Q'town are run up Ben Lomond Track, hire a bike ride the trails, visit the ...

... Christchurch. We arrived at Christchurch midafternoon and picked up our racy red hire lancer and started the drive south to Queenstown. We curved through the mountains seeing our first glimpses of snow and checked into a spacious room at the Rydges ...

Queenstowni sõit oli pikk ja väga väsitav: kuna sihtkohta saamiseks tuli ületada mägi, tähendas see seda, et pidime kõigepealt sõitma mäetippu ja siis sealt alla tagasi. Teadupoolest on mäeteed tavaliselt sinka-vonkalised, nii et jah, süda ...

... was truly the most incredible place I've ever seen. We stayed as long as we dared, and then made the long drive back to Queenstown.  It was still beautiful, but raining pretty steadily, and it was a challenging drive.  We are glad to be in our ...

... food restaurant, for lunch. Lake Taupo is the largest lake in NZ. There are lots of things to do in Taupo. It feels like the Queenstown of North Island. It’s a pity that I couldn’t find a way to schedule for a day’s stop at Taupo. We ...

... that waffling I may as well tell you what I've been up to. After meeting up with Claire and Vicky we travelled down to Queenstown to start our adventure and the drive down was far from boring every bend in the road managed to take our breadths away(I ...

... !   We got a small taste of the NZ landscape today, but tomorrow will be much better as we travel for 8 hours to Queenstown!   This trip and journey will be ending in 4 days and it has flown by...I have made some great new friends and realized ...

... . Forget the Burren it would be some place to bring the senior Goegraphy students for the geology field trip.    We left Queenstown yesterday with the intention of going to the west coast and stopping at Haast which was about a 3 and a half hour ...

... to all those nameless Kiwis that we met as we tried to put our lives back together , the pharmacists in Iilam, and Queenstown who filled Liam's prescription, the Doctor who re wrote the prescription that our own pharmacist Cormac Harte had faxed to us, ...

... to before. We were glad to get out of the crappy Rydges hotel room quickly this morning and filled up with petrol before heading to Queenstown airport to lose the hire car and jump on a plane. We had done about 2,600 kms on the south island, add that to ...