Sky City Grand Auckland

... airline going on to Chile). We picked up the car at the airport and drove to our hotel - the Sky City Grand - right under the Sky City Tower. We wandered around a little before finding a Turkish restaurant near the ...

... 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 space.

We finally made it to the "Super City" as they like to refer to it in Auckland. The rest of the country think this is a bit of a joke as the truth is Auckland is actually quite small when compared to the cities across Europe, Asia and the Americas. This ...

... a few awards.  Needless to say we weren't disappointed. Not wanting to change our current traveling habits we then headed to Sky City casino, had a good win and hit the sack at about 2am.   Next morning we got up and finally cooked something ...

... hoping for a bit more of an adrenaline rush. We went to dinner at Dine by Peter Gordon at the Grand Sky City and enjoyed a degustation. I believe we had about 8 courses accompanied by specially selected wines that compliment the dish you are eating. ...