Wellington Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Greetings all. Hope you are all well.

To Lingfield running club members - congrats to Rob, Snowy 'et al' for a great sheep rescue! Thanks also to my sisters who continue to make us smile whilst we're away -Steph - for her kiwi/duck confusion & Natasha for being so proud when 2 yr old Rosa asks for mayonnaise (new word) & then fix...

Up at 5-45am, yes - it´s a travelling day and down in reception, checked-out and in the taxi at 0630. The modern, new station was downtown and we checked our luggage in and were away on the `Overlander´ train at 0725. This was a 450 mile, twelve hour journey down the North Island to Wellington, New Zealand´s capital. There was a problem with the...

As we continue to settle into lives that asymptotically approach quotidian dullness, posting here becomes ever more sparse. Sorry 'bout that; it's just the way of things. There will be future excursions worth noting, and they will be noted here. But there's also another factor at play: I've abandoned by blog monogamy and am now contributing at a...

On Saturday we went to the main racing event of the year for Wellington, the Wellington Cup Carnival. This is similar to Ascot, where most people dress up, and I saw plenty of hats. We caught the train and got a deal on the tickets that included entry to the races as well. We actually caught the 'express' train to Trentham (where the race ground...

We've been in Wellington about a month now and thought we might share our knowledge on the strategy board gaming scene in the Wellingotn area. Aron and I are both really enjoy playing strategy board games and find ourselves playing a couple of times if given the chance. We played on Monday & Weds & sometimes on the weekends in the US. We...

We leave the sunny set of Akaroa and head off to a little place called the Staging Post which is near a place called Kaikoura, we have sticked ourselves up with a 3 day walk that will end up to be some of the best views i have seen so far. We get to the Staging post a 9 o clock at night to be sent straight to the dorm to get some well deserved s...

Yesterday we made 40 phone calls to people advertising on 'trademe' for flatmates... guess how many viewings we got from that... one!.................. one viewing on Monday night for a place in Oriental Bay, which is definately one of the places at the top of my list, although it appears to be top of most peoples list as the properties go so qu...

So we finally moved out of the hostel - myself, Milly, Carl, Anna, Robin, Briony and Jeremy - into a student apartment and had a bit of ahoude-warming the week after we moved in. It's more or less the whole gang that moved in so we left the hostel in a desolate state.

Not long ago, the wind blew me across the Tasman Sea to windswept, wonderful Wellington. Capital of the Land of the Long White Cloud, home of the All Blacks (they're even more rugby crazy here than in Oz) and of the Kiwi. And boy, is it windy here, with the strong southerlies blowing their way over the green hills and through the houses perched ...

Not the happiest moment of the trip for me when the alarm went off at 6.45am, I could have done with quite a few more hours in bed, but sadly we were being picked up by the bus at 8.00am. I reluctantly headed towards the shower and after a hot blast from that I felt slightly more human. I had breakfast and then headed back to the room for some f...