New Zealand - Location Summary
Trip Start
Dec 05, 2005
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Trip End
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Location Summary,
New Zealand
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Location: New Zealand South Island
Duration: 26 days
Sights 9
People 7.5
Food 6
Accommodation 8
Ease of Travel / Communication 9
Value for money 6
Weather 4
Safety 9
Adrenaline factor 9
Overall impression / Recommend 8.5
TOTAL (100) 76
Highlights;
1) Glaciers - Fox Heli-hike & Tasman boat trip
2) Queenstown - great, pretty & chilled town with loads of adrenaline activities to chose from
3) Scenery - amazing blue of Lake Tekapo, vivid colours of the Lupins, snow capped mountains
Lowlights;
1) Weather - miserable, height of summer but with no sun but no snow to compensate, meant numerous trips were cancelled!
2) Rip-off merchant mechanics
3) Not getting enough time to just chill out in Queenstown and the hotels attitude at New Year
LOCATION SUMMARY - North Island
Location: New Zealand North Island
Duration: 20 days
Sights 7
People 8
Food 6
Accommodation 7.5
Ease of Travel / Communication 9
Value for money 6.5
Weather 6
Safety 9
Adrenaline factor 6
Overall impression / Recommend 8
TOTAL (100) 73
Highlights;
1) Rotorua - loads to see and do; amazing geothermal phenomenon
2) White Island
3) Selling the car on the first day of sale for $700 more than we paid for it!!!
Lowlights;
1) Wellington - not as attractive or as much to do as the hype suggests
2) Verdi being too short to do Zorb
3) Clothes ruined by faulty washing machines at Formule 1 in Auckland
