Walking Around the Queenstown Gardens in New Zealand: Even Pretty on a Rainy Day Not only does Queenstown, New Zealand already have a gorgeous harbor, 5-star restaurants, an extremely walkable waterfront and downtown area, and majestic mountains framing the massive lake the town bends around, but it also is home to one of New [...]
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The Little Cray Pot Restaurant Makes a Big Impact You have to go out of your way to get to the Cray Pot restaurant near Haast, New Zealand. It’s about 30 minutes off the main highway to Haast and once you reach there, you’re basically at a dead end and will just have to turn [...]
New Zealand’s Millions of Years Old Pancake Rocks In the town of Punakaiki on New Zealand’s South Island’s west coast lies the Pancake Rocks. Someone must have been hungry when deciding to name these rocks, because instead of calling them discs, or Frisbees, or simply stacked rocks, they got the moniker of Pancake Rocks due [...]
Pretty Picton, New Zealand: A seaside harbor town on the South Island Picton, New Zealand is located on the South Island on a northern point of the island. The harbor of Picton is a popular route for connecting the South and North islands of New Zealand – many tourists visit the South Island by [...]
Chasing Waterfalls on the Roaring Billy Falls Walk in New Zealand It’s hard to go very far in New Zealand without running into some type of walking trail. One of these that is located right off a main roadway is Roaring Billy Falls Walk in New Zealand’s South Island. It’s a good spot to get [...]
Tasting Beer…and Whale Puke…at Monkey Wizard Brewery “Monkey Wizard Brewery,” Tom said out loud as we passed a sign. “Two miles ahead. Want to go?” We had just left Abel Tasman and were arriving in the small town of Riwaka after an adventurous day kayaking in New Zealand and currently had barely drunk our flat [...]
I'm a travel marketer and travel writer. My husband, Tom, is getting his MBA and never stops studying. We have two cats. We have a mortgage. We have a passion for traveling. We have limited vacation time and funds.
Our friends and family wonder how we travel so much.
Here's how I balance it all and maximize travel time and getting the most out of a destination when time is short.
How Internet Works When Traveling in New Zealand
by Gina on April 15, 2013 · 0 comments
The Internet is weird in New Zealand. Ok, not really weird, but definitely annoying at times. Here’s why: They charge by MB, not by time, for Internet access in New Zealand. Now, on a cruise ship where it take 30 seconds for every page to load, this could be nice. But on a dry land [...]