Set a little way out of Wanaka, on the road to Cardrona, as the name suggests, this is a cafe and food shop that comes highly recommended. Breakfast (served till 11.30am), lunch and morning/afternoon tea are on offer here with many of the food ingredients sourced locally. Seating is both inside and…
This is a chain restaurant with a branch in Wellington, Christchurch Hamilton and 4 branches in Auckland. The branches in Wellington, Hamilton and Britomart have all been recommended and they offer the same menu and set up and were equally good. The other branches should be too but if you’ve been to…
This is a chain restaurant with 4 branches in Auckland and another in each of Wellington, Hamilton and Christchurch. The one in Britomart and others around the country have been recommended and they offer the same menu and set up, so the other branches should be good too. Let me know…
Kids love this funicular railway which travels between the main shopping street, Lambton Quay, up through the Botanic Garden to Kelburn and back again (if you want). The red carriages are an iconic Wellington sight. The two 100m tunnels now have changing light displays from 9am to make this attraction more…
Formerly known as The Museum of City and Sea, this place had the first of several revamps in 2015 and now boasts a whole extra floor (called The Attic), continuing the story of the evolution of Wellington. Exhibits include a 3D map of Wellington and a ‘time machine’ showing the history of…
This pool was refurbished in 2012 and now boasts a 25mx25m main pool, teaching pool, leisure pool (heated to 32 degrees), and a toddlers pool (heated to 33 degrees). There’s also a kids’ water playground with slides, water jets and buckets, rapid river and bubble pit. There’s also a 50m outdoor pool…
The view from the top of Mount Iron is definitely worth dragging the kids up for! When you’re at the top, on a clear day, you can see for miles with the Southern Alps in one direction, The Pisa Range in another direction and all of Wanaka spread out down below…
Set halfway between Queenstown and Wanaka, The Cardrona Hotel gets recommended by lots of families. Whether you’re looking for somewhere warm and cosy to eat and drink in the winter (inside and outside fire places) or a place for the kids to runaround outside in the warmer months (great, big…
There are 50,000 toys on display at this museum and a lot of vintage vehicles but new toys also feature in the onsite toy shop which claims to be ‘the best toy shop in New Zealand’! So whether you show your kids the toys that you used to play with…
A walk along the river in Arrowtown brings you to a partially restored small settlement of huts that were occupied by Chinese Miners who were brought over to NZ during the gold rush. For more information on what life in the Chinese settlements might have been like, see the website link. The…
