We all have our favourite bushwalk, mountain hike, or beach, but New Zealand’s wetlands haven’t been so easy to visit.Things are changing though, and the spotlight is being turned on our squishy sites, with an increasing number of boardwalks, bird…
The man behind the counter at QT Queenstown sums it up pretty perfectly when I tell him that, at 35 years old, it’s my first visit to the region. I can’t print his colourful response here, but it was a…
Locals have been able to enjoy relative calm as the ferry link to Waiheke has been running on a reduced timetable from Auckland. However, there is one bunch of visitors who have not been keeping their distance: a pod of…
Cunard Line became the first Carnival Corp. brand to extend its pause into 2021.Citing the U.K. Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s current guidance against cruising as well as “the complexity of operating world voyages,” the U.K.-based line extended its pause from…
It’s not easy being green, especially in the food biz. New Zealand sends more than 150,000 tonnes of food to the bin every year, and 1.7 billion plastic containers – including all those single-use drink bottles and takeaway boxes.But across…
An all-star guide to New Zealand’s grand green hotels.No job title strikes fear into hospitality workers like: “hotel inspector”.Being told that you’re “due an inspection” used to be a phrase delivered like the premise of a murder mystery novel. Hotel…
Take a hike and save in MilfordSecure your bookings for Fiordland National Park’s Milford, Routeburn and Kepler Tracks. Summer’s reopening is scheduled for December 2. Take day walks or book walks which take you into the wilderness for several days…
Forced to close early in response to Auckland’s latest coronavirus response, the Auckland Art Gallery’s Enchanted Worlds: Hokusai, Hiroshige and the Art of Edo Japan exhibition has opened once more – this time to audiences around the world in both…
Boon After Dark is a light sculpture exhibition, which launched this week, set in the central city’s Garden Place, to light up the winter nights. Check out the interactive Shrooms – giant immersive mushrooms created by design studio Amigo &…
New Zealand might be known for its extreme sports – bungy-jumping anyone? – but you don’t have to go hard-core to experience an adrenaline rush in Aotearoa. If plunging from a platform or falling from a plane is a bit…
