Today is our last full day in New Zealand. Sad.
We started our day finding the statue of Riff Raff ( Rock horror Picture Show) outside the city museum. We also enjoyed a more extensive exploration of the city centre. Yesterday’s thoughts might have been hasty, we found some truely interesting and beautiful parts of the city part near our hotel.
We would recommend the hotel, staff were great and facilities clean and well maintained. A great spot for general shopping at Centre Place as well as a couple of well stocked and well priced souvenir shops.
Our major focus after checking out of the Hamilton Novotel was to visit the city prize winning botanical gardens. The gardens are large and impressive. We saw a fraction of the gardens today but what we saw well worth the visit. Unfortunately limited time and sore feet meant that we had to leave without seeing all the different garden displays.
Our trip to Auckland was slow due to road works. Often the speed dropped and signs indicated work but no work could be seen. Perhaps traffic ‘witches hat placement 101 course’ for budding road workers is what we experienced as no sign of digging, machinery or people or any obvious sign of road works. Except long lines of witches hats. The other observation during our time in New Zealand is almost everyone speeds. We saw very limited police presence on the roads, so perhaps that is why people tend to speed? I guess we will never know.
Once at the airport, we checked in at our hotel and did a reconnaissance of where to go tomorrow in the airport. We are staying at Auckland Novotel Airport tonight to make the final trip home as easy as possible literally cross the road to the international checkin counters. Also, today we learnt that we’ve been upgraded to business class for the flight home. We were lucky, we put in an option to use points to upgrade and it was accepted.. Another pleasant but busy day!
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