(photograph © Kiwidutch)
The rain has really set in by the time we arrive in Rotorua and we set about finding a place to stay.
The first few places we try either are full up or have no adjoining or family rooms available, and one has only a really tiny studio (that’s also not by any means cheap) that sleeps two-three but they would see what they could do to try and squeeze in an extra bed, and the man there paints a very pessimistic picture as he tries to convince Himself that it will probably be impossible to find anything else at this (late afternoon) hour.
Himself smells the arm twist ploy and replies we will look further thanks and get back to them if we don’t find anything suitable.
Two places later we find a Family room in the Distinction (Rotorua) Hotel for far less cost than what the studio guy was asking, and with two double beds so less cramped too.
The bonus is that there are several restaurants within the hotel so we don’t have to go far for a meal and the place has it’s own pool and jacuzzi…
…upon finding this later information, our tired kids are suddenly in looooove with the place.
The room is large enough for two double beds and there’s plenty of space for the bags, a fridge. mini-bar etc. The first item on the agenda for the kids is to beg a swim before dinner, and that wish granted, throw the suitcases open and rummage for swimming costumes, get changed and disappear off to the outside jacuzzi pool with Himself in tow, whilst I put my foot up and have a little rest.
Whilst they were busy dragging suitcases from the van to the room, I took photos of the room knowing it wasn’t going to be in this pristine state for long…
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
View out of the window…
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(apologies for the lens cap or thumb Oops in the next photo…) … the fridge and tea making things are inside the tall white cupboard…
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
No denying Family Kiwidutch are EXPERT travellers! Can’t get anything by you! Have you ever stopped to count just how many different hotels/rooms you’ve photographed?
Comment by milkayphoto — April 19, 2012 @ 12:10 pm |
Ooh I hate to think how many…but at least doing a “review” of them reminds of of the places we want to go back to one day(or not!).
We Mostly stay in more budget style accommodation and sometimes the places are great, sometimes we might think that the place next door might have been a better option.
In my pre-blogging days I’ve been in some doozies that included one in the Solomon Islands with a floor so sloping you had to work hard to stay upright walking across the room, a haunted youth hostel in Ireland, a hotel Singaporein the 1980′s that I renamed the “cockroach hotel” , a french Gite with a mega tiny french double bed (huge end-boards) that BOTH Himself and I were too tall for and ended up sleeping on the floor, the Easter in Portugal where there was no heating existing in the place and it was freezing, literally icy… (tile floors +zero insulation) to count just a few… we’ve seen many amazing places over the course of our travels, though some left us speechless for all the wrong reasons LOL.
We like to live simply at home and save hard to travel.. works for us!
Comment by kiwidutch — April 19, 2012 @ 4:53 pm |