Four Canoes Hotel273 Fenton St, Rotorua, New Zealand 3010 1.4 miles Pacific Motor Inn Mount Maunganui261 Maunganui Road, Bay of Plenty, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand 3116 33.8 miles Lake Rotorua ...

This week, the cafe at the Rotorua Thermal Holiday Park on Old Taupo Rd, was resurrected as The Chirpy Cafe. Next-door neighbours Waiariki Institute of Technology bought the holiday park in 2012 ...

The most colorful park, Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, was a few miles down the road. (Entry cost about $24.) Manganese, iron, sulfur and salts have painted the place in yellows and reds, purples ...