May 11, 2011

Our fifth year anniversary trip-Tahiti, New Zealand and (No Japan)-Back to Auckland

After 3 nights in Hilton Lake Taupo, we headed back to Auckland downtown for our last night and visited another famous attraction along the route-Waitomo glowworm caves.Tickets were purchased from their website with 10% discount. Unfortunately, photo was not allowed in the cave. To be honestly, I was disappointed by the tour, so my suggestion was, if you had seen glowworm before, skip it. There were 2 other caves around same area, and a lot more active and fun, If I had enough time, I would choose the other 2 caves.

We stayed at All Season Auckland, Accor Group for our last night because I had some hotelclub reward dollar and only paid $20 out of pocket. never stayed at this brand before, but judging from the price, I did not expect too much. The location was excellent, right in the center of everything, but even I was prepared, I did not expect room to be that small AND with kitchen.

There was a interest Chinese cafe right next to the hotel” Red Guards Cafe”, waitress were dressed Chairman Mao’s Red Guards uniforms, but taste? Not very good.