Taupo’s newest motor lodge and conference centre is ideally located just a few minutes walk to lake, shops and restaurants. 19 luxury studio and 1 bedroom units are professionally decorated and provide 5 star accommodation with every modern amenity. 10 large studio sleep 1-2 and 9 one bedroom units sleep 1-6. All units are non-smoking, air-conditioned and have under floor heating. Each unit has a fully equipped kitchen with microwave/grill The luxurious tiled bathrooms feature 6 jet spa baths, separate showers, hair-dryers, heated ladder towel rails and heated mirrors. 2 access units have walk in showers. For the modern traveller there is a free broadband internet workstation in each unit, SKY digital TV and a DVD player. For the guest with out a laptop a free email cafe is provided. Ground floor units open onto private courtyards, some with their own barbecue, and upstairs studios have spa windows to enable guests to watch TV or a DVD while enjoying a hot spa bath.

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I had an impressive journey with Finn boot-throwers to New Zealand at the end of March 2010. We flew to Wellington and our German friends a document film maker Eckehard Dux and Anita Otto the president of German Bootthrowing Association joined our group there. We stayed over a night in Wellington before leaving to Taihape by the Overlander train.

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