A building sight

We are now 13 hours ahead of the U.K and we landed in Auckland on time at 5:20am both kind of in a daze. Chris did manage to sleep a little, but bless him, it was the kind of sleep where you jolt your head every couple of minutes, so that did keep me entertained most of the journey.

Control tower in Auckland

We didn’t have a great deal to do to kill time before our next flight to Christchurch in 7 hour’s time apart from, go through security and change to the domestic terminal so we did this as slow as possible. To be fair though, it wasn’t too bad as our flight left on time at 12:10pm with no hassle and this time we had 3 seats for the two of us,

About to fly...

so I passed out before take-off and slept until Chris woke me up to check out the awesome scenery before entering Christchurch. We had already booked somewhere to stay, which is a hostel is New Brighton called Point Break on the outskirts of the city so we took 2 buses to get there

Awesome view from plane

which was relatively easy and the last bus driver dropped us off right outside of the door. As we had a van when in Australia so slept in that, this was our most expensive accommodation yet at about £60 for 2 nights and it was the cheapest we could find, so different from the bargain places you can find in Asia.

The snowy mountains from plane

When we got off the bus though it looked just like a building sight and when we checked in and paid the remaining balance we got taken upstairs to be shown our room. It was tiny with just a bunk bed wedged in the corner with the windows open and a builder outside drilling so all the dust was blowing in the room. Fantastic.

A Building Sight aka our hostel

So obviously we weren’t happy, but before we said anything, the manager showed up, took a 1 look at our gob-smacked faces and instantly moved us to a room out the back with no work going on. We were so happy, plus it was an en-suite with 4 beds in, including a double, so we quickly shut the door and locked it before they changed their minds. Unfortunately though for them, some other people saw we got upgraded so had a bit of hassle from them! Oops! Chris then forced me to go out and join him for a beer so I didn’t crawl straight into bed and get jet-lag so I finally got to sleep properly at 10pm thankfully!

Christchurch, New Zealand