Rotorua Weekend

Friday 27th April - Sunday 29th April

Depart 10am Friday

Rotorua is an active volcanic zone and home to New Zealand’s world-famous boiling mud pools and geysers. On this trip you will have a fantastic opportunity to witness these natural wonders, learn about the local Maori culture and eat a hangi lunch. Another highlight of the weekend will be relaxing at the local well kept secret – Kerosene Creek, a 100% natural hot spring that features a hot waterfall surrounded by native forest. We’ll also do a bit of a tiki-tour around town to take in some of Rotorua’s best sights. Our dorm-room accommodation has a geo-thermally heated swimming pool and an awesome location within easy walking distance of the night-life hub, a free geothermal park and Lake Rotorua.

This trip has been organised to be as affordable as possible. We have awesome discounts for the optional activities for those of you who want to do it all, but if you would rather just come along for the ride and do your own thing in Rotorua, that’s fine too.

Cost: $175 for USU members (all Unitec students); $200 for everyone else

Includes transport, accommodation, lunch every day (Sunday is a hangi), breakfast on Sat and Sun, BBQ dinner on Saturday, sightseeing in Rotorua and at Blue Lake, swimming at Kerosene Creek and entrance to Te Puia at Whakarewarewa Thermal Valley (Sunday).

Optional Activities: For more details about these activities, go to the USU website www.usu.co.nz/experience-nz or ask at reception.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON (choose 1 only)

  • Hobbiton Movie Set Tour $83.50 A behind the scenes tour of the L.O.T.R. set.

  • Rotorua Zorb: $25 Roll down a hill inside a giant water-filled hamster ball!

  • Rotorua Luge: $12.25 for the gondola + $6 per luge ride There’s no ice involved in kiwi-style luging, just you, your friends, gravity-powered go-carts and a concrete track. So much fun!

SATURDAY

  • Kaituna River White Water Rafting: $65 Enjoy paddling down this scenic waterway punctuated by raging, thundering white water, including the world’s highest commercially rafted waterfall.

  • Other: For those who choose not to go white water rafting, you could go mountain biking, to a wildlife park, or see more of Rotorua’s thermal wonders.

SUNDAY

  • Agroventures: $25 per activity, or $65 for a bungy More “only in New Zealand” extreme activities that involve hurtling at speed through the air, along the water, or around a pedal-powered monorail.

Register at USU reception or email usuinternational@unitec.ac.nz by 4pm Friday 20th April.