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Queenstown Holiday Inn Express and Suites manager general manager Jason Sabin discusses the impending opening of the hotel in June 2020.
Opened in July 2020, New Zealand s first Holiday Inn Express is a versatile hotel making it easy for leisure and business guests to maximise their time experiencing and exploring the surrounding region. The Space Located on a ridge above the lakefront, the dramatic rooftop and architectural style of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Queenstown reflects the jagged, indigo skyline of the nearby Remarkables mountain range.
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Relaxing around a fire pit on the hotel s Ember outdoor terrace is popular on cooler evenings.
A family campervan holiday to Northland
12 Sep, 2020 09:30 PM
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A campervan holiday with family. Photo / 123rf
Setting out
There is a moment two hours into every family road trip when this all suddenly feels like a very bad idea.
The young ones are restless. Driving is boring (it s hard to argue with them on long stretches of motorway leading out of the city centres). Your destination is too far, your lofty ambitions of showing them the country too high.
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But most of the fun of campervans is in using your vehicle as a home, and not in using your home as a vehicle. By which I mean: campervans aren t that great to drive, but they are a lot of fun to live in. For that reason, plan short spurts of driving from the get-go. An hour here, a quick leg stretch there. Another hour on the road, then the long-promised icecream at the next dairy you pass.
Mountain Scene
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Many think they’re mad.
But James Nicholson and his business partners, James and Jane Paterson and their son, Jack, decided to look for the opportunities Covid-19’s presented and when the chance came up to buy Canyon Brewing, they couldn’t pass it up.
The group took over the boutique Arthurs Point brewery and restaurant at the end of last year and officially launched its new era last Friday night.
Canyon was opened in the former Cavell’s building in June, 2018, by Wayfare, but it went into hibernation last March when New Zealand went into lockdown.
The 9.30pm text message that destroyed the beaches hopes of a big summer
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The 9.30pm text message that destroyed the beaches hopes of a big summer
By Lucy Cormack, Lanie Tindale and Danielle Mahe
December 31, 2020 12.59pm
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The timing could not have been worse. The locally brewed beers were stocked, the festoon lights strung and more than 50 musicians booked for the seven-week food and music festival that was to be Manly’s awakening from the COVID-19 slumber of 2020.
Business owners had spent the better part of three months planning the outdoor Market Lane Live event and the evening’s soft launch - one week before Christmas - had been a roaring success.