Guidebook for Rotorua

Aaron & Sarah
Aaron & Sarah
Guidebook for Rotorua

Drinks & Nightlife

If you're new to Rotorua the Pig is a great place to visit, it's an old Rotorua police station where you can get great pub food & the meals are large, kitchen is open late to 10pm, Thursday to Saturday nights live band play covers from 9:30pm
48 locals recommend
Pig & Whistle, Historic Pub
1182 Tutanekai St
48 locals recommend
If you're new to Rotorua the Pig is a great place to visit, it's an old Rotorua police station where you can get great pub food & the meals are large, kitchen is open late to 10pm, Thursday to Saturday nights live band play covers from 9:30pm
Lava Bar is one of our local nightclubs where the backpackers hang out looking for a good time ;)
14 locals recommend
Lava Bar and Grill
1286 Arawa St
14 locals recommend
Lava Bar is one of our local nightclubs where the backpackers hang out looking for a good time ;)
Located on the main Eat Street, good food & well priced.
44 locals recommend
BREW | Craft Beer Pub
1103 Tutanekai St
44 locals recommend
Located on the main Eat Street, good food & well priced.

Food Scene

Don't know what you want for dinner??? go down to eat street as you will be spoilt for choice.
134 locals recommend
Eat Street
Tutanekai Street
134 locals recommend
Don't know what you want for dinner??? go down to eat street as you will be spoilt for choice.
Located up the Gondola, the Stratosfare Restaurant is an award winning buffet restaurant.
40 locals recommend
Stratosfare Restaurant
178 Fairy Springs Rd
40 locals recommend
Located up the Gondola, the Stratosfare Restaurant is an award winning buffet restaurant.
Dine in for lunch or dinner, they also have massage therapies with a relaxing spa & heated pool.
Wai Ora Lakeside Spa Resort
77 Robinson Ave
Dine in for lunch or dinner, they also have massage therapies with a relaxing spa & heated pool.
McDonald's
2 Robinson Avenue

Entertainment & Activities

Laser tag, chipmunks, trampoline park, timezone, tenpin bowling & more.... fun for all.
43 locals recommend
Motion Entertainment Rotorua
366 Te Ngae Rd
43 locals recommend
Laser tag, chipmunks, trampoline park, timezone, tenpin bowling & more.... fun for all.
21 locals recommend
Reading Cinemas
1281 Eruera St
21 locals recommend
Head up on the gondola & have fun on the luge ride coming down! Skyline also has an awesome downhill tracks for the experienced rider.
198 locals recommend
Skyline Rotorua
178 Fairy Springs Rd
198 locals recommend
Head up on the gondola & have fun on the luge ride coming down! Skyline also has an awesome downhill tracks for the experienced rider.
45 locals recommend
ZORB™ Rotorua
525 Ngongotaha Rd
45 locals recommend
Farm show & farm tour, get up & close to animals
43 locals recommend
Agrodome
141 Western Rd
43 locals recommend
Farm show & farm tour, get up & close to animals
Pat a Lion cub or watch the lions feed, walk through the park patting other farm animals
31 locals recommend
Paradise Valley Springs
467 Paradise Valley Rd
31 locals recommend
Pat a Lion cub or watch the lions feed, walk through the park patting other farm animals

Sightseeing

Check out the tree walk or just go for a walk through the redwoods, even better hire a bike or take your own through the many tracks
150 locals recommend
Redwoods Treewalk
Tarawera Road
150 locals recommend
Check out the tree walk or just go for a walk through the redwoods, even better hire a bike or take your own through the many tracks
Hot day? Head out to one of our lakes for a swim or you can go for a walk/run around the lake.
51 locals recommend
Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake)
Tarawera Road
51 locals recommend
Hot day? Head out to one of our lakes for a swim or you can go for a walk/run around the lake.
Visit geothermal mud pools or take a mud bath
54 locals recommend
Hells Gate Geothermal Park and Mud Bath Spa
351 State Hwy 30
54 locals recommend
Visit geothermal mud pools or take a mud bath

Essentials

51 locals recommend
Countdown Rotorua
246 Fenton St
51 locals recommend
For professional laundry facilities in Rotorua
Tendercare Laundry
10 Ti St
For professional laundry facilities in Rotorua
47 locals recommend
PAK'nSAVE Rotorua
Amohau Street
47 locals recommend

Arts & Culture

Entry fee required. Check out Rotorua's geyser & thermal area through Whaka Village
123 locals recommend
Te Puia station
123 locals recommend
Entry fee required. Check out Rotorua's geyser & thermal area through Whaka Village

Parks & Nature

FREE!!! Want to check out thermal mud pools!!! head down to our thermal park where you can view mud pools bubbling away & a thermal foot pool to soak your feet, cool place to take the kids or a romantic walk, there is a park for the kids to have a play too.
59 locals recommend
Kuirau Park
Ranolf Street
59 locals recommend
FREE!!! Want to check out thermal mud pools!!! head down to our thermal park where you can view mud pools bubbling away & a thermal foot pool to soak your feet, cool place to take the kids or a romantic walk, there is a park for the kids to have a play too.
The Government Gardens is a public park, partly laid out as gardens, located by Lake Rotorua in central Rotorua
57 locals recommend
Government Gardens
57 locals recommend
The Government Gardens is a public park, partly laid out as gardens, located by Lake Rotorua in central Rotorua
Geothermal walk, if you're not a keen walker this is not for you, but a bus is available to take you back if you don't want to walk back up to the top of the hill. Boat cruise on the lake.
33 locals recommend
Waimangu Volcanic Valley
587 Waimangu Rd
33 locals recommend
Geothermal walk, if you're not a keen walker this is not for you, but a bus is available to take you back if you don't want to walk back up to the top of the hill. Boat cruise on the lake.