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Find low cost holidays from Brisbane to Auckland, choosing from a wide selection of 3 star, 4 star and 5 star deluxe hotels in some of Auckland's most popular locations. Start your holiday from Brisbane and select from a wide choice of hotels in Auckland and the beautiful nearby areas. So check out cheap holidays from Brisbane to Auckland and bargain Auckland hotels now with XL.com.

Auckland - panoramic City of Sails

New Zealand's largest city straddles the harbours of Waitemata and Manukau and, built on the site of ancient, extinct volcanoes, its scenery is stunning. Embracing four cities and three districts in one urban sprawl, its sheer size difficult to take in so climb high for the best panoramic views of Auckland. Scenic plane and helicopter trips will whisk you out over the Hauraki Gulf islands and Auckland's landmark Sky Tower is topped by an observatory boasting breathtaking views over Auckland's twin harbours, islands, hills and city panorama.

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Auckland's many beaches

Auckland's impressive beaches of sweeping sands provide excellent swimming, snorkelling, scuba diving and surfing opportunities. With more than 100 beaches within easy reach, safe and popular swimming beaches such as Mission Bay tend to be on the east coast and closer to the city centre. Auckland's western coastline is raw, wild and magnificent, swells off the Tasman Sea producing strong waves with the beaches at Piha and Karekare renowned for renowned for their excellent surfing conditions.

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Auckland holiday nightlife

With over 400 bars, pubs and clubs, the Auckland night scene is split into four main areas with many smart venues and local favourites situated in the Viaduct waterfront area and the city suburbs of Ponsonby and Parnell. K Road is probably the city's funkiest street, DJ clubs, live bands and comedy venues clustered around Queen Street at the end of the Karangahape Road. For casinos try the 24-hour gambling haven and entertainment complex of Sky City at the foot of the Sky Tower.

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Auckland holiday thrills

Auckland Harbour Bridge is one of the city's most distinctive landmarks and site of one of the world's most famous leaps, a bungy jump down 40 metres into the bay waters below. Also for daredevils Auckland's spectacular Sky Tower, at 328 metres high, the tallest tower in the southern hemisphere offers a base controlled sky jump or a Vertigo Climb that allows you to climb from the upper observation deck to the first crow's nest.

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Bay of Islands - a Polynesian holiday paradise

Stretching north from Auckland is the Northland spur of land and the Bay of Islands, reaching into warmer tropical waters and a South Pacific gathering place for overseas sailing yachts on world cruises, international sport fishermen, holiday golfers and marine enthusiasts. Explore the magnificent ancient Kauri rainforests, visit Cape Reinga and the 90-mile beach at the very northern tip of the country, enjoy swimming with the dolphins or take a diving trip to the famous sunken wreck of the Rainbow Warrior. The area also has great historical significance housing the Captain Cook Memorial Museum and Treaty House, home of the landmark 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.

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Outdoor adventures

Absolutely stunning scenery around Auckland is just perfect for exploring the great outdoors. Lake swimming, trout fishing, rainforest treks, bush walks and hiking up to steamy waters of Crater Lake at the top of Mount Ruapehu are all low key activities whilst at the other end of the spectrum the jet boating and white water rafting on the Waikato, New Zealand's longest river, is rumoured to be amongst the best in the world.

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Rotorua - the lake district of the North Island

Just 100 miles from Auckland, much of the central North Island, with Rotorua at its centre, lies in an area known as the Taupo Volcanic Zone. Part of the great Pacific Ring of Fire, this incessant volcanic activity has resulted in a number deep water lakes formed from the craters of ancient volcanoes. Lake Taupo is New Zealand's largest lake, its stunning surroundings attracting windsurfers, water skiers and trout fishermen whilst thrill seekers can attempt bungy jumps and freefall sky dives above its glistening waters and gorges.

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Rotorua's volcanic wilderness

A place of extraordinary natural beauty, Rotorua is an intriguing wonderland of thermal springs, gushing geysers, bubbling mud pools and steaming craters. Whakarewarewa or whaka is probably the best known site in Rotorua, near the banks of the Puarenga River, its 500 or so hot springs exuding a distinct smell of sulphur and encrusted in warm mud and its huge geyser, Pohutu erupting 15 or so times a day, its steaming plume reaching up to 90 feet in height. The Kakahi Falls is the largest hot water falls in the southern hemisphere hot pools, boiling mud and steam vents.

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Rotorua's Agrodome

One of New Zealand's most unique attractions is the Agrodome in Rotorua, a huge working sheep farm with shows, sheep shearing geared to give visitors a real hands-on experience of farming. At the other extreme adventure seekers should not miss the Agrodome, the attraction filled with adrenalin inducing rides including jet sprint boat rides, bungy jumps above the Ngongotoha River, swoop bungy flying, freefall skydiving, volcano helicopter rides and zorb, the ultimate challenge of a steep downhill run in a huge plastic sphere.

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Maori culture

Rotorua is a good place too for an insight into Maori culture with the Rotorua Art and History Museum and the Maori Arts and Craft Centre in nearby Whakarewarewa. Also in Whaka is a Maori Pa or fortified village and the buried village, an excavated Maori dwelling that fell victim to the Tarawera eruption of 1886. Join in Maori festivities with singing, dancing and feasting round a traditional hangi where the food is steamed in a pit with heated stones.

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