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 Traveller's Tales: Getting around in Christchurch, New Zealand
Know the most popular landmarks in Christchurch, New Zealand. You may read about best transportation, recommended travel itinerary, suggested routes and directions. Also, you might want to read our
Auckland city guide,
Bay of Islands city guide,
Dunedin city guide,
Queenstown city guide,
and Wellington city guide.
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| R Flaherty (2nd stay) |
05 January 2005 |
Stayed at Sudima Hotel Grand Chancellor Christchurch Airport - Christchurch, New Zealand.
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The hotel is next door to the Antarctic Center. It is a good place to go. There is a bus stop in front of the hotel that you can go to downtown Christchurch. There is great shopping and food and tourist attractions. At the firehall, there is a Sept 11 memorial and they have some of the steel beams from the World Trade Center in a sculpture. Downtown is a good place to spend several hours. Buy a "day pass" when you get on the bus for $7 and you will be able to return to the Sudima whenever you want that day. I mistakenly bought a one way for $5.
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| R Schulze |
05 March 2004 |
Stayed at Christchurch YMCA - Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Downtown Christchurch ranks among the most interesting of New Zealand areas. It is very English (more English than England as they say), clean, friendly, and with good food and reasonable prices. If you stay at the Y, then foot travel is all you need.
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| D Jackson |
25 September 2003 |
Stayed at Christchurch YMCA - Christchurch, New Zealand.
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TransAlpine Express from Christchurch to Greymouth was wonderful, also a day's trip by small bus to the glaciers, except it cost $180 per person and we had to buy our own lunch. If we'd known the road to the glaciers wasn't covered with snow, we'd have hired a car cheaper and driven ourselves. We hired a car from ABC(A Better Car) Rentals, 31 Moorhouse Ave, Christchurch for only $35 per day for a Toyota Tercel which managed the trip to Dunedin and return with no problems. They picked us up from the Hotel to take us to get the car and drove us back when we returned the car 6 days later.
The Antarctic Centre right next to Christchurch airport is a definite place to see - the section where you experience the cold Antarctic winds only opened a month ago. We were speaking to a lady who was going to the real Antarctic for the 4th time and she said the centre is a very good replica of what it's really like, so you can't get a better recommendation than that!
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| N Tait |
07 April 2003 |
Stayed at Rydges Christchurch - Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Very central location for strolling around Christchurch.
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| R Alderson |
08 July 2002 |
Stayed at Hotel Grand Chancellor Christchurch - Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Recommend tour to Antarctic Centre and Willowbank. Gondola ride and evening meal a must for sights over the city. Everyone we met in Christchurch was friendly and helpful, especially the 'characters' on the city trams.
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| A Schara |
17 September 2001 |
Stayed at Quality Pavilions - Christchurch, New Zealand.
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With vehicle all sites were easily accessible.
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| B Ling |
10 March 2001 |
Stayed at Christchurch YMCA - Christchurch, New Zealand.
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The tram is near the Arts Centre which makes it easy to go to the city. But it ends at 7pm. I would request for bus service. The free shutter bus does not cover the area near to YMCA, I had a difficult time to walking all the way from city carrying a bottle of 3L orange juice!
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| P Nasiatka |
01 February 2001 |
Stayed at Grange Guest House, The - Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Ideally located on the edge of the center square, we could walk to most of the downtown sites. The Royal Botanical Gardens are also within a very short walk. We took a 3 hour van tour of the Christchurch sites and this gave us a good overview. Also took the shuttle to the train station for our Trans Alpine train ride over Arthur's Pass to Greymouth.
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