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The whole family was to meet-up and spend the night at Christchurch prior to us heading out to Akaroa, 75km out of the city for the week....

Julie's dad had booked us in this nearby motel... just to crash for the night... we rented 2 units... theirs was bigger and had a full kitchen... for cooking our meals... cooking is definately cheaper then eating out... they also managed to get a set of walkie-talkies so we could communicate between cars or rooms... cheap... NZ$50 for a set of 2

They picked up their rental car one day earlier and got a bigger car... a mitsubishi lancer...


We got our car the next day... a smaller one... mitsubishi colt... it had a cool automatic boot opener (our total rental plus petrol came to NZ$860 for the entire trip)


One things for sure... there were lots of beautiful flowers all over... even just planted all around this simple motel.



So after one night of rest, we checked out and headed to the Antartic Centre nearby first. Check-out times in NZ are way early... 9.30-10.00am latest! so we had to kill time before heading to Akaroa, where check-in was 3.00pm...