We recently recieved a Xmas card from a couple of guests from the US thanking us for giving them good advice on what to see and do on the way down to Waihi Beach. These guests were arriviing on an early flight and wondered what they could see and do on the way down from the Auckland Int'l airport.
Our advice was to take time out for a leisurely walk in the Karangahake gorge and get some fresh air and enjoy the great scenery thats available in the gorge and follow that with lunch at the Ohinemuri Winery restaurant - we advised them to try the seafood chowder as it was legendry.
When our guests arrived they were eover the moon with our suggestions - they loved the gorge with its natural beauty and gold mining history and they really enjoyed the winery lunch including the seafood chowder. One of the guests has family in the seafood business back in the US and she was able to ring her dad and tell him she had found a restaurant that made better seafood chowder that they could in San Fransisco - "the best ever".
The thanks we received in person and in the Xmas card was quite humbling as we were just doing what we do in making guests aware of Southern Coromandel and what it has to offer.
For more info on cafes in and around Southern Coromandel - www.waihibeachlodge.co.nz/links.html
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