New Zealand Tour Map Travel Blog

It is happening even in the best of New Zealand’s accommodation establishments. I’m talking about hotel rooms that don’t have spare toilet rolls. In these recessionary times I am increasingly finding rooms are poorly equipped with supplies. Forget the coffee sachets, who drinks instant coffee or Milo, but we all need to be supplied with more than half a roll of toilet paper?

The weekend trek to Dunedin delivered the same experience, a large one bedroom apartment style room equipped with a 40 inch flat screen television in both the living room and bedroom and a lovely marble bathroom…. supplied with half a roll of toilet paper. The concept of a half roll is creepy enough but no spare roll is terrifying.

Its been happening all over New Zealand of late. At first I thought it was a simple case of slack house keeping. As this was not the first time this has happened at this particular establishment I thought I should enquire about the lack of one of life’s essentials.

Apparently since the recession, guests are taking the spare rolls, all the tea and coffee and even the towels are on their ‘most wanted list’.

Google has now added Street Views to their mapping of all New Zealand towns. This gives travellers the ability to view your potential accommodation prior to booking.

Many inbound travellers pre-book NZ accommodation using the internet and rely heavily on hotel websites. Disappointed travellers often complain that the accommodation is not what was offered on the website. Lake front can turn out to be across the road from the lake, Lodges can be glorified bed and breakfasts and walking distance to town can be many kilometres away.

Now using Street Views you can see exactly the property and the surrounding area avoiding disappointment and bypassing the often over hyped website descriptions.