Friars' Guide to New Zealand Accommodation for the Discerning Traveller [Paperback]

Denis Friar (Author), Jillian Friar (Author)

Book Description

Series: Friars Guide | Publication Date: January 1, 2003

The Friars' accommodation guide quickly established a reputation as a beautiful handbook of top-class accommodation throughout New Zealand, complete with full colour photographs of the venues and descriptive text of special features and amenities. Now in their eighth year of publication, the Friar's guide continues to offer the discerning traveller reliable information on the best places to stay in New Zealand. Featuring top of the range bed and breakfast and self-contained accommodation, along with the best accommodation offering fine dining, this guide is the definitive reference to top New Zealand accommodation.

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About the Author

Jillian and Denis Friar are a well-known husband and wife team who work together as freelance writer and photographer. They are the authors of several successful titles including the New Zealand Gardens Open to Visit and are contributors to several magazines.

Product Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Hodder Moa Becket (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1869589068
• ISBN-13: 978-1869589066
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,274,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best kept secrets of New Zealand Accommodation, September 20, 2000

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Ross Fisher (Auckland, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friars' Guide to New Zealand Accommodation for the Discerning Traveller (Paperback)

I was in one of the boutique hotels that is featured in this book one night while out of my home town on business. (Dorothy's Boutique Hotel in Christchurch - a must stay place! ) In each of the rooms of this hotel was this fanastic guide to NZ accommodation.

Instead of being one of those typical hotel nights, where you are bored silly, I was fascinated to flick through the pages and see somem of the regions of our great country that have adopted the concept of becoming unique in themselves.

I have since visited many of the Hotels and Guest rooms featured, and in every case it has felt like staying with friends, not that plastic feel that alot of hotels have.

I would seriously recommend this book for all travellers that want to see the "real" New Zealand. Not that NZ is fake, but there are so much more to our country than the central cities.

I have this book on my coffee table at home, representing some of the best NZ places to visit and stay.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do not consider going to NZ as a tourist without this book, October 3, 2001

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Clarke Pitts - See all my reviews

This review is from: Friars' Guide to New Zealand Accommodation for the Discerning Traveller (Paperback)

NZ is not littered with large hotels; most tourist accommodation is bed and breadfast and very good at that. This book documents most of the best in the country, with detailed comments, prices and several pictures of each place so that you have a clear idea of what it will be like.