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A Wellingtonian's Guide to Drinking Coffee in Melbourne
We decided to investigate what makes Melbourne's coffee brilliant.
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FeatureNew Zealand Summer Guide 2024-2025
Everyone's favourite season of the year has arrived, and we're here to help you make it your best summer ever.
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NewsTen of the Most Blissful Waterfront Stays You Can Book in East Gippsland
This regional gem is filled with idyllic waterfront retreats offering the ultimate antidote to city life.
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NewsTwenty of the Best Airbnb Stays You Can Book in Tasmania
Book one — or a few — of these cabins, suites and lodges as you plan a trip around the Apple Isle.
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NewsFifteen of the Most Unique Stays You Can Book Around New Zealand
Spend a few nights in a leafy treehouse, a beautifully restored truck perched right on the bay or even a mountaintop cabin with views for days.
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FeatureA Southern Edge Road Trip: Follow a CP Writer's Ambling Foodie Adventure in Tasmania's South
"While I love a scenic road trip with good company as much as the next person, this road trip truly rivalled almost every journey I can recall."
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NewsSix Tassie Restaurants Championing Paddock-to-Plate Dining For if You Like Eating Straight from the Source
Tasmania is home to some of the finest produce grown anywhere in Australia — here's where to sample it straight from the source.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Kangaroo Island
The South Australian island's wineries, beaches, oyster farms and accommodation are as beautiful as ever.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Queensland's Bundaberg Region
Watch baby turtles hatch, swim at the Southern Great Barrier Reef, then sample award-winning local gin and rum.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide To Bowral and the Southern Highlands
Stay at a country estate, taste locally produced wine and whisky, peruse a whole heap of art and feast at a hatted restaurant — all in just one weekend.
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NewsThe Essential Spring Long Weekender's Guide to Hobart
For New Zealanders in search of epic adventures, incredible scenery, delicious gastronomy and damn good wine, you don't have to travel far.
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GuideThe 14 Best Hotels In Melbourne
Whether you're vacationing or staycationing, this lineup of the best hotels in Melbourne will help you live your best life — fine restaurants, premium spas and pillow menus await.
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NewsThe Best Places to Go Glamping in New Zealand
Choose from seaside glamping spots, campsites in the mountains and tents scattered about countryside farms full of roaming sheep.
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NewsThe Most Romantic Places to Stay in Bali When Proposals and Honeymoons Come Calling
Perfect for those looking to honeymoon or just run away with their special someone.
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NewsOur Guide to the Best Glamping Sites Around Australia
Stay in luxury tents scattered among remote deserts, lush rainforests and tropical islands at these Australian glamping sites.
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GuideThe Ten Best Hotels in Brisbane
Whether you're vacationing or staycationing, this lineup of the top hotels in Brisbane will help you live your best life — fine restaurants, premium spas and rooftop pools for days.
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GuideThe Best Hotels in Sydney
Whether you're vacationing or staycationing, this lineup of the top hotels in Sydney will help you live your best life — fine restaurants, premium spas and unbeatable views across the city await.
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Travel & LeisureUber Launches Cash-Only Auto-Rickshaw Service
A world first for the taxi-challenging app.
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Travel & LeisureThis New Hotel Offers Accomodation for Both Tourists and Refugees
Now here's a bighearted social enterprise.
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Travel & LeisureYour Guide to a Bay of Islands Weekend Getaway
There is no sparsity of sea views or good vibes in the Bay of Islands.
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Food & DrinkAuckland CBDLucky Buddha - CLOSED
An Asian fusion restaurant and menu designed for sharing.
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Travel & LeisureAirbnb's Latest Terrifying Stay is Snuggled In the End of This Ski Jump
Checkout is via zipline. Really.
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Travel & LeisureTen Hotel Oases That Will Cool You Down in Summer
The lowdown on where the trendsetters sleep.
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Food & DrinkThe Five Best Vineyard Getaways in Australia
Pop open a bottle of estate-grown wine at these stylish stays among the Australian vines.
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Food & DrinkCBDMonsoon Poon
Through Monsoon Poon's doors are the lantern-lit South East Asian vibes of yesteryear.
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Travel & LeisureYou Can Rent This Entire Cave on Airbnb
It's a cave. Your accommodation is an entire cave.
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Travel & LeisureSpend a Luxurious, Terrifying Night Dangling at 9000ft
Two double beds and 360 degree views, but no bathroom.
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Food & DrinkThe Ten Best Cafes on the North Shore
The Shore is home to free parking, an endless coast of user-friendly beaches and some of the most relaxed cafes in town.
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Travel & LeisureThe Ten Best Drives in the Auckland Region
Sunvisors, cityscapes and seaside adventures - buckle up, we've got the best drives in town.
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Travel & LeisureAucklandSilo Park Bike Markets
Aspiring cyclists and veterans alike will be treated to a day of bike-related events.
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Travel & LeisureThe Ten Best Things to Come Out of Jamaica
Jerk, James Bond, the world's finest coffee and rum? Thank Jamaica.
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Travel & LeisureMr and Mrs Smith’s Boutique Hotel Bucket List
Let the winners of the Smith Hotel Awards inspire your daydreaming.
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Travel & LeisureThe Seven Best Staycations in Auckland
Snorkel in a pristine marine reserve, take a tour through some of New Zealand's best wineries, cardboard box down an old World War II bunker-laden hill or surf the West Coast.
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Food & DrinkFive Dining Trends That Are Big in Japan
Japan has 32 Michelin-starred restaurants. These aren't them.
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Food & DrinkAucklandScarlett Slimms & Lucky
Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.
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Travel & LeisureYour Guide to Queenstown Part Four: What to Do
Here's just a tiny morsel of the activities Queenstown has to offer.
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Food & DrinkYour Guide to Queenstown Part Three: Where to Drink and Where to Sleep
Where to take yourself out to after the sun goes down and where to tuck in afterwards.
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Arts & EntertainmentThe Ten Best Boutique Hotel Holidays in the Maldives
Too much pretty in the Maldives.
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Food & DrinkYour Guide to Queenstown Part Two: Where to Eat
Celebrity chef Josh Emmett’s Queenstown fort and a contemporary ‘Polynasian’ restaurant are just some of the foodie highlights of the town.
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Arts & EntertainmentYour Guide to Queenstown Part One: Where to Ski
Queenstown really is a movie star in its own right.
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Arts & EntertainmentBurning Man Postponed Due to Heavy Desert Rain
Nevada's annual desert bacchanal has wet feet.
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Travel & LeisureYou Can Stay Airbnb at IKEA (and They’ll Let You Keep the Sheets)
Display home SLUMBER PARTAY.
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Arts & EntertainmentHumans of New York Has Gone Global
Photographer Brandon Stanton has left the five burroughs behind.
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Arts & EntertainmentMelbourne and Auckland Ranked Friendliest Cities in the World
Up high, y'damn courteous bunch.
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Travel & LeisureTake a Few Drone Selfies during your next South Island Snow Trip
The drones will be flying all over the South Island during July and August.
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Food & DrinkTokyo is Opening a Pop-Up Pikachu-Themed Cafe
Get amongst these absolute Pokemonstronsities.
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Arts & EntertainmentMr and Mrs Smith’s Ten Best Winter Warmer Retreats in Australia and NZ
The boutique hotel experts have some special offers to help you make the most of winter.
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Travel & LeisureThe Grand Budapest Hotel is Killing It on Trip Advisor
"Charming, luxurious, soothing, breathtaking... these are just some of the words I'd use to describe the concierge."
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Arts & EntertainmentChoose Your Own Whitsundays Adventure
Four itineraries for the high flyer, adventurer, sea baby or person of leisure.