The facilities at Waiwera Thermal Resort have changed in the last 165 years, but the water’s drawn from the same natural aquifer. I visited Waiwera recently, to check out the facilities. Waiwera now boasts many pools – including a movie pool which screens three movies daily. It’s the perfect way to relax and soak up a the mineral-rich waters – [...]

Love was in the air, everywhere they looked around.. We here at GrabOne love a bit of lovin’. In a strictly platonic sense of the word, obviously. Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of love-based gossip going on in the office, so when we hear about flourishing love stories out there in the real world, [...]

I am, much to my colleagues’ amusement, a fairly active person. Most weekends are spent tramping areas of New Zealand which means most Mondays I limp in with various bruises and achy spots. But not this Monday. Why not? Because on Sunday I experienced the Japanese stone spa at Bliss Stone Spa. The Japanese stone [...]

Having emigrated to New Zealand from the UK last year, I was forced to recognise an unpalatable truth – to get to where I really want to get in New Zealand, I’d have to learn to drive rather than rely on public transport. Eek! So when eDrive,  a virtual driver training programme, ran a deal [...]