Exploring Dunedin, New Zealand

Getting Around Dunedin

Getting around Dunedin is fairly easy as majority of the Dunedin's attractions are quite close. While daily tours are available to visitors, travelling independantly is the ideal as it offers you the opportunity to see Dunedin at your pace. It's advised that you book your car rental vehicle before reaching Dunedin, to bypass the long queues at the car rental desks.

Local transportation is an viable option for travelers getting from one attraction to another.

Things to do in Dunedin

Dunedin's wildlife conservation efforts, make it an ideal location to see many of New Zealands unique wildlife in their own environment. These conservation tours allows visitors to explore these unique natural environments.

No trip is complete without a wildlife tour of the Otago Peninsula, one of the world's unique wildlife areas, as it's the gateway to large ocean feeding grounds resulting in a large variety of marine widlife living around the Penninsula. Several Otago Penninsula tour operators offer the opportunity to experience close encounter with many of the wildlife from marine/wading birds, royal albatross, Hooker's sea lions, blue penguins, New Zealand fur seals and yellow-eyed penguins.

While there's plenty to do outdoors, Dunedin hosts a variety museums and art galleries that houses many of New Zealands unique historical documents as well as upcoming contemporay art pieces.

Unique victorian buildings remains visitors of Dunedins hsitorical past, none more so like the Southern Cross Hotel, formerly the Grand Hotel was built in the 1880's and recently refurbished to become the Souther Cross hotel. This historic hotel is home to Dunedin Casino which sports Monte Carlo style rooms, taking visitors back grandeur of yesteryear.

Accommodation in Dunedin

Like the diverse wildlife found in Dunedin, accommodation comes in all shapes and sizes. from luxary and boutique hotels and suites to farm home stays, and self contained apartments. No matter where you plan to go in Dunedin, you'll be able to find suitable accommodation for your Dunedin trip.