Beck Vass, writing in today’s Herald, has highlighted the astronomical prices some New Zealand hotels are quoting for rooms during next year’s rugby world cup. The paper cited a quote of $2,400 per night which the Novotel in Christchurch gave to a tour operator, who was too embarrassed to tell his clients that hotels were…
Earlier today we wrote about the alcohol fuelled mayhem at last night’s Four Nation’s match at Eden Park. Read Drunken fans marr Eden Park’s Four Nations This is a video of one of the bottle throwing incidents at the match, it appeared on YouTube today “Eden Park November 6th. New Zealand V Australia. Unfortunately when…
Today’s Herald is reporting that drunken league fans marred last night’s Four Nations match between the Kiwis and Australia at Eden Park, when hails of beer bottles rained on to the pitch. This is but one of the consequences of selling alcohol in bottles -sooner or later drunk people are going to use them as…
This account was sent to us by a reader who landed at Auckland International airport today. The author is an experienced international traveller who is hoping that processing at the airport improves before next year’s rugby world cup. Eventually this will be incorporated into our popular series of Migrants Tales. Made it through Auckland international…
A writer for UK’s The Sunday Times has torn-off NZ Rugby a strip, saying their Haka is a self-important bore and arrogant. (emphasis ours) “IT WAS once a theatrical affair, loved by children and armchair fans, but the ridiculous bout of pre-game posturing has no place in rugby today.” The article, re-published on The Australian‘s…
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