polynesian spa

Sabine, the FGV receptionist, told us about the Polynesian Spa, a Conde Nast top-10 spa/health resort down the road, open til 11 pm. We’d planned on just cooking dinner and crashing for an early morning departure, but this sounded intriguing so we decided to try it out.

For $17, we got entry into 7 hot mineral water pools – 4 acid, 3 alkaline, fed by the hot springs. The spa was great – the pools were all slightly different temperatures, and a couple of them looked right out onto Lake Rotorua. Going at night was great – it wasn’t too crowded, and the lake was pretty at night.