welly

Our bus pulled into Wellington in the late afternoon, and we checked into the Base Wellington hostel (associated with ACB in Auckland). Sabrina knew one of the people working at the front desk, so we got upgraded to a ‘girls-only’ floor with an Aveda gift pack, hotel linens and free champagne…not the hostel experience we’ve been used to for the past week or so!

After checking in, we followed our tour guide (Sabrina, who spent August & September in the city) to Mac’s Brewery and took the cable car up to the botanical gardens. We had dinner at legendary Burger Fuel (I liked the fries, but the burgers weren’t as amazing as I’d heard) and headed out on the town later on with some of Sabrina’s friends and people from our bus.