Thank you all who’ve asked for a Blog Hui poster. Clicking on the image will download a higher resolution (but still a slender 317 kb) poster in a powerpoint document (to get past those excessive firewalls).
Please feel free to distribute the poster amongst friends, family, and foes alike.
Getting from the Blog Hui venue, Turnbull House, to the Aitken on Mulgrave hotel is as easy as going from left to right < ---> getting from Aitken on Mulgrave hotel to Turnbull House is as easy as going from right to left.
Beehive end of Molesworth Street < - - - - - - - > Aitken on Mulgrave Hotel
Click on the above image to load a larger (180kb) mural image. The Beehive and Turnbull House are on the left of the image. To get to the Aitkin, walk up Mulgrave Street and turn right into Aitken. The hotel is opposite the cranes busy with the new Ministry of Defence building on the right of the image. The view is about 270o.
Turnbull House – the Blog Hui venue – is one of Wellington’s stately architectural period pieces managed by the Department of Conservation. It’s located in Bowen Street (opposite the Beehive), between the Terrace and Lambton Quay in central downtown Wellington.
Parking might be a something of a challenge, although there are parking buildings within walking distance, off the Terrace. If you’re local, get the bus to the north end of Lambton Quay and just walk around the corner is probably the best bet/least stress.
Just across the road is the Beehive, the political nerve centre of New Zealand. In the left hand corner of this image, the top roof lines of Turnbull House can be seen.
People travelling from within New Zealand are possibly all organised for getting here to Wellington, but for people travelling from further afield (or even if you are ‘local’), we suggest you might like to contact our official Blog Hui travel guru-ess, Letia Brown.
Letia Brown
Flight Centre Travel Broker
Telephone (+64) 4 387 8922 Fax (+64) 4 387 8923
email: letia.brown.nz@flightcentre.co.nz
Letia has oodles of experience as a corporate travel broker, and she’s more than happy to help you with accommodation and further travel in New Zealand if you wish to extend your travel experience a notch more.
There are a number of hotels and apartments within easy walking of Turbull House. We can recommend the Aitken on Mulgrave. The manager (Mike McMullan) has offered Blog Hui attendees a reduced rate for the Thursday (16th) night – usually $135, if you tell them ‘Blog Hui’ you’ll get the night for $99 – weekend rates. Hoo-rah! Email (info[@]wellingtoncityhotel.co.nz) or call Mike on +64 4 473 1870 (fax: +64 4 473 4014).
We’ve checked around and the prices are great, especially as seeing as Wellington accommodation is filling quickly for the NZ International Arts Festival.
You can walk from the Aitken to the venue (Turnbull House) in an easy 10 minutes, even lugging your laptop.
If you’re flying in to Wellington you can get a cab to the Aitken (approx $20-25) or get the Flyer bus ($5.00). If you’re taking the bus, get off at the Beehive (Parliament), walk up Molesworth Street (past the Backbencher Pub – the self proclaimed bastion of social intercourse) to Aitken Street, and turn right down to the Aitken (at the other end of the block from the National Library).
If you’re driving in down the motorway, take the Murphy Street off ramp.
Why not plan on making an extended weekend in the capital to take in some of the NZ International Arts Festival? For more on things to see and do in Wellington there is the official Wellington tourism web site.
If you are flying in to Blog Hui from Auckland or Christchurch, there’s a reasonable chance you can fly in on the Friday (17th) morning. If you are flying in from other towns, or countries, we suggest flying in the day before.
From the airport you can get a cab to the venue (Turnbull House) for about $20-25.
A shuttle is a little less.
The cheapest option (apart from walking – possible but you’d have to be very keen) is to get the orange airport bus – the Flyer. As you leave the ground floor exits of the airport turn to the right and go just around the corner. The orange Flyer (Number 91) bus is either there, or will be any minute – it’s on a 30 minute turnaround. Here’s the timetable from the Airport to the city. The fare is a very fair $5.00.
Tell the driver you want to get out at the foot of Lambton Quay, near to the Beehive (Parliament). From there Turnbull House is literally around the corner.
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