maruia spring

so with anticipation, we arrived the hot spring place, without knowing this would be yet another let down

gorgeous setup for a resort. forest, hot spring, serene, no pollution whatsoever, japanese. yes, japanese, the whole spring was setup in japanese style. it may impressed the local, but what the hack, the tourism centre expect me to be excited over japanese style while my whole family fly 10 hours for a NZ encounter?~!

ok fine, at least the concept and the setup was great, but just because we are in extremely secluded area, you cant just charged us in such high price right? and guess what, the food is terrible to max, worse than the cheese+ rosemary+ overcooked chicken that i cooked (i am quite sure i was possessed while i was creating that horrible dish)


this is the indoor spring pool....quite nice but i dunno how to enjoy it. There's an outdoor 1, but there's so much mold and sandfly (which apparently means it is 100% natural hotspring) that it just put me off to the max....

thank god we had quite a lot of fun by playing card game 'turtle' with my dad. He just cracked us up by getting so excited whenever someone took away the Ace card from him....still find it so cute....i should really dig out the video and post it up