Astray Backpackers - Rotorua, New Zealand

This was a fun place to stay and no, Rotorua didn’t smell of sulphur as badly as we were led to believe.  The rooms here are designed as what they call “compact accommodation” and Jude the owner cautioned me on the phone that they were in fact very small.  I told her that we stayed in some very compact accommodations in Japan and that I was sure that we could fit five comfortably in their unit designed for four people.  (We’ve come a long way from our old, large and spacious home back in Durham.)  Yes, we squeezed in very well and save for the night that Jack and Eliot were sharing the bottom bunk together peace was in the air.  We liked the thoughtful design of the unit, with some in the family especially liking the two tvs with SKY cable service, our first in many, many weeks.

WGGSH? - Probably

WWSHA? - Yes, although it was a bit expensive.