Rotorua Travel Guide (2026): When to Go, Where to Stay, Things to Do
Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Rotorua, Where the Ground Breathes We almost skipped Rotorua. A friend warned us off it — “it smells like rotten eggs, you’ll hate it” — and for the first ten minutes after we parked, walking past a sidewalk vent puffing steam into the cold air, I thought she might be right. Then we watched the Pōhutu geyser fire a column of boiling water thirty metres into the sky, sat down that evening to a hāngī pulled steaming from the earth, and by the next morning I genuinely couldn’t smell the sulphur anymore. The nose adjusts. The wonder doesn’t. ...