After driving through the Coromandel town three times and seeing a sign for a motel up a long hill, we finally decided we would stop there and ask for the price. The sign for the motel said "Celadon Cottages". We had no idea what to expect of a cottage. In the office, the host and his (probably about 21 year old) daughter were friendly and warm. The daughter showed us a room that would be $105 a night for the three of us. As soon as I walked into the room, I was stunned speachless! It was a block of rooms, with all of the rooms connected to each ther by doors. There was even a sun deck. This room was just too cute!
As the 21 year old girl showed us another room that would $95 a night, I waved at my dad, who was in the car, for him to come look at this room. I told him that I could not even describe it! I asked the girl if we could see the other room again, and when dad saw it, we decided that this was the place we wanted to stay. I felt bad that we had to lie to the owners about sneaking in a dog, since they had been so friendly and hospitible, so we told them that we had a dog. She said that it was fine, it's only an extra $10 for the cleaning! So the cutest cottage unit stay ever, and it costed $30 less than all the other motels! It's just amazing! Unfortunately, the weather was quite terrible, so we only ended up staying the one night in Coromandel, then headed back to Auckland the next day. On the way back to Auckland, we visited the Train and Pottery show, which was pretty cute. I really enjoyed it.
