Christchurch

Christchurch accommodation centres on Hagley Park, the tram loop and the Riverside Market, in a city rebuilt low and flat. Laneways run beside surviving stone, and the Botanic Gardens sit inside a bend of the Ōtākaro Avon.

Apartments and townhouses work for a short stay in town; holiday homes out east swap that for a beach, a long pier and hot pools beside the sand at New Brighton. New Regent Street keeps its row of pastel shopfronts with the tram running down the middle.