State Highway 2 heading South from Napier took us past Hastings and on down to the Central Hawkes Bay area.
A pleasant drive.
At Waipukurau we stopped at the first Motel we saw.
The Tuki Tuki Motel.
Named after the Tukituki River.
The first pic is from the Motel carpark across the road to distant hills.
The kitchen, dining and lounge area was quite cosy and adequate for our needs.
And the bedroom was lovely.
And we even had our own patio dining area.
Tony was happy that his Prado was undercover.
That's 'our' Motel room on the left.
And the obligatory Peanut Prado photos follow.
Peanut
We stayed at the Tuki Tuki Motel most of the week.
Very clean and tidy place and the owners were very helpful.
There was one problem, but it wasn't the Motel itself that was at fault.
There was a new petrol station being built on the side road by the Motel, and the workers started work rather early in the morning. Lorries and trucks carrying all manor of equipment were being unloaded. Cement mixer lorries tipping their load at 6 or 7am is not funny when you are on holiday.
We are not used to traffic noise either, so that also disturbed our sleep a bit, even though the road was not a main road or a busy road, it still had some cars on it.
