Tararu Homestay Facilities

• Single room / Double room
• Separate guest bathroom with bath and shower
• Separate guest toilet
• Outdoor garden setting
• Sky TV
• Internet available
• Short walk to beaches and local store
• 5 minute drive to Thames township
• Easy access to the Coromandel Peninsula
• A comfortable cosy relaxed, non smoking home, with secure off street parking
• Breakfast - continental - Cooked: with early notice (extra charge will apply)

Thames is ideally situated as a holiday base because it is the main commercial capital for ‘The Coromandel’, as the peninsula is known, so full of tourist treats and views. Many people come from all around the region every Saturday morning to the Thames markets, when stalls are lined along Pollen Street and many interesting items bought that you just can't buy in the shops.  Thames Golf Course is then a pleasant 18-hole challenge for an afternoon's activity.

The list below shows some of the many interesting things to do in this region, and the world-famous Rotorua and its geysers are only 2.5 hour's drive away.
 

Within an hour’s drive one can visit many interesting places such as:-

• Butterfly and Orchid Garden, Tararu, Thames Coast

• Scenic Flights, Thames Airport

• Mining Museum, Thames

• Historical Museum, Thames

• Miniature Ride-on Railway, Thames

• Gold Mine Tours and Stamper Battery, Thames

• Rapaura Watergardens, Tapu, Thames Coast

• Ngatea Water Gardens, Ngatea (pronounced ‘nateeah’)

• Deep-sea fishing from Coromandel Town 

• The Waterworks, Coromandel

• Driving Creek Railway and Potteries, Coromandel Town

• Gold Stamper Battery, Coromandel Town

• Matatoki Cheese Factory 

• Antique shops galore in Paeroa (NZ’s antique capital)

• The spectacular Karangahake Gorge on the way to Waihi

• Martha’s Gold Mine, Waihi

• Goldfields Railway, Waihi

• Miranda Hot Springs, Miranda

and 1 1/2 hours from Thames:-

• Scenic Adventure Boat Trip, Hahei

• Hot Water Beach, Hahei