Waitomo Caves Hotel

A couple of weeks ago while exploring

limestone caves two hours drive 

north of where I live, 

 I stayed for 

two nights in the Waitomo Caves Hotel

shown above.

I was glad to stay there because the

last time I had visited was when 

I was a boy. I stayed in this very hotel.

It was one of a number of resort hotels that

had been built by the New Zealand Government,

Chateau Tongariro was another one.

My parents used to go on Winter holidays

in their expensive Jaguar, all walnut 

and leather, to these hotels. 

Amazingly they used to let me drive

this machine when I was about 16 or 17.

This car was often seen outside Takapuna Grammar School.

After I had stayed in the Waitomo Caves Hotel

and saw the architecture of the hotel

I was so reminded of an abandoned hospital

here in New Plymouth.

I think that it may have been  built by

the same government architects.