Bennett and Slater

The Best of Wellington

s@r@hBennett — Sun, 26 May 2013 10:28:33 +0000

Yes – the rumours are true – the fifth edition of Wellington’s one, only, and original independent guidebook (since 2003) is out now.

The Dominion Post calls it ‘…. a cracking little guide to all that is great about the world’s coolest little capital … quirky and incisive … an essential companion. Who else would warn you to give the bucket fountain a wide berth to avoid soaking your trousers? … worth every one of the $26.’

The Best of Welly is available from many good local retailers, but please contact us for mail orders, bulk sales, and any other queries.

TheBestofWellington website will relaunch sometime before edition 6 – and that’s a promise! Facebook also doin’ it’s thing.

Biking the Old Ghost Road

s@r@hBennett — Fri, 10 May 2013 04:41:30 +0000

We ride the Lyell section of the Old Ghost Road, an 82-kilometre epic which will eventually link the ghost town of Lyell in the Buller Gorge, to Seddonville, a small rural outpost on the West Coast. Read more here.

Ask Lonely Planet in The New Zealand Herald

s@r@hBennett — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:21:16 +0000

It’s two years since our first weekly ‘Ask Lonely Planet’ column in The New Zealand Herald. That’s 200 questions on six continents (Antarctica, anyone?), one question about Nigeria, one about Komodo dragons, and innumerable queries about European train travel. Let the wanderlust never wane…

Ask Lonely Planet.

Queenstown in Vacations & Travel magazine

s@r@hBennett — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:06:25 +0000

In our first article for this gorgeous travel mag (April 2013 issue), we give you our dream 48 hours in and around Queenstown. It features some of the finest baking available to humanity!

Vacations & Travel

Vudu’s killer cakes (photo: Bennett & Slater)

NZ Cycle Trails on BBC Travel

s@r@hBennett — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:59:56 +0000

New Zealand has gone and got itself more than 20 new Cycle Trails. Yippee! In this backgrounder we tell how it happened, who’s behind it, and share some of the treats instore. Pedal on!

Read our article here.

Around the Mountains Cycle Trail (Photo: Bennett & Slater)

Middle-earth on Lonelyplanet.com

s@r@hBennett — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:42:12 +0000

Famed for dramatic scenery that has long-inspired writers, artists and dreamers, it’s no wonder New Zealand was cast as Tolkien’s mythical Middle-earth. In this article for Lonelyplanet.com we offer a hitlist for Hobbit-hunters.

Read it here.

Image by Ian Brodie, courtesy Tourism NZ

Discover New Zealand

s@r@hBennett — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:39:49 +0000

The foxy, full-colour, straight-to-the-point guidebook for people who want less information and more visual inspiration. You’re lookin’ good, Aotearoa! Proud, once again, to have our names on it. Massive thanks to the people at LP for keeping it real.

New Zealand’s North Island

s@r@hBennett — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:34:52 +0000

Five authors, 16 weeks’ on-the-road research, 65 maps and 16 million sheep… Team New Zealand pull yet another bewdy out of the bag.

New Zealand’s South Island

s@r@hBennett — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:31:25 +0000

Bennett & Slater joined Atkinson, Dragicevich & Prof Rawlings-Way on the third edition of LP’s South Island guidebook. Howsabout those beautiful boulders, eh?

New Zealand

s@r@hBennett — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:14:49 +0000

Lonely Planet’s fabulous, fully redesigned, 16th edition of New Zealand was released in September.

Sarah & Lee once again join the esteemed company of Brett Atkinson, Peter Dragicevich & Charles Rawlings-Way as co-authors of this book, under the expert captaincy of Errol Hunt. If you want to know what we did last summer, this is it…

Sarah was co-author of editions 15 (2010) and 14 (2008), too, along with associated titles such as New Zealand’s North Island; South Island; and Discover New Zealand.

Buy Lonely Planet New Zealand here.