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Restaurants & cafés
Atticus Finch The sister-run sharing-plates restaurant on Eat Streat that locals send out-of-towners to first. The menu drifts around the Mediterranean with a heavy fire-grill influence, and the cocktail list is the best on the street. A reliably good dinner that does not require an occasion.
Eastwood Hidden inside the Scion forestry research campus on the edge of the Redwoods, this is Rotorua's best brunch by a wide margin. Dog-friendly deck, a menu of waffles and rice pudding and shakshuka, and the prettiest cafe building in town. Locals plan their forest walks around it.
Trails & outdoors
Redwoods Treewalk Twenty-eight suspended platforms strung through the giant Californian redwoods at canopy height, with optional after-dark Nightlights installation by NZ designer David Trubridge. The walk takes 40 minutes and is the city's signature paid experience. Worth it once, especially at night.
Redwood Memorial Grove Track The free flat loop through the cathedral of Californian redwoods that everyone walks first. Pram-friendly, well marked, and the trees are genuinely jaw-dropping at any time of day. Locals walk it before work.
Things to do
Polynesian Spa Twenty-eight mineral hot pools on the lake edge fed by two springs, ranging from family pools to private lake-edge tubs at the deluxe end. The original Rotorua thermal-bathing experience and still the best-run. The Deluxe Lake Spa is the splurge worth doing.
Velocity Valley Adventure Park An adventure park bundling several of the city's adrenaline rigs onto one site: bungy-like Swoop, the Shweeb monorail race, a freefall bag drop and a jet-boat. Best as a half-day pick-three pass rather than queuing for each.
Landmarks & sights
Te Puia The cultural and geothermal anchor of Rotorua, set in the Whakarewarewa Valley where Pohutu geyser blasts skyward up to twenty times a day. Beyond the geysers you get the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute with live carving and weaving, plus a kiwi house. The combo of culture and steam in one fenced reserve is what people remember.
Whakarewarewa - The Living Maori Village A working village where Tuhourangi-Ngati Wahiao families have actually lived on top of the geothermal field since the 1800s, using the steam to cook and the pools to bathe. Guided walks pass meeting houses, steam vents and corn cooked in mineral water you can buy at the gate. Much more lived-in than the show villages.