Top 10+ Free/Nearly Free Things to Do
1.Wednesday BBQ at Cambridge Hotel on Cambridge Tce.- Come by six, buy a beer and receive a voucher for free BBQ.
2.BATS Theatre on Cambridge Tce.- Email staff saying that you would like to volunteer to sell concessions and in exchange see the play that night for free.
3.Te Papa & Museum of Wellington- Be sure to check out their special events/temporary exhibits.
4.Free Sausages- Every Friday from 10pm to Midnight near Vivian and Cuba (by school of Architecture & Design) sometimes you have to listen to the god spiel but usually it's bearable.
5.J.J Murphy's on Cuba St.- Rocks $5 Breakfast until noon on the weekends.
6.City Park flying fox swings- Up the hill on Brooklyn Rd. Free + dangerous = good fun.
7.Sunday Markets- Excellent, fresh, produce for wicked cheap. One market is alongside Te Papa on the waterfront, the other market is in a parking lot at the corner of Vivian & Victoria
8.Botanic Gardens- Flowers alongside the historic cemetery. Free
9.All-u-can-eat pizza- Mondays from six at Hell on Bond St. $12.
10.Free internet with the purchase of any beverage at Mon Ami on Bond St.
11.Spend the day reading magazines/books or napping in the spacious and awesome public library.
12.Grab a beer at Southern Cross and enjoy the garden patio for free.
13.Get a free newspaper at Te Papa.
Top 10 Most Overrated in Wellington
1.The zoo. It's cute and small and not worth $18.
2.Drinking on Courteney Place- Wellington's weekend meat market.
3.The Cable Car off Lambton Quay- You spend the majority of the ride under the highway's overpass or in a tunnel, “scenic” it is not.
4.Reading Cinemas on Courteney Pl.- Don't bother when you can go to the historical Embassy or Paramount theatres.
5.Pizza King on Taranaki St.- I feel fairly certain that they just warm up frozen pizza.
6.Matterhorn- It's pricey and pretentious.
7.The weather- It's rainy, it's windy, it's cold and after a few months it's depressing.
8.The Kumara- By far, the worst bar in Wellington, unless you like sticky floors and tweens.
9.Shopping on Lambton Quay- The most expensive rent in all of New Zealand leads to the most expensive shopping in all of New Zealand.
10.The Bungee swing on Taranaki- Lame and verifiably unsafe.
Top 10 Strange & Lovely Things in Wellington
1.Carlucci's Land at 64 Owhiro Bay Pde, Island Bay, - A bizarre, abstract metal sculpture garden located just outside the city.
2.Cuba St. on a weekend night. Grab a coffee at Midnight Espresso and watch the kids let their freak flags fly.
3.Check out the ominous metal tri-pod sculpture on Kent Tce & Courteney Place.
4.Alice's Bar on Forresters Lane- take a trip down the rabbit hole and definitely try the Lobster's Quadrille.
5.Karaoke Night at The Fringe on Cuba St.- dirty, grungy, completely absurd and awesome.
6.Lodge in the City at corner of Vivian & Taranaki come by and meet the craziest in Wellington.
7.Welcome Takeaways on Vivian- Literally a hole in the wall that's open arbitrarily. Greasy, cheap and delicious.
8.New & Used Bookstores all over the city- Find heaps of beautifully strange books.
9.Take a drive around the eerie abandoned army barracks that are now part of Weta Studios.
10.Do the Lord of the Rings Tour of Hobittown- If you are into that sort of thing.
Top 10 Must Do in Wellington
1.Te Papa on Wellington's waterfront.
2.Sweet Mother's Kitchen near corner of Kent Tce, & Courteney Pl.- Two words: Breakfast Burritos.
3.Cuba St. Coffee Shops- Cute, independent, quirky and cool. (Midnight Espresso, Espressoholic and Offbeat Cafe are my personal favorites).
4.Parliament Tour on Molesworth then drinking at Backbencher's afterwards- Your chance to rub shoulder's with government officials, or at least their scary busts bolted to the bar's walls.
5.Civic Square Art Gallery in Civic Square near the library.
6.Grab a $10 jug at the Kiwi Pub.
7.See a play.
8.Take a drive up the hills around Wellington and take in the lovely little seaside city.
9.Red Rocks- Seals!
10.World of Wearable Art- An absolutely spectacular fusion of art, performance and magic.
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