This is by far my favourite thing I’ve done in Rotorua from all of my visits. Prepare yourself for some beautiful views of the town and Lake Rotorua on the scenic gondola ride to the top. Me and my friends booked a combo ticket for the gondola ride and 4 rides on the luge. Imagine real life mario cart where you race your friends down the track. Now imagine that with terrential downpour of rain. That’s what we did. It was so much fun and I highly recommend for anyone visiting Rotorua.
We did our first couple of luge rides while it was still dry or only raining a little. The last one however I couldn’t see a thing because the rain was so heavy. The rain actually only made it all the more fun though. There was lots of laughs, people falling off their luge carts and overtaking to get to the finish line first. There are three different tracks – although the advanced track was closed during our visit due to the heavy rain. We rode on the intermediate and scenic track through the Redwoods Forest.
There are plenty of other things to do too if the luge isn’t your thing, including: ziplining, skyswing and mountain biking. They even have a winery at the top!
Picture below of me and my friends all soaked from the rain but still smiling.