Attractions

Check out New Zealand's quirkiest theme park. Located in Coromandel Town, The Waterworks is the ultimate Kiwi experience for people of all ages. As well as the array of water powered inventions to look at, play on, or interact with, The Waterworks has a generous children's playground area perfect for picnics, an onsite café, free use of BBQs and a swimming hole to cool off in during the hot summer months.

https://thewaterworks.co.nz/

http://coromandelboatcharters.com/Coromandel is famous for its fishing hot-spots. Experience some of the best snapper fishing in New Zealand. Coromandel Town caters for charter boat and kayak fishing. Many people also surf cast off the rocks and jetties or just take a leisurely kayak in the harbour and inshore islands. There are many ramps for private boats to launch from or we can arrange a charter boat fishing experience for you.

https://www.thecoromandel.com/towns/coromandel-town/activities/all-activities/ Other Coromandel Town activities include:

Coromandel Coastal Walkway - Visit website

• Coromandel Museum
• Hauraki House Gallery
• Coromandel Craft Trail
• Kayak Fishing and Hire
• 309 Road Kauri Walk and Waterfalls
• Kauri Tree, Kauri Block and Harray Track Walks
• Golf, tennis, bowls

Coromandel Town also has a great selection of annual events:

• Coromandel Annual Keltic Fair – 2 January - Visit website
• Classy Chicks Fishing Competition - March
• Kings of the Coromandel Fishing Competition – April
• Coromandel Arts Tour – April
• Illume Lighting Festival – July
• The Bounty Hunter Fishing Competition – July
• Colville Connection Mountain Bike Race – October
• K2 Road Cycle Race – October
• The Great Cranleigh Kauri Run – November

Coromandel Town is spoilt for choice with its great selection of restaurants, hotels, cafés and takeaways providing local grown green lipped mussels, oysters and fresh fish among the many options.

Restaurants include The Pepper Tree, Success Café, Umu Café, Mussell Kitchen, Laan Ya Mo Thai Restaurant, Coromandel Hotel, Star & Garter Hotel and the Admirals Arms Hotel.

Coromandel Colonial Cottages Motel is a great place to base yourself with a view to visiting Hot Water Beach, Cathedral Cove, New Chums Beach, Rapuara Water Gardens, the Thames Coast Butterfly Gardens and the unspoilt scenery and breathtaking beaches on the Peninsula.

https://dcrail.nz/corozip/ 

Glide through the forest on this unique zipline canopy tour and experience Coromandel's breath-taking native forest from all levels, as you fly above the trees and walk beneath the ferns.

Our knowledgeable guides will lead you on an unforgettable journey, to learn about Driving Creek’s transformation from kauri logging, goldmining and pastural farming, into a lush hand planted native forest, a haven for regenerating kauri trees and kiwi.

Two of our expert guides will greet and outfit you with the safety equipment you will need for the journey. A spectacular 18 minute train ride will take you up New Zealand’s only mountain railway to the start of your Ziplining experience. Your two friendly guides will then lead you along eight ziplines, which span through trees and across gullies and streams, to experience New Zealand’s native trees and birds, including our largest tree species, the Kauri.

Coromandel Zipline Tours is a fully charitable company with all the profits from your tour going towards restoring and preserving New Zealand’s native forests and supporting the New Zealand clay arts.

http://www.musselkitchen.co.nz/mussel-kitchen.html Coromandel Mussel Kitchen is unique in that we collect, cultivate, harvest, cook and serve to you, our own Green Lipped Mussels. Guaranteeing freshness that is full of flavour and quality.

Coromandel Mussel Kitchen is a place where you can come along and enjoy Coromandel’s freshest green lipped mussels, watch some hand made value added products being prepared and buy some to take away with you.

We grow most of our herbs and fresh salad items onsite, as well as the hops we use for the MK Brewing Co.

Catch the Ferry from Auckland to Coromandel Town. For a timetable, information and prices visit:https://www.fullers.co.nz/destinations/coromandel/

The ferry arrives into Hannafords Wharf, where a complimentary shuttle service meets each sailing and transports visitors to the heart of Coromandel Town - about a 20-minute journey. The shuttle bus also returns to the wharf, departing Coromandel Town 30 minutes before each return sailing. In Coromandel Town, the shuttle stop is located at the Samuel James Reserve car park.