The Honeymoon Pool (Te Kiri O Hine Kai Stream)

my rating of 10 is because of its memories for me. my father, mother, sister and i went there in the 1950s. it was off the road along a bush track and such a beautiful place back then. it was so hot my father and sister couldn’t get in. i managed for a bit but my mother was floating around,…

I used to visit this pool in the 1950s as a kid and in the 1960s as a teenager.Wonderful memories.It was no more than a big concrete pool with a natural hot stream in. It still exists but out of bounds. It is now part of the wairakei terraces tourist park

Please watch this space, the (Honeymoon Pool) has been restored but it is not for public bathing. However hot thermal pools have been created down stream from here and once again the hot thermal water that flowed many years ago and healed many a body and heart, will be available for public bathing (for 14 years and over). our website…

I would like to revisit the pool after 45 years..I went there in the 60’s with my old school friend Sandra McLean who lived in Taupo…it was a magical place then and must be even better now it’s been restored. Can anyone tell me who to contact re permission to visit the pool…I am in Taupo the whole of the…

A team from the Wairakei Primary School investigated the history in 2003. They have made a great report – Read it here. I recall the same as Denise in 1964! Hi Denise!

If its the one I visited many times as a wild teenager (and the location looks spot on) in 1964, called the Honeymoon back then, it was accessed through a track at the rear of a motor camp. Someone had dammed it at the top and about 20 feet below, with the really hot water cascading over each rim. It…