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Dreaming of a cycling holiday in New Zealand but not sure where to get started?

The New Zealand Cycle Trail is a network of off-road cycle ways offering cyclists the chance to experience the very best of New Zealand landscape, culture and world-class hospitality. Cycling through dappled bush, gently bubbling geothermal activity, stunning snow-capped peaks and popular beach and wine trails – a myriad of experience awaits along well-formed cycle paths all around the country.

We are proud to support significant National Events all around New Zealand and this week's blog we feature accommodation suitable for participants in this years National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek, near Hamilton.

If you are interested in accommodation for Fieldays for 2014, we suggest you check out our 2014 options here:

Click here for 2014 Accommodation options for Fieldays at Mystery Creek. 

At Look After Me - NZ's Homestay Network, we're getting into the spirit of Easter in a very special way. Meet 'Sharon' - a typical Kiwi girl trying to book somewhere for Easter.

Here's a song to get us all humming: 

Kiwi’s Easter

[To the tune of Snoopy’s Christmas]

The summer was long, temperatures soared

It was coming up Easter holiday once more

The kiwi thought back to her days in the tent

And called on herself to do it again....

Was the week before Easter, dry as bone

When Kiwi went out in search of a home

For a holiday break, something ‘different’ she thought,

With cheer in her heart, carefully she sought...

Kia Ora! My name is Krystal and I am a publicist for ‘Look After Me Homestay’ as part of my work experience. Recently, I was given an opportunity by Julia Charity to interview our work placement recruits over the course of the work placement programme. To begin, I had the chance to interview Sunil Bishnoi.

Sunil has joined our work placement programme provided by Julia , in the position as a SEO/ Online marketing. Sunil advises Julia on the creation of on-line promotional material (such as designing google adwords campaign, Search Engine Marketing) for our Homestay Network.

We've christened 'The Lady in the Hammock'

Thank you to all our Look After Me hosts, guests and visitors to our site who entered our competition to help name our 'Hammock Girl'.

Many of you voted for our suggestions but we had some great contributions and suggestions. We can now announce that her name is:

Today is Look After Me’s First Birthday and I’m like a kid in a lolly shop...

You’ll never guess what we got for our birthday?

A brand-spanking new, all-the-bells-and-whistles website!

I’m a firm believer in making something a bit special of your birthday, so for me, being in business one whole year was indeed a celebration and I had been looking forward to acknowledging the day. Like any kid on her birthday I leaped out of bed in excitement (really!), dashed to my laptop, and urged the wireless into life......

I love opening my email. No really – I do.

You’re probably wondering why would I say such an outlandish thing?

It’s because many of my emails are from our new hosts who send through their photographs for uploading on to their property profile. So just like a box of chocolates...

Our hosts love looking after people and they’re jolly good at it. I would even go so far as to say that our unique brand of kiwi hospitality is amongst the best in the world. While Look After Me has a core basis of expectations, we leave looking after our guests to the experts.

Recently we invited our hosts to share some of their ‘hosting tips’; some of the little things they do for their guests to make them feel special. Here's what they came up with....

For a website founder, there is nothing more exciting than the hum of new search engines cranking into life for the first time. 

At 6.00 am on Thursday 21 July, 2011, we launched the Look After Me ‘concept’ when V1 of our website went live. Although the Rugby World Cup was not our main focus, we timed the launch of our website 50 days out from the Rugby World Cup.  Rugby World Cup Fever was in full flight with Tamati’s tour around the country in his various themed Roadshows, showcasing the Cup and inviting locals to participate with live filming on Breakfast TV.