Kiwi Ingenuity – make a cool sunlounger out of a bath.
This is, as most people know, a very “outdoorsy” country. Well, I’m not one for tramping round the forests and lakes thanks, but I do spend much more time outdoors than I did back in the UK.
I’ve spent ages looking for some sunloungers to go round the pool, that don’t cost a small fortune. I managed to find one last year in the sales but it still cost over $200, and it’s pretty basic. Most of the ones I looked at and liked were well over $500 each.
So what do you do? You hit Trade Me!
Where I found this incredible idea for a sun lounger – made out of the same materials that you make baths with. 
These are made by Classic Baths in Taupo.
SO, we ordered some, and toddled off to Taupo to pick them up in a Friends MPV. (We were going to hire a van, but a local company claiming on the internet that their prices were from $60+ daily wanted to charge a whopping $300+ – so I told ‘em how unimpressed I was!)
Well, it’s a good 5-hour drive to Taupo, and then you have to get back – so It needed to be worth it. And as we headed over the Desert Road – a not-quite-desert-like-torrential downpour started. It didn’t stop till we got to Taupo.
After we collected the loungers (for reference – you could fit 6 in the back of an MPV quite nicely), we headed back, and stopped near the shores of Lake Taupo at a small beach picnic spot. We opened the back of the van, and had it open to the lake, and then gave the Loungers a bit of a try out. And I can happily report that they are very comfortable. I actually managed to curl up in one and fall asleep.
The loungers retail at $395 each, and I have to say – they are well worth the money. They were also worth the 12 hours it took us in the end to pick them up and bring them home. I drank a huge amount of coffee to keep going I can tell you.
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