Overview

Hype:

The Opal Hot Springs and Holiday Park operates 5 pools fed by hot springs. Some pools are included with lodging and some must be reserved separately.

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Fees: Admission

Recommended Ages:

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	20-49
	50-69
	70+

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Links: https://www.opalhotsprings.co.nz/

Location

Closest City or Region: Matamata, New Zealand

Coordinates: -37.787423, 175.838662

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November 12, 2022 Trip Report

By Jeremy Dye

Trip Members

Jeremy Dye, Tara Dye, Savannah Dye,

Story

After Rainbow's End, we drove down to our hotel near Hobbiton. It ended up being at a hot spring resort, so they had some fun swimming pools and things that were free for visitors. 

Tara and Savannah swam in the pools while I drove back into town and bought a few groceries and picked up dinner. When I got back to the hotel, I still wasn't over my motion sickness, which ended up being food poisoning, but I didn't know that at the time. I went to bed early while Tara and Savannah ate their Subway and then showered and went to bed and watched a show. 

?What followed was one of the worst nights of my life. I started throwing up at about 12:30 and didn't stop until after sunrise. I approximated 35 times throwing up. It was so bad that even after my stomach was empty, I kept dry heaving and then after that I started throwing up the contents of my intestines in large volumes and it was horrible and disgusting and painful and I thought I was going to die. I woke Tara up at about 5:30 because I couldn't suffer alone any longer. She went to look up doctor options because there was no Wi-Fi at our hotel, but the only options were a long ways away, so I just suffered through it. Luckily by about 6:30, my heavings finally subsided long enough that I could do a few things in between. I was still pretty useless though, so I mostly just slept on the couch while Tara fixed breakfast and got everything packed up.

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