Quotes About Wellington

Here's what visiting media say about Wellington:

“From an out-of-towner’s point of view, there seem few things Wellington doesn’t offer. It hosts an enviable array of top events, has a thriving arts and culture scene, and its inhabitants possess a contagious enthusiasm about the place.”
Aaron Leaman: Waikato Times (New Zealand)

"Sleek and chic, Wellington has the edge of Seattle combined with the surfer vibe of Cornwall."
Sarah Ewing: Glamour (UK)

"From web to fashion design, advertising to art, music to theatre, Wellington has captured the true Kiwi spirit. With this, a sophisticated café culture has thrived, and world class restaurants and funky bars have multiplied"
Yorick Brown: Voyeur Magazine (Australia)

"The car park is the unlikely entrance to Moore Wilson Fresh, an Aladdin’s cave of all the best and freshest food of the Wellington region, which has pretty well every food type you can imagine. That’s Wellington – full of surprises for someone like me who travels on this stomach."
Jonathan Porter: Weekend Australian (Australia)

“Our capital city has everything going for it. Sitting on a beautiful harbour, it has forest-clad hills, a vibrant café scene, award-winning restaurants and night life, plus art, music and cultural festivals clamouring for space in its already packed schedules.”
Trudi Caffell: onHoliday (New Zealand)

"New Zealand is literally the most beautiful place on earth but not many realise that the artistic sensibilities of the Kiwis is turning the city of Wellington a powerhouse of the arts in the Southern Hemisphere"
Sarimah Othman: Going Places Magazine (Malaysian Airlines In-flight Magazine, Pan Regional)

"It might be nicknamed "Wellywood", but New Zealand's capital - the southernmost in the world, incidentally - is more like the antipodal twin of San Francisco. The parallels, in fact, are uncanny: fronting a picturesque bay, it's a city of hills lined with gaily painted Victorians and its own cable car...its residents weekend in the nearby wine country."..."Surprisingly cosmopolitan for a city of only 180,000 people, Wellington has blossomed into New Zealand's cultural capital, a centre for galleries, museums, theatres, performance halls and studios. The city is company, intimate and walkable, its architecture an exuberantly eclectic mishmash of styles both historic and futuristic..." John Flinn: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

“Voted one of the hottest cities in the world in 2004 by Conde Naste Traveller, Wellington has all the trappings of a thriving metropolis while maintaining the charm and ease of a small town.”
Phil Williams: Paperplane (Australia)

“Having a cup of coffee, enjoying the sea breeze, strolling in the city of art and fashion are what Wellington provides and no other cities can rival.”
Ms Sung-Yu Tsai: Liberty Times (Taiwan)

"Wellington is to Auckland what Melbourne is to Sydney, and what San Francisco is to Los Angeles. It has character instead of homogeneity; it is compact, not sprawling; it is quietly confident, not brash and in-your-face...Wellington is a diverse and sophisticated place that is too often left off the tourist trail." 
Anna Fifield: Financial Times (UK)

"An exciting downtown shopping experience is only minutes away from a peaceful walk through native bush or along a golden sand beach."
Inder Raj Ahluwalia: Business fe Traveller (India) 

"New Zealand's capital is a small, friendly city with a big-city food culture, where you're never far from fabulous restaurants, fantastic coffee and creative cocktails." Sarah Nicholson: ABC Delicious (Australia)

“You’ll be seduced by the sheer natural physical beauty of Wellington’s harbour, her terrace upon terrace of Victorian, San Francisco-style wooden and glass homes and, not least, the town planning synergies that have so seamlessly blended the old with the new.”
Paul Daley: Australian Gourmet Traveller