As soon as we got to Rotorua we headed for the Energy Events Centre to pick up our race numbers and chips for the marathon and 5k events, for the next morning. It was all very organised and people could still register for the marathon up to 9pm that night and up to 9am the next day for the other races. There was the marathon itself plus a marathon walk, a speed walk and 5 and 10k runs and walks. The start and finish was in Government Gardens right next to the old Rotorua spa building, which is now the city's museum.
We'd decided to book a hotel for a couple of nights pre and post marathon so we could be assured of a good night's sleep. We found a place on 'motel mile' - Fenton Street. Our room actually turned out to be a little house - kitchen, lounge (with sofa bed for Liam) , bathroom and private courtyard with hot tub downstairs (you'd be hard pushed to find a place without a hot tub in Rotorua) and a bedroom upstairs for us. Free wifi (yes!) and laundry room a couple of doors down. The other good thing was that it was only a 20 minute walk to where the marathon was starting.
We went and got some food from Pak n Save and had a relaxing evening, watching Dr Who dvds at our own private pasta party.
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