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A Kiwi, two Scots, an American and an Englishwoman…

Due to the mass five staff exit … we had to take on a couple of staff to … plug the holes if you will … first is our new resident Kiwi Ms Kate who comes from the other Island (thats the North Island for those who don’t know) .. and from out West no [...]

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hey … where did all the swing staff go??

Its the season of swing staff take stage exit right …  we recently had an almost unheard of five staff … thats right FIVE staff leave all at once!!  Maybe its the cattle prodding that they don’t like …. hmmmm … not sure …. Skye, Sam, Will, Chrissie and the big guy Sarge (who left [...]

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Do You Give A Toss For The Albatross

It is Swing love time …. and we do like to give … last year round about this time we made a gigantic effort to raise as much money as possible for Child Cancer and we had a lot of fun doing it.  Now its the turn of the big giant bird …. The Albatross [...]

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Crazy folk ….

Well … crazy folk … we just seem to attract them out here …. and once again we seem to have a few nutters out there bent on turning up in the weird and wonderful outfits …. especially the guy who turned up in the monkey outfit ….. just wrong …. oh …. and we [...]

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Hey hey …. It’s our birthday!

Well after being kept fairly busy in December with successfully throwing people off cliffs, getting them back in one piece and helping Santa with deliveries to all the good little boys and girls out there …. we almost nearly but not quite forgot about our birthday! Once again, as we always do come Birthday time [...]

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We ARE the Best Experience In NZ – it is official!!

Queenstown ruled the roost at this year’s Golden Backpack Awards, Australia and New Zealand’s only dedicated awards program for the independent travel sector. At the awards, run by TNT Magazine, TNT Managing Director Ian Wakeling paid tribute to New Zealand Tourism and particularly how important it is within the backpacking industry. TNT is the most [...]

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Warning: Another Awards Ceremony

Lucky us we were finalists in the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards 2007.  Whew!  That was a mouthful! On the night it involved a lot of drinking and a lot of eating very fine food.  Obviously it was hard to get the staff to agree to go but we managed to get a [...]

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Barking …

Some think we are … barking that is … barking mad …. but we just like to think of it as being unique.  When a certain company not so long ago trashed our nice new shop with mounds and mounds of pine smelling toilet paper (we were actually just quietly … quite impressed … but [...]

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New Newbie!!

Yes, not content with staff we have … we decided we needed more.  Young Bex has joined the crazy swing team, she came highly decorated …. so much so we just couldn’t resist recruiting her. Why with titles such as ‘World Bar Air Guitar Champion 2007′, ‘Rose Of Tralee 2006′ (read Best Irish Chick in [...]

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Is it a bird?? A plane or a smurf???

We see some strange stuff here … on a daily level actually …. and like a lot of you guys out there can’t resist squeezing ourselves into lycra ….. Imagine our excitement (just imagine it) when Spider Man himself walked through our shop doors … well we just sat besides ourselves …. we couldn’t believe [...]

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