Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
station can assist with all manner of advice and bookings, including those for DOC huts
and walks. See also
www.westcoastnz.com
.
Grey Base Hospital
(
03-768 0499; High St)
Post Office
(36 Tainui St)
Getting There & Around
Combined with the i-SITE in the railway station, the
West Coast Travel Centre
(
03-768 7080;
www.westcoasttravel.co.nz
; Railway Station, 164 Mackay St;
9am-5pm Mon-Fri,
10am-4pm Sat & Sun;
)
books local and national transport and offers luggage storage.
BUS
All buses stop outside the railway station.
hours) and Nelson (six hours), and south to Franz Josef Glacier (3½ hours).
Naked Bus
(
www.nakedbus.com
)
runs the same route three days a week. Both companies offer connec-
tions to destinations further afield.
on its daily Nelson to Franz Josef service (and onward to Queenstown), as well as run-
ning across Arthur's Pass to Christchurch.
West Coast Shuttle
( 03-768 0028, 0274 927
000;
www.westcoastshuttle.co.nz
)
also runs a daily service between Greymouth and Christ-
church.
CAR
Several car-hire company desks are located within the railway station. Local companies
include
Alpine West
(
03-768 4002, 0800 257 736;
www.alpinerentals.co.nz
;
11 Shelley St)
and
NZ Rent-a-Car
(
03-768 0379;
www.nzrentacar.co.nz
;
170 Tainui St)
.
TAXI
Greymouth Taxis
(
03-768 7078)
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Blackball
Around 25km upriver of Greymouth sits the ramshackle town of Blackball - established
in 1866 to service gold diggers; coal mining kicked in between 1890 and 1964. The Na-
