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Rothesay Bay

Rothesay Bay is a small suburb in Auckland's East Coast Bays region.

Rothesay Bay
Rothesay Bay · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Rothesay Bay is a small suburb in Auckland's East Coast Bays region. The suburb is roughly the same size as Murrays Bay, the suburb to the immediate south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rothesay Bay

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Albany Lakes Civic Park

    Albany Lakes Reserve is a public park located in Albany, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland. It is adjacent to the Westfield Albany shopping mall, in the centre of the commercial area.

    3.8 km · Public park in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    City Impact Church New Zealand

    City Impact Church is a pentecostal church based in Auckland, New Zealand. It operates a network of satellite churches across New Zealand, and in Canada, India, Mexico, the Philippines, and Tonga.

    2.6 km · church building in New Zealand · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Westfield Albany

    Westfield Albany is a shopping centre in the Auckland suburb of Albany, New Zealand, opposite the Albany Lakes Civic Park. It is majority owned by Scentre Group with the remainder owned by the Singapore Government's GIC. Until 2014 it was wholly owned by Scentre Group, which was formerly part of Westfield Group.

    3.8 km · shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Rothesay Bay

Airports
Auckland (AKL), 33 km
  • Wellington → Rothesay Bay
    507 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · NZ$180–280
  • Christchurch → Rothesay Bay
    778 km · quickest by air, 5h 42m · NZ$220–340
  • Queenstown → Rothesay Bay
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rothesay Bay

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rothesay Bay. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inInformation at Auckland Transport (AT) public transport website A short ferry ride away from downtown Auckland.

From Wikivoyage: Auckland/North Shore (New Zealand), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,054 km
  2. 02
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    2,418 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    2,439 km
  4. 04
    AitutakiCK

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    3,179 km
  5. 05
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,344 km

If you know how people move in Rothesay Bay – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Rothesay Bay

Rothesay Bay is 14 km from Auckland, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Browns Baysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand1 km
  • Campbells Baysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.2 km
  • Torbaysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand2.7 km
  • Waiakesuburb of Auckland, New Zealand1.6 km
  • Sunnynooksuburb of Auckland, New Zealand3.8 km
  • Murrays Baysuburb of Auckland, New Zealand1.2 km