Top 10 Things to do Good for a Rainy Day in Nelson, South Island

Kia Ora / Hi, Experience all the flavours of Nelson. Enjoy wine, art,scenic, golf and Maori tours with the enthusiastic and experienced Bay Tours Nelson team. Let us give you the 'Perfect day out!'

Enjoy a memorable day visiting and tasting wines at the cellar doors of premium Nelson & Marlborough wineries. Many are family-run boutique operations. Have lunch in superb vineyard settings at Rock Ferry & Waimea Est. Marlborough tours are from Nelson only and return or Picton ferry - Nelson. Time then to tell Rod about yourself and fav. wines & regions.

Gourmet Guided Walks on the Heaphy Track and in the Nelson Lakes and Abel Tasman National Parks

We specialise in wine tours and are genuine local craft beer enthusiasts based right here in sunny Nelson. Our tours take us as far away as Marlborough or you can explore Nelson Tasman in an easy fun filled afternoon. Our clients from around the world continue to stay in touch with us via social media and some are planning to come back for another visit. Going into our 13th year, we are very proud to be the company who took the risk to redefine the Nelson tour experience, raising the bar to produce a fun, flexible, relaxed and personalised style tour.

Visit the home of New Zealand's best loved peanut butter. Smell our freshly roasted nuts as they tumble out of the roaster and make their way to The Peanut Squasher. See Pic's squirting into a jar that wends its way along rattling conveyors to the capping machines that automatically place and tighten Pic's famous star lids, to the labeller, a hi tech licker and placer that wraps the brown paper label around the jar. Watch as our team of white clad peanut butter makers tweak and nurse the gleaming stainless machines into making the world's finest peanut butter, load it into boxes, then wrap it on to pallets to be sent around NZ and around the world. And there's a very good cafe right in the building. Tours are at 10.00am, 11.30am and 1.30pm and the shop is open 8.00 to 4.00, and we are always happy to talk peanuts.

A boutique styled day spa, devoted to wellbeing and conveniently located within walking distance of the city center. We offer a range of beauty treatments and services to suit your beauty needs in a modern and serene environment.

Professional, Friendly Qualified Beauty and Skin therapists in the heart of Nelson City. Offering a wide range of beauty, skin and body treatments with beautiful products from Pure Fiji, Ultraceuticals, Sothys, Jane Iredale, Environ, Sunescape tanning products and Revitalash. Located in a gorgeous white bungalow with tastefully decorated rooms with the option to relax even further in our specially designed relaxation lounge.

Wall To Wall Art Nelson (formerly known as Art@203 Gallery) is a light, bright, vibrant and colourful gallery in central Nelson run by a collective of 12 passionate local artists, together with selected guests, offering a huge variety of amazing artworks, art cards, prints and gifts.

Frock & Soul is a Modern Vintage Clothing store. We sell modern clothes with a vintage twist. Our clothes are funky, fun and functional, they flatter the feminine form and add a sense of fun into the everyday. Shop the decades for beautiful clothing and gifts. We are open 9.30 to 5 p.m Monday to Saturday 9.30 to 3 pm.

People and Place Tours – the people, the land and their shared stories. Every place on earth has been transformed by its human stories. On People and Place Tours you will hear stories from a remote region of the planet - one which joined the human drama only very recently. Learn how the ideas, events and general madness of the wider world have influenced this small, secluded place in the southern Pacific Ocean and, in turn, how the people of Nelson / Tasman have had their impact on the wider world (you will probably be surprised by how much). You’ll travel in a comfortable van in a small group (max. 4 people). The trip lasts about 4 hours which includes a half hour stop for a coffee and / or a wander around the craft shops of the seaside village of Mapua.