Correction visited Lake Rotorua Not Lake Raturreo. (Two different Lake’s)
I did a check and remembered that we (Wife & I) visited the Bath House.
The Bath House opened in 1908 as the Great South Seas Spa, drawing people from around the world to ‘take the cure’ in waters drawn from nearby springs. In its heyday, around seventy thousand baths were given annually, as well as thirty thousand special treatments including massage, mud baths, and electrical therapy. see @ http://www.virtualoceania.net/newzealand/photos/cities/rotorua/bathhouse/
I love Rotorua.
You get used to the odor and they use the steam to heat their homes.
The thing about NZ, for me, is the quakes. We have friends there and have discussed enduring the interminable plane ride just to escape, if necessary. However, our friends (one US ex-pat and his Kiwi wife) keep us informed and NZ tends to go back and forth between what we would call Democrats and outright Marxists. As a tiny island nation, a lot of things are only available as imports. Gasoline is pricey and so are homes. The Maori have control of the coasts and long-time native whites can be totally paranoid about Asians.
Still, it is a lovely place.