Holiday information 2021/22

Please remember your vaccine pass

Please remember your My Vaccine Pass when visiting most of our facilities and venues.

All users aged over 12 years and three months are now required to use their vaccine pass to enter all swimming pools, the AC Baths café, gym and rockwall, libraries, Taupō Museum, Great Lake Centre, Taupō Events Centre, Owen Delany Park stadium and the number one pitch, Superloo and council offices with public access.

To ensure the community has access to democratic and essential services, the customer service centres, council chamber, landfill and transfer stations will not require a My Vaccine Pass at this stage.

Find out more about council services and facilities under the COVID-19 Protection Framework

Council opening hours over the festive season

If you need to contact the council at any time, you can call 0800 ASK TDC (0800 275 832). This is a 24/7 service.

Please see our Contact Us page for our normal opening hours and additional contact details.

Taupō Customer Service & i-SITE Visitor Information Centre - 30 Tongariro Street

Turangi Customer Service & i-SITE Visitor Information Centre - 1 Ngawaka Place

Mangakino Customer Service Centre - Rangatira Drive

*Please see our Contact Us page for our normal opening hours and additional contact details.

Kerbside collections

Remember it’s a super busy time for our contractors over the holiday period with larger volumes of rubbish and recycling than usual to pick up, especially cardboard!

Extra trucks and staff will be working - you may see two trucks picking up your recycling during the busiest times. However, collections are likely to run later in the day than usual and at times, may extend into the following day so if your rubbish or recycling hasn't been picked up you can leave it out for collection the next morning. Thanks for your patience!

Please have your rubbish and recycling kerbside by 7.30am on the day of collection. Remember, only plastic types 1, 2 and 5 can be recycled - all other plastic goes in the rubbish. Please flatten cardboard boxes and remove lids from washed plastic bottles to help our hardworking contractors.

Check the collection day for your area and find out more about what can be recycled

No changes to collection days

There are no changes to kerbside collection days over the holiday season as Christmas Day and New Year's Day both fall on a Saturday.

Landfill and Transfer Stations

Landfill, resource recovery centres and transfer stations will have normal operating hours except for Christmas Day when all facilities will be closed.

Find out more about our refuse and recycling services.

Taupō District Libraries

All Taupō District Libraries are closed on public holidays and the Monday and Tuesday following public holidays. All libraries close at the earlier time of 3pm on Christmas Eve. See the tables below for a full list of opening hours at each library over the festive season.

Visit our libraries pages for further information, including our normal opening hours and additional contact details.

Taupō Library - Story Place

Turangi Library - 3 Turangi Town Centre

Mangakino Library - 69 Rangatira Drive

*Visit our libraries pages for further information, including our normal opening hours and additional contact details.

Taupō Museum

Taupō Museum is closed on Christmas Day. On Christmas Eve the museum will close at the earlier time of 3pm.

Normal opening hours of 10am to 4.30pm apply on all other days.

Find out more about what's happening at Taupo Museum

Leisure and recreation facilities

AC Baths

The AC Baths will be open every day over the holiday period, except Christmas Day, with slight changes to opening hours on other public holidays. We will also be closing at 2pm on both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

View the opening hours for the AC Baths

Turangi Turtle Pools

The Turangi Turtle Pools will be open every day over the holiday period, except Christmas Day. Note the pools will be closing at the earlier time of 2pm on both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

View the opening hours for the Turtle Pools

Mangakino Community Pool

Swimmers in Mangakino will have to wait a little bit longer before they can cool off in the Mangakino Community Pool this summer – but it will be worth the wait, with water lovers soon to have a newly-painted pool. We anticipate the pool will open to swimmers from New Year’s Day. January opening hours are 12.30pm to 5pm daily, February opening hours will differ. Entry is now free.

Find out more

Fitness Studio

The Fitness Studio will be open every day over the holiday period, except Christmas Day, with slight changes to opening hours on other public holidays. We will also be closing at 2pm on both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

View the opening hours for the Fitness Studio

Indoor Rockwall

The Indoor Rockwall will be open every day over the holiday period, except for the public holidays.

View the Rockwall opening hours

Taupō Events Centre

The Taupō Events Centre will be open every day over the holiday period, except Christmas Day, with slight changes to hours on other public holidays. We will also be closing at 2pm on both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

View the opening hours for the Taupō Events Centre

Alcohol ban areas

We want you to have fun this New Year period, but it's important to do it safely and be responsible.

Over the New Year period from 12 noon December 27 until 7am January 4 there is an alcohol ban which covers Taupō and Turangi Town Centres, all lakefront reserve areas in the Taupō District, and Hipapatua Reserve (Reid's Farm) in Taupō. Please also be aware the Otumuheke Stream bathing area in Spa Thermal Park has a year-round alcohol ban 24/7.

View alcohol ban details and maps

Connector buses

To see festive season timetable details for the Taupō Connector bus service go to the BusIt website.
Also see this Busit update covering Taupō Connector bus services from 5 January 2022.