Hobbiton - North Island

The sign into Hobbiton.  You park at the gift shop where you buy your pass and then take a bus up to Hobbiton.  The owners of the land that was used for Hobbiton became partners with the movie studio and gets a percentage of the profits.

One of the road signs.

 

Bilbo's home.  There is no interior only the outside was used in the movie's.  The interior scenes were done on the movie sets.

 

 This is the party tree.

 

Picture of a couple of the Hobbiton dwellings.

 

 

Another Hobbit dwelling...lots of flowers...a number of staff are working on the homes and yards each day.

 

 

Beautiful flowers and gardens are around each dwelling.

 

 

This is down by the pond just before you get to the pub.

 

This is inside the pub. They give you a free drink at the end of the tour.  You can have either Bundaberg Ginger Beer (non alcoholic), cider or beer (both contain alcohol).   Mom didn't hear that part and ordered a cider...she had a sip and shuddered and asked me to take a sip...right off I knew what it was but mom wasn't sure, she thought that it might have gone bad, needless to say she had the rest of my Ginger Beer (I like Ginger Beer...oh well).

This is a wood sculpture of Smaug inside the pub.