Thumbs Up & Thumbs Down

Thumbs up

■ To Ashley Cho and the team; we really appreciate the service you all provide. Thank you from the team at Family and Financial Solutions Trust.

■ To Taupō Council for installing gates at Turangitukua Park entrance. No more hooning at nights.

■ Thank you to the Taupō Council for listening to the concerns of the residents at Summerset and installing a speed bump on Wharewaka Road.

■ To the airport for their new baggage carousel. Beats having to collect your luggage from a trailer outside.

Feels glamorous and metropolitan.

■ To Town Centre Taupō for the wonderful Santa Cave once again - such a wonderful experience for families in Taupō , all of the staff (including Santa!) were wonderful, too. A special thanks to Alice for tirelessly printing the Santa photos, smiling all the way, and for the delivery you made. Thank you for making my day a little bit easier just before Christmas, you are so kind!

Thumbs down

■ To the people young and older who hoon on their four wheelers, motor bikes down at Turangitukua Park when it’s wet or dry; it is digging up grounds. No crash helmets are worn either, a serious accident will happen one day. Also, people who dump their lawn clippings and rubbish under the trees. Take the clippings to the transfer station, the cost is only $6.

■ To the hooligan(s) who vandalised the Tū rangi Police station recently.

■ My partner had a long hard day without a single meal the other night, so I convinced her to get a fast food burger when she finished work at midnight. As she placed her order at the drive-through I literally could hear the arrogant window server (on my phone) giving my partner attitude over the speaker about her order. I recognised her voice as the same person who had, on a previous order, called my partner a fatty over the speaker. So unprofessional.

■ The new Taupō Council building is an eyesore dominating the town centre. How was a structure of this height allowed to proceed when it is out of sync with the surrounding landscape?

■ To the supermarket with the continued lack of baskets. With the prices you are charging, the least I can expect is to be able to use a basket whilst I do my shopping. I had to ask one of your staff yesterday where they were and was told they get stolen by customers which I find hard to believe with your staff collecting them at the self help tills and all your security? I find this to be a complete cop out.

■ Email your thumbs up/thumbs down to news@taupoturangiherald.co.nz, message Taupō & Tūrangi Herald on Facebook or drop into our office, upstairs at 4 Starlight Arcade, Taupō . Messages may be edited or abridged. Thumbs down that refer to easily identifiable people, businesses or private groups won’t be published.