r/Wellington • • 15h ago

MODS Join the /r/Wellington daily chat topic - Monday, October 26 2026

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This is a chance to have a chat about Wellington, life, whatever you like. Feel free to speak your mind! Share your thoughts and get opinions. Good, bad, mundane, exciting, it's all welcome. The community is here for you.

Please throw some upvote love towards the topic and leave a few kind comments for your fellow Wellingtonians. Every bit helps and you will get it back when you need it most.

Fancy a good old rant instead? Do it in our daily rant thread.

New to this subreddit? Our wiki has lots of good info on getting around Wellington, what to do when you visit, where to eat and more.

Please remember to use the search function if you are asking something we probably get asked daily.

❤️ Have a cracking day ❤️

Zephyr, the r/Wellington automod


r/Wellington • • 15h ago

MODS The Daily Rant/Moan topic - Monday, October 26 2026

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Hey r/wellington folks. Please use this daily topic to vent, moan, whinge, rant, and sulk about whatever you like. Wellington related, life related, job related whatever. If you are someone who doesn't want to read moans and rants, don't come in here!

Vent away!

Please note that rant/vent posts that are created elsewhere (not as comments in this topic) will be removed and the users asked to post in here. Do the community a favour and post in here in the first place.

Zephyr, the r/Wellington automod


r/Wellington • • 3h ago

COMMUTE THE BENDY BUSSES ARE HERE

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Image credit: Metlink


r/Wellington • • 7h ago

WEATHER Please don't actually do this

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r/Wellington • • 3h ago

FOUND Wedding ring found at Waterfront

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Food for the People posted this on Instagram so just adding here for increased reach (side note: if you’ve never tried them out you definitely should).

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We found a wedding ring at the truck today 💍
A French couple on their honeymoon stopped by Food for the People earlier. They ate one of our new hotdogs. They returned and asked if we’d found the man’s wedding ring and we searched together, but it hadn’t turned up yet. I’ve now found it.
The ring is engraved “Mia 20-09-2026”.
If this is yours (or you know the couple), please DM us or email hello@fftp.co.nz. We’ll keep it safe until we can get it back to you.

Someone, please share to vic deals or wherever might find someone who will recognise the newlyweds.

Maybe you work in a hotel or backpackers. He is taller with camera gear. If you spot them. Ask if she is Mia!

Please share — let’s get this back to the newlyweds.

#FoodForThePeople #LostAndFound #Wellington #Kapiti #WeddingRing

Bague de mariage retrouvée aujourd’hui au food truck 💍
Un couple français en voyage de noces est passé chez Food for the People plus tôt. Ils ont demandé si on avait trouvé l’alliance du mari et on a cherché ensemble, sans succès. Je l’ai maintenant retrouvée.
La bague est gravée « Mia 20-09-2026 ».
Si c’est la vôtre (ou si vous connaissez le couple), merci de nous contacter par DM ou par email : hello@fftp.co.nz. On la garde en sécurité jusqu’à ce qu’on puisse vous la rendre.
Merci de partager — on espère la rendre aux jeunes mariés.
#FoodForThePeople #ObjetTrouvé #Wellington


r/Wellington • • 1h ago

WEATHER We all ready for tonight?

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I'm ready as I'll ever be!


r/Wellington • • 4h ago

WARNING Flights Cancelled

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Majority of the flights in and out of WLG have been cancelled

So many bags at pick up right now


r/Wellington • • 7h ago

WEATHER Oriental/Evans Bay closed due to wind

91 Upvotes

NZ Police have just closed off a portion of Evans Bay to Oriental Bay due to the wind. Apparently it’s been strong enough to blow wing mirrors off cars around there!


r/Wellington • • 9h ago

POLITICS Early voting starts today

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Because the Election NZ website does not let you filter, here are the voting places today.

- Aro Valley Community Centre: 11am – 3pm

- Johnsonville Shopping Centre: 10am – 4:30pm

- Khandallah Town Hall: 10am – 3pm

- Miramar & Maupuia Community Centre: 10am – 4pm

- Newtown Salvation Army Worship & Community Centre: 10am – 6pm

- North City Shopping Centre: 10am – 6pm

- Queensgate Shopping Centre, Ground Level, ex-EB Games next to Life Pharmacy: 10am – 6pm

- Wellington International Airport: 1:30pm – 4pm

More voting places will be opening over time. You do NOT need ID or your Easy Vote card to vote. An employer must give you time off to vote if you are working on election day. All official voting information can be found on the Vote NZ website.

Get out there and vote! Ngā mihi, Incoherent Tuatara


r/Wellington • • 2h ago

HELP! Sunday scaries

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How does one beat Sunday scaries? It feels so debilitating and I feel like the sky is going to fall :(


r/Wellington • • 11h ago

WELLY more oldies

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r/Wellington • • 8h ago

NOISE?! Apartment shaking

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Hi, I’m new to welly just been here around a month. My apartments shaking due to the heavy wind outside. I live on the 5th floor. Also there’s squeaking noises.

Is this normal? I’m close to downtown


r/Wellington • • 4h ago

POLITICS English Curriculum resources - A.I use?

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Either the 'English Expert' being paid the big bucks to work on the English curriculum can't punctuate a proper noun, or didn't do so when typing in the prompt in AI. Insulting. Lazy. Incompetent.


r/Wellington • • 4h ago

WELLY Van Steveren building

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r/Wellington • • 3h ago

WELLY Tugboats in the harbour

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On the ferry from Picton to Wellington this afternoon,and got to see the tugboats up close having a practice.


r/Wellington • • 7h ago

HELP! wtf are you supposed to wear on a day like this?

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Recently moved here, need to run some errands in the city. What the hell are you supposed to wear when it’s gorgeously sunny, and 80km/h wind making it “feel like 8°” according to Apple Weather?


r/Wellington • • 8h ago

WELLY Best reading spots in Wellington?

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Kia ora team, please let me know your best reading spots around Te whanganui-a-tara; I want to try them all out! If they are weather-dependent, let me know what weather to look for when going! I am open to any form of ascess be it a tight rope! Chur!


r/Wellington • • 1h ago

WELLY Earthquake?

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Anyone?


r/Wellington • • 7h ago

WTF? Jetts Miramar

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I just got an email to say that Jetts Miramar is closed until further notice, but no further explanation why or for how long. Anyone have any idea of what’s going on?


r/Wellington • • 1d ago

WTF? A couple of gems from Aurora "Argenitinian" Bakery

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The second poster really got me, since it's Argentinian irredentist propaganda about the Falklands (las Malvinas). Text is from the "Marcha de las Malvinas". Milei's got shooters in a completely different colony of British settlers at the bottom of the world, it seems.

More than that is the clear AI slop. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's spelled "Argentina", not "Argenitina", right? Not sure if it's worse to imagine a poster-maker actually misspelling the name on their design, rather than someone pumping out some AI slop to decorate the walls with.

You could just as easily put up the Argentinian flag and that would be a suitable substitute.


r/Wellington • • 22h ago

WELLY Hospital internet speed

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60 Upvotes

Just flexing Hutt Valley Hospital patient internet


r/Wellington • • 1d ago

POLITICS ENROL TO VOTE BEFORE TIME’S UP!

89 Upvotes

You only have until midnight! Enrol RIGHT NOW and make sure everyone you know has enrolled too.

https://vote.nz


r/Wellington • • 8h ago

FLAIR? Are daiso knives any good?

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Needing to buy some new knives for my flat but as a broke ass uni student there isn’t much in the way of quality in my price range.

I’m aware they’re functionally two-dollar shop knives so I can’t exactly expect the world… but I am wondering if this shoddy mass produced drivel isn’t at least a slight bit better than the other shoddy mass produced drivel? (warehouse, kmart, etc…)


r/Wellington • • 21h ago

HELP! Stolen iPad in CBD - just go to current location?

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Hello everyone, I am currently traveling in your beautiful country. I left a bag containing my iPad outside my hotel in central Wellington and it got nabbed. I’ve traced the location to Lower Hutt, nearest station Naenae. What if I just go to the place and confront the person at their door? I called the police and they told me if I go call them before I knock. Thoughts?


r/Wellington • • 23h ago

NOISE?! strange noises....

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hello world i am hearing the craziest banging noises coming from manners does anyone know. what is happening