Tidal Steps

"Awesome spot on the waterfront, great place for the children to swim and play, playground and toilets nearby"

"Love it, our family go here often when we just want to cool down on a hot day."

"Located in the center of Tauranga's waterfront, the Tidal Steps are a popular attraction for locals and visitors young and old.  It's like an amphitheater, a defined and enclosed space with steps that fold down into Tauranga Harbour from The Strand. You can sit here with your toes dipped into the water while having a coffee or a bite to eat and soaking up Tauranga’s beautiful harbor, or watch children swimming, or teenagers water bombing off the bombing platform at the end of the adjacent pier.  A karakia and poem about Tauranga are carved and painted into the stairs and you can see different parts of these revealed as the tide ebbs and flows."