John Lewis

As a dozen cruise ships pull in to Otago Harbour with up to 22,100 passengers over the next week, Dunedin hospitality businesses will be doing their best to make the city look like it's not a "ghost town".

While the forecast looks as if Christmas Day and Boxing Day are going to be wet and dreary in the South, MetService says it is still too early for festive sun-loving residents to get despondent.