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Unruly tourists: Members remain in Auckland city despite visiting the International Airport

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The unruly British tourists who have caused a storm up and down New Zealand have been spotted at Auckland Airport and around the CBD today.

Faster than you can say "unruly tourists", the remaining members of the infamous family took off in downtown Auckland.

Their bashed up and grubby Honda Odyssey had been parked on Shortland St all afternoon until the oldest man returned around 4.45pm.

Rejecting offers to talk to a reporter on the scene by blankly ignoring them, the patriarch fired up the van and drove around the corner into Queen St.

Other members of the family including "John Johnson", or Joe Doran according to an unofficial family spokesperson, and a woman got in the van near Vulcan Lane.

This morning members of the family were spotted at Auckland Airport with luggage and were expected to leave on an international flight this afternoon.

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Four of the group were seen in the vehicle bay outside the international terminal but drove off when approached by the Herald.

Joe Doran, known as John Johnson, hides his face. Photo / NZME
Joe Doran, known as John Johnson, hides his face. Photo / NZME

The same vehicle was parked in a loading zone on Shortland St for the afternoon and even notched up a parking ticket for overstaying the 5-minute limit.

The true identities of the family also came to light today.

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The eldest member of the group, the Daily Mail Australia reports, is 55-year-old grandmother Barbara Doran.

And despite being known around New Zealand as "John Johnson", the unofficial spokesman for the family is, in fact, named Joe Doran.

He's married to Miley Doran and the pair reportedly have lived in various caravan parks around the East Midlands of the UK.

Barbara Doran told the Daily Mail she is too scared to sleep at night and that the family believe they are being "tortured" by the public.

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The family - the so-called "holidaymakers from hell" - have made headlines around the world since after leaving rubbish on Takapuna Beach and abusing a local woman.

The group also were accused of leaving restaurants with unpaid bills and one member of the unruly clan pleaded guilty to stealing from an Auckland service station.

Over the weekend they were accused of leaving a Kiwi motel "stinking of kid's poo".

"I'm very, very frightened, honestly,' Barbara Doran told Daily Mail Australia.

"I'm not going to go and get food without paying for it. I'm not going to put myself that low.

PATH OF CARNAGE

The travellers have made headlines around the world since a video emerged of rubbish being strewn on a Takapuna Beach reserve. Bystanders asked the group to tidy the mess but were abused and threatened.

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It has since emerged members of the group arrived in New Zealand on December 29. There have been several accounts of members refusing to pay for food or services, hectoring hospitality staff and claiming their food had been contaminated by ants or hair.

Last Wednesday, a 26-year-old female member of the group pleaded guilty in the Hamilton District Court to stealing energy drinks, a rope and sunglasses from an Auckland service station on two separate occasions.

The court heard Tina Maria Cash stole a can of Red Bull from a Caltex service station at Albany on December 31.

On January 3, Cash allegedly returned to the Caltex service station with her children and stole more Red Bull, rope and sunglasses valued at $50.

Last Tuesday the family was trespassed from Burger King Te Rapa after the family walked through the drive-through.

They had been at the restaurant earlier in the day causing a nuisance and complaining about, and asking for free food.

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It is understood they claimed to have found hair in the food and were refunded more than $30.

On the weekend the "holidaymakers from hell" left a bomb of rubbish in a Levin hotel with cleaners having to spend hours to get the accommodation back up to scratch.

A spokesperson for the motel told Daily Mail Australia there were cigarette butts scattered on the ground, empty red bull cans thrown around the room and towels bunched up in the shower.

The cleaner also revealed the room was "stinking of poo".

The cleaner said the room was "really messy, and it smelt like kid's poo".

"I had to open all the windows, and I told my boss to leave them open as well as the door, so it could air out."

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According to the motel, spaghetti was found around the bed while cans and bottles of toiletry items were found dumped on the shower floor.

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