Third night while cycling the rail trail. Old but comfortable and clean. Lunch and dinner - good food. Disappointed with continental breakfast, would have expected more of a choice with fruit instead of just one variety. More

The Ranfuly Lion Hotel provides poor backpacker accomodation at hotel prices. We left Ranfurly feeling exhausted, cheated and generally very unhappy. If only we had known before booking, we would have cycled right on by. The building is old and every movement and sound is amplified and travels through the building. As a result we spent the night listening to... More

This is the second of two hotels we stayed in while biking the Central Otago Rail Trail. Both were typical country hotels (the other was the Omakau Commercial) and both were perfectly adequate for a family that just finished biking 40 miles over railroad ballast and gravel, but this was the nicer of the two. The owner, who is also... More