Highly recommended. The room is small but has high ceiling. So it doesn't suffocate you. It is old fashioned but has style. The management owns the millennium hotel next door so the housekeeping etc have a good standard. Also we are told we have access to the pool in the Millenium hotel. We paid $260NZD for Wednesday and Thursday.

Oasis has a cute 60s style, tastefully updated with all the mod-cons. It has gorgeous lakefront rooms (with flexible rates when it's not too busy) and other rooms facing the pool which look nice too and have even nicer decor than the lakefront rooms with new showers and granite benchtops. Unfortunately the motel is between State Highway 1 and the lake so the rooms which are not lakefront could be noisy. Ours wasn't at all though.

Oasis has a private spa you can book, an outdoor yearround heated pool, a tennis court, a billiard room, and you are steps away from the lake. The Oasis adjoins the Millenium/Manuel Hotel and you can use their facilities too.

We stayed here for only one night in a lake front unit, it cost $145 for four of us. The unit wasn't very large but adequate and right on the lake edge. When you stay at the oasis you also have access to the facilities next door at Manuels Millenium next door which was great. Oasis also has a heated pool, spa and games room which was great for our teenage boys. It wasn't too far out of town and I would stay again. The units are older, quite 70's style but have been refurbished.

accom in nz is usually a bit hmmm. we've stayed at many taupo hotels and this was by far our fave even tho its a motel by definition. a small capsule community, chilled out groovy. quiet. we paid 175 - excellent value compared to others. location good. rooms more france in size than usa but we didnt mind - you dont stay here to hide in your room! only complaint was bed a bit soft. thought decor ok and i am generally annoyingly picky in this department - its not meant to be 7 star. will stay again and sorry we didnt find it sooner.