Ok for the price.....New Zealander's must learn ONE rule in the hospitality business.

Having guests is not for the benefit of employees. One madding feature of the New Zealand Hotel/Motel business is the rule of check out! Generally ALL hotels and motels have a check-out time of 10am (check-in at 2pm).

This rule is only to benefit lazy laidback Kiwi's who's only focus is to depart the scene of work as early as possible.

Notice to owners: Guests pay YOUR wages...........say that manta everyday a hundred times .

We stayed here as part of a tour group. Our room 106 is on the ground floor. The terrace opens out to the parking lot which also happens to be our view. Because of the large panel of glass, it didn't feel very secure. The lock on the door also feels flimsy. Our room has 2 queen beds with plenty of desk space in the room and well lit. There is very limited counter space in the bathroom, otherwise, it's decent. There is nothing near the hotel. The breakfast was ok, the choices not too varied. Our tour group had dinner here and my rib eye was excellent. The salmon was undercooked. We found out later on that that's how New Zealanders eat their salmon, a bit on the rare side. The best part of the hotel was the trampoline by the pool. I used it to work off excess energy.

I don`t know where begin about the poor quality of this hotel. When i arrived the room stunk of cow droppings and the fridge was in the middle of the room which revealed the dirt and dust where it came from. The bench was also dirty (we got a room with a Kitchen) in other words it looked like the cleaners had half done the job and then left. The blinds in the room where also broken and they had no one to repair it so the got one of the kitchen staff to come and fix it, then all was fine until we got to the restaurant there i went to order a drink with the food and i said "i`ll have a beer" she replied
NO i can`t do that so i said "why not" thinking it was not available
and she said "Your not old enough" in a very demeaning voice "yes i am" i said so i asked her how old do you think i am and she stood silently so i asked again how old do you thing i am and i got a reply of i.d. please still in a demeaning voice so i handed it to she saying that i was 19 (18 being the drinking age) so she handed it back to me and walked off without saying anything. A While later she returned placed it down on the table and walked off again without
saying anything and never came near my table again for the rest of the evening. but this was not the end i happened to leave my pillow behind so i rang them and they said they found it which was good but i got a friend who was still there to go pick it up and the receptionist said that he could not get it because after 4 pm it was locked in a room and she did not have a key so i am now without a pillow so all in all it was a terrible stay and would strongly NOT recommend the place

About an 1h30 South West of Christchurch ,a rather unpretentious hotel which offered a very good comfortable and spacious room .Very clean with lovely attentive details in room. We were given a great welcome and had an excellent dinner there too. And a very reasonable price as a cherry on the cake! Most recommended.