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Hotels The most important thing for visitors to remember about hotels in New Zealand is that, being in the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons are reversed. It is therefore advisable to book ahead during the Christmas period, as this is the main summer and school holiday season. Cheaper room rates may be available on the day, although some hotels are likely to be full. The prices quoted below are the starting prices for double rooms. Prices include GST (Goods and Services Tax), currently standing at 12.5%, and exclude breakfast, unless otherwise stated. Business Barrycourt Suites, Hotel and Conference Centre This Best Western Hotel is a large white block house of a building with bright blue balconies and is situated in 1.2 hectares (three acres) of glorious greenery and trees, providing the ideal setting in which to work and play. There are 67 suites with a sunny aspect, 40 well-equipped rooms and seven function rooms at guests’ disposal, as well as free parking and splendid views of the Waitemata Harbour and the city. Within the conference rooms is a 440cm (170-inch) screen for video and other visual presentations, conference telephones, most forms of presentation technology, pure power points for computers, function bars and catering staff to deal with any requests. 10-20 Gladstone Road, Parnell Tel: (09) 303 3789. Fax: (09) 377 3309. E-mail: barrycourt@xtra.co.nz Website: www.barrycourt.co.nz Price: From NZ$120-324. Carlton Hotel This central, architecturally spectacular 12-storey hotel has a glass-walled atrium that extends to its full height and 455 rooms ranging from royal through executive to studio suites, as well as large well-appointed, air-conditioned standard rooms with floor to ceiling windows and great views. Along with a dedicated business centre, complete with secretarial support, the hotel also contains five meeting rooms and one of the largest capacity ballrooms in the city, all just 25km (16 miles) from the airport. Other valuable facilities are safe deposit boxes, faxes in all rooms, excellent security, catering facilities, a choice of two excellent restaurants – one fusion and one Japanese – and two comfortable and relaxing bars. Corner of Mayoral Drive and Vincent Street Tel: (09) 366 3000. Fax: (09) 366 0121. E-mail: res@carlton-auckland.co.nz Website: www.carlton-auckland.co.nz Price: From NZ$340-2015. First Imperial Auckland This high-class hotel of 60 rooms – including three that are specifically designed for disabled guests – is situated in the centre of Auckland and just a five-minute walk from the main shopping streets and waterfront. The tall redbrick, apartment-house-style block has balconies and contains an excellent variety of modern, air-conditioned accommodation in the form of standard hotel rooms, executive studios and executive two-bedroom apartments. Each room has IDD telephones, PC connectors and modem points. The hotel also contains one large and one smaller conference facility with video and presentation equipment hire and secretarial support. 131-139 Hobson Street Tel: (09) 357 6770. Fax: (09) 357 6793. E-mail: res@firstimperial.co.nz Website: www.firstimperial.co.nz Price: From NZ$125-210. Hyatt Regency Auckland This unmistakable, tall broad and handsome modern building in central Auckland is just a five-minute walk from the Central Business District and 25km (16 miles) from the airport. The 274 rooms on offer may not match the presidential suite but all are air-conditioned and have IDD telephones, Internet access via infrared keyboards, voice-mail and in-room safes. There is also a business centre with equipment hire, secretarial services, courier delivery, translators, an airport limousine and a ballroom, as well as eight additional conference rooms with full staff back-up. In addition, the hotel boasts two restaurants, a fitness centre and jogging track, with panoramic views of the harbour and outlying city. Corner of Princess Street and Waterloo Quadrant Tel: (09) 355 1234. Fax: (09) 302 3269. E-mail: auckland@hyatt.co.nz Website: www.hyatt.co.nz Price: From NZ$180. Luxury The Heritage Auckland Auckland’s most interesting international-class luxury hotel was originally the city’s most historic and spectacular department store, Farmers. The landmark building has an iconic reputation and is a wonderful example of Southern Hemisphere Art Deco styling. The Heritage has two separate accommodation wings, made up of 467 rooms and suites, a tennis court, two swimming pools (one roof-top), a health club, a business centre, spa pools, saunas, gyms, restaurants, café bars, lobby bars, a glass atrium and, best of all, a grand tea room with fantastic views of the harbour and the America’s Cup Village. Quite simply, this hotel is style and luxury personified. 35 Hobson Street Tel: (09) 379 8553. Fax: (09) 379 8554. E-mail: res.herritageakl@dynasty.co.nz Website: www.dynasty.co.nz Price: From NZ$179-499. Sky City Hotel Part of Auckland’s most famous and most recent landmark, the Skytower, this massive and lavish hotel in the centre of the city has 344 rooms, various restaurants and bars, conference and business facilities, a roof-top pool, gym, saunas and casino, as well as stunning harbour and city views. The best of the vistas are seen from the circular viewing gallery at the top of the space-needle-like tower. All the rooms, from premier suites to standard luxury, are tastefully decorated in the style and to the standard of world-class luxury hotels the globe over, while the service is efficient, friendly and respectful. Corner of Victoria Street and Hobson Street Tel: (09) 363 6000. Fax: (09) 363 6032. E-mail: reservations@skycity.co.nz Website: www.skycity.co.nz Price: From NZ$290-1200. Moderate Hotel DeBrett Only minutes from the city centre, DeBrett is the place to sample the joys of an Art Deco hotel, at a fraction of the price of The Heritage (see Luxury). The corner-block building leans out over the pavement to provide covered sidewalks and shows its history in the decorations on the façade. This interesting building, which crouches in the middle of the fashion and café districts, was constructed on the site of one of Auckland’s first hotels and, despite showing its age a little at the edges, contains some comfortable and airy double rooms that offer good value for the tourist. 2 High Street Tel: (09) 377 2389. Fax: (09) 377 2391. E-mail: debrett@acb.co.nz Website: www.acb.co.nz/debrett Price: From NZ$80-110, including breakfast. Kiwi International Hotel This modest albeit perfectly adequate hotel is located in the middle of the city, only a 25-minute drive from the airport. Kiwi International Hotel contains a bar and restaurant, laundry, 24-hour reception, off-street parking, conference facilities and 120 comfortable and functional rooms with their own en-suite facilities. Although the decor is rather characterless and the interior gives the impression of an ageing warren, there is sufficient compensation in the number and quality of the facilities on offer, the eagerness of the staff, the variety of accommodation available and the surprisingly low daily, or long-term, rates. 411 Queen Street Tel: (09) 379 6487. Fax: (09) 379 6496. E-mail: kiwihotel@xtra.co.nz Website: www.kiwihotel.co.nz Price: From NZ$100-130, including breakfast. Other Recommendations Peace & Plenty Inn Without exaggeration, this is one of the finest bed and breakfasts in the entire country, with sumptuous, restored kauri-timber floors that feel like silk beneath bare feet, leading to exquisite en-suite rooms filled with fresh flowers, antique furniture and sherry or port decanters. There is a delightful verandah for breakfast – weather permitting – and the meal itself is an event of major proportions and large, healthy and hearty portions. It is served by an ultra-friendly couple, who offer sailing trips around the bay on their boat. 6 Flagstaff Terrace Tel: (09) 445 2925. Fax: (09) 445 2901. E-mail: peaceandplenty@xtra.com Website: www.peaceandplenty.co.nz Price: From NZ$200, including breakfast. St Georges Bay Lodge Undoubtedly one of the best types of accommodation in all of New Zealand is the bed & breakfast. In this case, St George’s Bay Lodge is situated in a beautiful Victorian villa in the airy and quiet suburb of Parnell, just a short ferry ride from the city centre. The white-board villa was built in the 1890s and boasts the original sash windows, turned verandah posts – supporting verdant green climbing plants – and a conservatory leading out onto a wooden balcony that overlooks Auckland’s city centre from across the bay. The house is full of native timber furniture and original Kiwi artworks. There are three en-suite rooms of glorious comfort and elegance and the breakfasts, full English or continental, are to die for. 43 St Georges Bay Road, Parnell Tel: (09) 303 1050. Fax: (09) 303 0155. E-mail: enquiry@stgeorge.co.nz Website: www.stgeorge.co.nz Price: From NZ$165-205, including breakfast. |
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