Havelock North Motor Lodge

This is a great accommodation option. Easy to communicate with pre-arrival & great service while staying. Rooms are clean & very comfortable. Great to have separate easy chairs, dining table & spacious bed. It's not often that you get extra biscuits & a great range of beverages these days! The disability unit is one of the best we have experienced. Non-slip foor, seat to fold down in shower. plenty of substantial railings. You could not be more central to food venues with several just over the road & a supermarket within easy walking distance. We can thoroughly recommend this accommodation.

Stayed there for a week on business and was so well looked after. Nothing was too much trouble. It was very comfortable, quiet although right in the centre of town, close to the brand new New World supermarket and a range of restaurants. I would certainly stay there again on a return visit.

Great location and quiet! Very clean and tidy. Air conditioning in the unit which was necessary. Great shower pressure too. Body wash & shampoo in shower for guests to use. Hairdryer available also. Very comfortable bed. Very helpful & friendly staff.

We stay at this lovely motel several times a year, and had a five night stay booked in late June, to celebrate my birthday. We duly travelled up (from Lower Hutt) on the Sunday and as usual our room (unit 3, a one-bedroom unit) was scrupulously clean and waiting for us. One of the things we love about this motel is that it’s directly across the road from about six or seven different restaurants. No need to worry about cooking dinner!! Highly recommend The Great Chilli (Indian, see separate review) and Havelock North Fish – as it’s a takeaway only I can’t do a review, but we had a beautiful meal of fish and chips on our last night. Unfortunately we received a call from back home on the Monday to say one of our close relatives had been hospitalised unexpectedly, so we had to cut our stay short and headed back home on the Tuesday after only two nights. Thank you Aaron and team for another great stay, we’ll be back again in a few month’s time.

Superb location, spacious, very clean, great to have bath and shower, easy parking. Really impressed with such a range of teas, coffees, coffee maker, very friendly helpful staff. Would definitely recommend.

Hubby and I have stayed at this motel many times and really like it. The owner and staff are super friendly and helpful. We normally have a one-bedroom unit, which we did again this time round. It gives us a separate bedroom if one of us (normally me!) wants to go to bed earlier than the other. This time we were in Room 3 again, it’s our favourite (for no particular reason, we’ve stayed in other one-bedroom units and they’re all the same but we’ve gotten used to this one). There is a single bed (a proper bed, not a bed/settee) in the lounge so it would comfortably sleep three if required. There is a lot of room in the kitchen/dining room/lounge area. The rooms are always scrupulously clean, and the complimentary toiletries are very nice to use. We find the large super King sized beds extremely comfortable and always have a good night’s sleep. Directly across the road from the motel entrance are about six different restaurants, some eat in, some takeaway, some both. We highly recommend The Great Chilli for a delicious Indian meal, and Havelock North Fish for some of the best fish and chips we’ve had in a long time. The fish and chips was so nice we had it twice during our four-night stay. The motel is right in the centre of the village, so you’re only a minute or two’s walk away from the shops and other cafés/eateries. Should you wish to cook meals, there are two hot plates set into the benchtop, and a microwave. There is a very generous supply of tea/coffee/chocolate/sugar etc and a Nespresso coffee machine that uses pods, with two pods provided free. The rooms have “My Sky” so you can set the recorder to record whatever you want during your stay. Not many motels have this, and it’s really great. Unlimited wifi which works very well. Thank you Havelock North Motor Lodge for another enjoyable stay, we’ll be back again in a few months.

INCREDIBLY comfortable bed and pillows Sadly, an incredibly small shower, but perhaps because they also had a bath…. Nice to have a TV in the bedroom and the lounge The couch in the lounge wasn’t very comfortable for two people though… Air conditioning might have been better in the bedroom to keep us cool at night…. Very friendly, helpful and professional staff Convenient parking outside the room…. Dry clean and tidy Very nice to have a coffee plunger and the Nespresso machine!!

We enjoyed another great stay. This is the only place we will stay when holidaying in Havelock North. The location is superb and the accomodation is excellent. The owner Aaron operates the property in a very professional manner. Thanks for your great hospitality from you and your wife. We’ll see you when we visit again!

We stayed here for four nights in October. We’ve stayed here before, and as with our previous stays, we were really pleased with our accommodation. We were in Unit 3, a one-bedroom unit. It’s very roomy and has a good kitchenette setup. One thing I really like is that they have MySky so you can set it to record whatever you want to watch. The unit was very clean and everything worked really well. Very friendly staff, check in and check out was very easy. It’s so handy to everything. There are about six or seven different eateries (sit down and/or takeaway) directly across the road from the motel, and the village itself is about two minutes walk away (if that). We will definitely be back.