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Reviews of Palmerston North Motel

3.5 out of 5
Palmerston North Motel
66 Linton Street, Palmerston North

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 146 out of 302 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 106 out of 302 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 28 out of 302 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 16 out of 302 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 6 out of 302 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

7.2/10

Amenities

7.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

Stephen

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Tv wouldent wor jammed on 19 noone to talk with yo fix lights in bedroom didnt go heater remote doesent work no bed side tables just appalling bed comfy nice to experience terrible now and sgain
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

6/10 Okay

Robert

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

graeme

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
best value for money this is the place to stay when visiting Palmerston north
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Jan

Travelled with partner
Close to where we needed to be
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

graham, avondale

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
great staff,great bed and shower ,easy parking easy walk to the city will book again
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

4/10 Poor

Andrea

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Rude reception. Limited parking. Poor condition Furnishings.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024
Response from Lyn on 24 Feb 2024
Sorry you didn't enjoy your stay with us Andrea. I try very hard to be cheerful when checking in guests but when you don't give me the first name to go with your booking it makes my job of finding the unit and your name a challenge. But this tells me that in future I may have to ask for photo ID instead so that the full information is in front of me. Unfortunately some guests also find that rude so it seems hard to win. Every unit has 1 car park and we also have 4 spare car parks which I think most guests would think was sensible...And acceptable, also directly outside your unit door another plus...

10/10 Excellent

Joanne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Will stay here again and recommend to others
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from Lyn on 24 Feb 2024
Thanks for your positive review, much appreciated.

10/10 Excellent

Raelene

Travelled with pets
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Pet friendly ❤️
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from Lyn on 24 Feb 2024
Thanks for your positive review, much appreciated.

8/10 Good

Rickie

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Rose

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from Lyn on 24 Feb 2024
Thanks for your positive review, much appreciated.

6/10 Okay

Meredith

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Staff & service
Room smelt like old cigarette smoke. Beds WAY too soft and not enough pillows.
Response from Lyn on 24 Feb 2024
Sorry you could smell smoke around your unit, All guests know the rules are to smoke outside and I have faith that most guests follow these rules. I'm please to hear the beds are lovely and soft but unfortunately not how you like it. Never mind...

10/10 Excellent

Jane

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great water pressure in shower and very quite at night
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from Lyn on 24 Feb 2024
Thanks for your positive review, much appreciated.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location with refreshing pool onsite
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023
Response from Lyn on 24 Feb 2024
Thanks for your positive review, much appreciated.

2/10 Terrible

Mahend

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023
Response from Lyn on 29 Dec 2023
Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy your stay. You seemed quite happy to drink quite a bit each night so maybe your headache is the reason you didn't enjoy your stay. Your review doesn't have any comments and is reflected by the other quite happy guests who have offered an honest review.

8/10 Good

Mike

Travelled with group
Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very quiet motel centrally located
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

6/10 Okay

Logan

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

4/10 Poor

Viliami

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Close to my work.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023
Response from Lyn on 12 Nov 2023
Viliami, You booked the wrong dates and you blame me??? It was hard work getting enough information out of you to find your mistake. Yet I found a unit for you at late notice even thou you couldn't meet our payment requirements. Check your bookings in the future

4/10 Poor

MJ

Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Not good
It would be ok if you wanted to travel with a pet. One of the other units had a big dog.
Pool water was green and pool furniture broken.  I didn't know if it was ok to swim or not as no one at Reception ever.  Check in was self check in.  I received a text saying key in room and room unlocked ready for you.
In front of one unit.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

James

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great value motel.
Very nice stay. Room was larger than expected and had a kitchenette. We made dinner there this saving even more money. Staff was friendly the next morning. Walkable to grocery and downtown. Could use a spruce up, seemed dated, but it is an older motel and it was quite cheap to stay
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

4/10 Poor

Gail

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wish l had read the reviews before booking. My mistake . Would not recommend staying here , though room was clean, kettle could do with a good clean or replaced . Strips missing from vertical blinds , no power points in bathroom and no mirror , is a mirror in bedroom
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023
Response from Lyn on 16 Oct 2023
I'm sorry you were unhappy with unit 12. Yes, all our units are older but spacious and we work hard to have them clean to a high std. So kettle could be newer... 1 vertical strip missing from the living room blind but hardly lets in lots of sunshine.. And as for the bathroom powerpoint - it is a very small bathroom so the power points are by the mirror which is in the bdrm area - a meter away. Most people can manage with that for a 1 night stay such as yours. We make the most of the spaces we have - they were built 50 yrs ago so doing pretty well considering , and at a low cost to you the traveller..

8/10 Good

Colin

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Lack of facilities for bags and suitcases
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Chris

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service
There was no one there for check in and had to text to be able to check in. Then there was mouse poo in the bathroom and on the single bed. The rubbish bin hadn't been emptied before our stay so no wonder there are mice. Handbasin had terrible stains in it. Very dated and needs a complete overhaul.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from Lyn on 16 Oct 2023
There's very little honesty in this review. You were in a lovely unit and we don't have any mice at the moment, I haven't seen mouse poo in years actually. The hand basin is clean but as it's a plastic surface we can't do anything about the little crack mines. We'd love to replace it but corner basins aren't being made anymore so it has to wait until the whole unit gets an upgrade.

10/10 Excellent

A M

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Graeme

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Wifi didn’t seem to be connected to the internet- none of our devices worked
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

6/10 Okay

Ken

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Reasonable stay
Reasonable value. But just too old and dirt carpet. Need a total refurbishment but then would also command a better price.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Carmen

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Would definitely stay here again, a lovely motel in great location
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mike

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

8/10 Good

Grant

Liked: Cleanliness
For the money I spent this property suited my needs as I only needed a quick stay so wasn't wanting somewhere flash. This Motel is obviously more for those who need emergency accommodation as there are permanent residents. The room itself was adequate and had everything I required. Wouldn't stay again though.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023
Response from Lyn on 25 Jul 2023
Thanks for your positive review Grant but just to clarify we don't offer Emergency Housing and haven't for nearly 2 yrs. All our guests are short term workers/ holiday makers.

8/10 Good

Lisa

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Gary

Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kelvin

Liked: Cleanliness
Close to town and quiet.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

8/10 Good

Milena

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
did exactly what a motel should, no frills
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

Blake

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Izel

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
The room was pleasant, walkable distance from a supermarket. Just found the lady in charge a bit like she didn’t like people there.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Marlene

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Our staff was gr8, we were a bit early, had intended to maybe drop off our baggage, but the lady was very nice & let us check in. Beds were very comfortable 😊
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This is a lovely motel. Very clean and tidy. Suited my needs perfectly. I will gladly stay here again. Thankyou.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Jan

Travelled with partner
The unit was old but clean and tidy. The exterior grounds needed some TLC. Question, are homeless also staying at the motel?
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

2/10 Terrible

Harkamal Vir

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in May 2023
Response from Lyn on 25 May 2023
Ricky (HArkamai) you have stayed here 3 previous times but on this stay you breached the rules. There is a VERY good reason we set the latest check out time as 10am everyday BUT it is MOST important when we are full capacity. ALWAYS vacate the unit before 10am, NO EXCUSES. We have a business to run and time frames to deliver within.

8/10 Good

Joe, Hawers

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Was quiet and comfortable. The rules of the motel were very prescriptive. In our 50 years of travelling this was the first time we have ever had the Motel manager knock on our door at just before 10.00 to remind us that we had to our by 10.00! We actually had our bags in our hands on the way out. We won’t be back!
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Massoud

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Roman

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Awesome staff; nice and clean; great value. Definitely a place to come back multiple times.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

eddie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
place was nice and quite got a text when my room was ready which was good
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Sarah

Travelled with group
Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Good for the price
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

2/10 Terrible

Zoe

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
my room smelt like a dog kennel. so gross i could hardly breath. the people around me staying there where loud and scary.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023

8/10 Good

Rawiri

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Staff & service
Tidy and central, super friendly staff and easy contactless check in and check out - space good for large family like ours and comfy beds with decent kitchen space
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Noeline G

Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2022

10/10 Excellent

jenny

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

4/10 Poor

Rob

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room was tidy enough, however the grounds were tired and weed-ridden. The biggest issue we had was that our unit was between two others that were premanently occupied. Both occupants had dogs. There was a fair bit of noise as we were putting our kids to bed. We couldn't keep the doors open due to the dogs and noise and the aircon didn't work. We received a text on the morning saying the reccepton would be closed that day and that we should just go to our room. Not awesome over all.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023