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Reviews of Bucklands Beach Waterfront Motel

3 out of 5
Bucklands Beach Waterfront Motel
42 The Parade, Auckland

Reviews

8.2

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 130 out of 331 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 126 out of 331 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 48 out of 331 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 12 out of 331 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 15 out of 331 reviews" "

8.4/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

7.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.8/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Elaine

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location, close enough to Auckland, you can see the sky tower in the distance, local ferry to the islands and Auckland. The beach is just a 2 minute walk. This is our 2nd time staying at the resort and will use again when we come again.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Eleanor

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Unaloto

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Richard

Its price and location
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

6/10 Okay

Gregory

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The room was small and cramped. We expected much better.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

janice

Liked: Cleanliness
Lovely
Stayed 5 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Carolyn

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very clean studio unit. This motel is situated in a relaxed, beautiful spot, it was lovely taking a walk along the water front in evening
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from Peter on 27 Jan 2024
Thanks for your time in writing us a review. Have a great day!

10/10 Excellent

Claudiana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from Peter on 27 Jan 2024
Thanks for your time in writing us a review. Have a great day!

2/10 Terrible

Sanjeevan

Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2023
Response from Peter on 27 Jan 2024
Thanks for your stay with us. Sorry to learn that you were extremely unsatisfied as reflected in your review score.of 1 in the scale of 5. Is there a mistake in the scoring as we are mindful you had rated us well in family, check-in and staff. We aim to do better. Thanks for sharing.

8/10 Good

Sharron

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023
Response from Peter on 27 Jan 2024
Thanks for your time in writing us a review. Have a great day!

10/10 Excellent

Tiffany

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Booked a 2bedroom seaview loft with 5 kids. Plenty of room for everyone to spread out. Great view off balcony. Friendly staff at check in. Great pool. Will stay again
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Rhonda

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
While the location is wonderful, the staff were friendly and accommodating and the layout of the villa was spacious, homely and sufficient for our purposes, we were overwhelmed with the musty smell that impregnated our clothing and possessions. The same smell was in another villa we stayed in earlier in the year too.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

4/10 Poor

Gael

Travelled with family
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This property is a health and safety issue. The floors were soft underfoot which is concerning. The stairs to upstairs were terrible and huge concern if you had toddlers staying here. Bathroom had no plug, not clean and very tired. Whole place needs an upgrade. Said room I booked had garden views could not see any garden. Would not stay here again.

10/10 Excellent

Christine, Brisbane

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice view
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Richard

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Comfortable stay
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

8/10 Good

Richard

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great location. Friendly owner when checking in. Comfortable room.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

8/10 Good

Jill

Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Nolene

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Caren

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Fabulous view of the water but the properties interior is very tired & needs a full upgrade. When I arrived the office was locked & it took a while to find someone to check me in. The cleaner greeted me with a lovely smile but the female Manager offered no smile or welcome & seemed less than impressed I needed help. It could be a cultural thing but she didn’t even show me to the door - very rude. She said I was to park in No.7 carpark & she was parked there! - again no apology. I asked if there was an additional carpark as there were only 2-3,cars in the carpark - again she was most unhelpful. Hours later she banged on the door & said we could also use No8 carpark - again no smile. When I left at 5am there were plenty of extra carparks available so what was the problem? This person should not be in this role as she will drive guests away & you’d certainly never go back.I was in Unit 7 & with no soundproofing it was like a herd of elephants had moved in upstairs - the guests must have had young children. My Family from England stayed here approx 20years ago when it was owned by Barry Curtis & it was fabulous. On the plus side the male owner was very helpful on the phone & offered a 1pm check-in. Thank you.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Markus

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We were very satisfied with everything...
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2023
Response from Peter on 23 Mar 2023
Thanks, Marcus, for your time in giving us a review.

8/10 Good

Felicity

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Shawn

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Really enjoyed staying there, lovely room, Sonya was very helpful and friendly. Would definitely stay again
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023
Response from Peter on 23 Mar 2023
Thanks, Shawn, for your time in giving us a review.

8/10 Good

Monique

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service, amenities
Great waterfront view
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023
Response from Peter on 23 Mar 2023
Thanks, Monique, for your time in giving us a review.

8/10 Good

JAMES

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Unique mezzanine sleeping arrangement which was fun for the kids. Great sea views.

8/10 Good

Trevor

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We have stayed here multiple times over the years, great spot to stay with good restaurant choices in the area. A little more maintenance wouldn't hurt, other than that good place for families

8/10 Good

Renee

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We loved that we were in Auckland but with the beach right there it felt like we were somewhere else

10/10 Excellent

Derek

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful views. Dislike: neighboring unit's aircon unit vents hot air onto patio.

6/10 Okay

Terry

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Clean and neat, but tired. Needs repainting and replacement of some thing such as windows that do not close.

8/10 Good

Murray

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location on the beach front. I was in a small, basic unit that had everything needed for a short stay. Clean and quiet.

10/10 Excellent

Diana

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2022

6/10 Okay

Katie

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

8/10 Good

Kate

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

2/10 Terrible

Sheik

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Matt

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The room was a great size and with good amenities including a full size fridge. The view was spectacular and the road noise minimal with the door shut. It was also very clean. The only negatives i could say were some of the parking is a little tight if you have a large vehicle but not bad by any means, and the noise coming through the ceiling from stomping and running kids was very loud (but that was beyond the control of the motel). Was a little dated but still clean and comfortable. 4 out of 5 stars.😊
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sharyn

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great Stay with views over the water. Staff very friendly and helpful. The only issue we had was you could hear the people above us, but apart from that we had a great stay for our event. Thanks
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022
Response from Peter on 4 Sept 2022
Thanks for the review.

8/10 Good

Dean

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022
Response from Peter on 12 Aug 2022
Thanks for your review.

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Lana

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022
Response from Peter on 12 Aug 2022
Thanks for your review.

10/10 Excellent

Therese

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
It was very clean.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022
Response from Peter on 27 Jul 2022
Thanks for your time in giving us a review.

8/10 Good

Jacqui

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Massive bed & great shower
Very handy nice clean accommodation with a massive bed and good shower, unit was quite compact but great for us as we only needed a bed and a shower
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Margret

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved every bit of our stay highly recommend these guys staff are so friendly and welcoming definitely going back
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Brad

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Kay

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Would reccomend
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

8/10 Good

Glenn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
location
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Lesley

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was right on the beach front, was amazing to wake up pull the curtins and see the boats. Great facilities and service
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

8/10 Good

Pauline

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sharita

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
My only down fall is that the space to walk between the bed and television was extremely small
Stayed 1 night in May 2022

8/10 Good

Sanjo

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

Isabel

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

8/10 Good

Manu

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The view was beautiful
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022