Over the last 6 years I've stayed in over 60 different hotels throughout the South Island. On the whole they are very good and offer reasonable value for money. I've only ever written good reviews and have just taken the bad hotels in my stride and simply not stayed there again, but this recent experience has been particularly bad. My only hope is they up their game of drop the price drastically to suit the conditions offered.
Nowhere to park when I arrived due to poor layout of hotel and other guests taking all the spaces. Opened the door, the room absolutely stunk of smoke (to be fair this was mainly due to the people in the neighbouring room but the windows had been left open). There was cooked rice all over the floor and there was a 1m2 squared section of carpet absolutely saturated with what I hope was water. They just hadn't cleaned the room and the demeanour of the hotelier when I asked her to come and look at it suggested she already knew of the mess and the flooding but had possibly hoped her guest would simply let it slide. WiFi didn't work at all in this room, too far from the modem. Luckily there was a spare room so I moved there, WiFi almost as bad in this room as well.
Basically if you're going to provide a beaten up, run down unit in desperate need of an upgrade, that has no WiFi, flooding and food on the floor, then the price should reflect that. Unfortunately it's experiences like this that undermine my confidence in booking through Wotif online.