Lake Brown Holidays from NZ$1,636

This was a convenient overnight stop and arrangements for out of office key collection were really good. Property was clean and simple. I didn’t love the separate bathroom (you have to leave the room to cross the corridor) but otherwise it was a decent value.

The housekeeping was not great I ran out of stuff a few times. The rooms were very nice but no fridge, a teeny bin and running out of essentials quickly spoiled it a bit.

Ok hotel but a lot of junkies in the area at night. No soundproofing of the room. They didn’t provide the welcome drink that was supposed to be included with my booking and they also didn’t provide any snacks in return for opting out of daily room cleaning.

As it was our 30th wedding anniversary, we were given a bottle of bubbly as a surprise as well as 2 personal cards. We really appreciated the kind gestures

I had high expectations for the area and for the hotel it seemed dated my room had a weird smell in the hallway, smelled like oil paint drying to the point where it sort of gave me a headache. I have to say that when I went to the front desk to say anything, they were very nice about it. I’m not sure they were able to address it and another comment that maybe had nothing to do with the hotel, but just the area at times seemed sketchy, but I don’t know if that’s the hotel’s fault obviously