Homestays in Otago, New Zealand

We had a good stay, enjoyed the daily simple breakfast with the fantastic view of the snow mountains from the restaurant. We were able to do simple cooking for my family. The dinning and recreation area was cosy and we spent a lot of time there after our daily sight-seeing. The cleaning and support staff (we understand they come from another country to work in NZ) made our stay at the lodge more comfortable. When we informed them our warmer broke down in our room, a female and male staff came and inspected our warmer in our room. Thereafter, the male staff brought us additional blankets and portable warmers to keep ourselves and our 4 kids warm - KUDOS! It is a good value accommodation for my family - considering for the price that we had paid as compared to the prices of other accommodation in Queenstown, NZ.

Great place to stay with different choices for rooms. I stayed in 3 different rooms. I liked the Double private rooms that had a bathroom with shower. The double bed was comfortable & there was also a single which I used for my luggage. It was roomy enough for 2 people but traveling solo it was really perfect. The shared kitchen & lounge area for this building (one upstairs & another on 1st floor) were huge & clean. Due to a last minute booking at end of my stay I had to stay in a 4 bunk room (just me in the room) that was small & I thought dark. However, the bunk was comfortable & the shared single shower was on the same floor but toilet was on 1st floor as were the lounge & small kitchen. There were only 3 rooms in this building that shared the facilities but for me it wasn't the best. However, I highly recommend the Lodges other rooms & all rooms were very clean. When I changed rooms I put my bags in a secure storage until my next room was ready. The staff was exceptional & the location great. It was about a 10min walk to the main part of town which had great restaurants & stores. In the other direction was a grocery about a 5 min walk from the Lodge. Wifi was very good & they give you different codes because one was only good for a certain length of time before it expired. Also you need a different code for each device you use. I really enjoyed my stay here & would choose it again.

Good location with alot food nearby. Very comfy stay with comfy bed. And include breakfast as well. Overall, very worthy stay. Will recommend it.

My husband and I stayed here for a stop in Queenstown for our honeymoon! Centrally located and close to the downtown! Rooms were very clean and great to have parking for our JUCY van! The check in office was great helping us out with an issue of double booking. I highly recommend you stay here! Drive over to the Bungy bridge, Skyline luge and Ferburger!

John and the lovely Barbara we there in our time of need. We had such an awful stay in Dunedin we looked for something better and by golly didn't we just! This fantastic Bed and Breakfast was an oasis of calm, peace and happiness. The welcome we received was second to none and the glass of wine on the terrace was just the tonic we needed. The building is modern with all up to date amenities, something which cannot be said of a very large part of NZ motels, sadly. Super modern room with fantastic bed, magic shower and spotlessly clean. Great TV offering including Netflix, another facility in excess of the norm, 5 channels, if you are lucky, in most motels etc. They have a guest kitchen where we cooked a meal, all the facilities you would have at home. The terrace outside our room overlooked alpaca and sheep and a lake. Fields and trees abound. I could wax lyrical about this place forever, it deserves a 6. The sleep quality was excellent, quiet with no sounds from other rooms. Breakfast in the main house with John in attendance, what a great guy, good fun, interesting to talk to. Breakfast was super, cereals, choice of breads, home made jams and marmalades, fruit, yoghurt and muesli, ample for anyone, but you can have cooked for a very small extra charge if required. We met some lovely people and had a good laugh,it felt very much like home. I would thoroughly recommend you stay here, and John and Barbara had been to Torquay in England where I was born, what more can you ask. Top Notch.

The castle is in a manor on a peninsula (the gate of the manor has access control), and there are no people in the castle. It is a museum-type attraction. Both the stable and the lodge are on the same estate as the castle. Stable and lodge are two kinds of accommodation. I live in lodge. The room has a very old smell, but the view from the window is excellent. The bedroom and bathroom are quite small, and there is no living room, which is inconvenient for people with a lot of luggage. There are gift shops, restaurants and the main body of the castle on the castle side. Breakfast is a buffet, which is quite satisfactory and there are not many choices. In addition, the Wi-Fi is not easy to use at night. I don't know if it is because too many people use it. In short, it is a relatively new experience, the environment and scenery are very good, it is convenient to visit the castle, and other aspects are relatively ordinary as a hotel itself. Another point is that you have to drive to the island. The visibility at night is not good, and the surrounding guardrails are also quite low. If you drive, it is best to go during the day.

Our room #5 was of moderate size with kitchen facilities and a balcony overlooking the street and park. I found the room more comfortable than I expected from the photos though given the size of the room it might be nice to have had a cozy chair for reading. Otherwise you could sit on the bed or at the table. As mentioned by other reviewers, parking can be a challenge if the few spaces under the hotel are unavailable. But the waterfront, restaurants (try Botswana Butchery and Eichardts) and the gondola are just a 5 minute walk away. I would stay here again.

A very satisfying stay experience! The host was very nice and entertained us warmly. He talked about local customs and travel recommendations, and even took us to visit his fruit and vegetable garden, just like we were guests at a friend's house♥️ The house was clean and tidy, with complete supplies and a well-kept small garden, where we could sit Looking at the beautiful scenery on the other side from the balcony, it is comfortable and comfortable💐 Five-star recommendation🌟

We had a good stay, enjoyed the daily simple breakfast with the fantastic view of the snow mountains from the restaurant. We were able to do simple cooking for my family. The dinning and recreation area was cosy and we spent a lot of time there after our daily sight-seeing. The cleaning and support staff (we understand they come from another country to work in NZ) made our stay at the lodge more comfortable. When we informed them our warmer broke down in our room, a female and male staff came and inspected our warmer in our room. Thereafter, the male staff brought us additional blankets and portable warmers to keep ourselves and our 4 kids warm - KUDOS! It is a good value accommodation for my family - considering for the price that we had paid as compared to the prices of other accommodation in Queenstown, NZ.

Great place to stay with different choices for rooms. I stayed in 3 different rooms. I liked the Double private rooms that had a bathroom with shower. The double bed was comfortable & there was also a single which I used for my luggage. It was roomy enough for 2 people but traveling solo it was really perfect. The shared kitchen & lounge area for this building (one upstairs & another on 1st floor) were huge & clean. Due to a last minute booking at end of my stay I had to stay in a 4 bunk room (just me in the room) that was small & I thought dark. However, the bunk was comfortable & the shared single shower was on the same floor but toilet was on 1st floor as were the lounge & small kitchen. There were only 3 rooms in this building that shared the facilities but for me it wasn't the best. However, I highly recommend the Lodges other rooms & all rooms were very clean. When I changed rooms I put my bags in a secure storage until my next room was ready. The staff was exceptional & the location great. It was about a 10min walk to the main part of town which had great restaurants & stores. In the other direction was a grocery about a 5 min walk from the Lodge. Wifi was very good & they give you different codes because one was only good for a certain length of time before it expired. Also you need a different code for each device you use. I really enjoyed my stay here & would choose it again.

My husband and I stayed here for a stop in Queenstown for our honeymoon! Centrally located and close to the downtown! Rooms were very clean and great to have parking for our JUCY van! The check in office was great helping us out with an issue of double booking. I highly recommend you stay here! Drive over to the Bungy bridge, Skyline luge and Ferburger!

Our room #5 was of moderate size with kitchen facilities and a balcony overlooking the street and park. I found the room more comfortable than I expected from the photos though given the size of the room it might be nice to have had a cozy chair for reading. Otherwise you could sit on the bed or at the table. As mentioned by other reviewers, parking can be a challenge if the few spaces under the hotel are unavailable. But the waterfront, restaurants (try Botswana Butchery and Eichardts) and the gondola are just a 5 minute walk away. I would stay here again.

A very satisfying stay experience! The host was very nice and entertained us warmly. He talked about local customs and travel recommendations, and even took us to visit his fruit and vegetable garden, just like we were guests at a friend's house♥️ The house was clean and tidy, with complete supplies and a well-kept small garden, where we could sit Looking at the beautiful scenery on the other side from the balcony, it is comfortable and comfortable💐 Five-star recommendation🌟

Friendly family owned business. Rooms aren't huge but have good sized beds as well as being clean and comfortable. Plenty of lounge space if you want to stretch out and relax. Nice views out to the lake and less than a 10 minute walk into town. Free cooked breakfast was delicious and made a great start to our day. Highly recommended.

Good location with alot food nearby. Very comfy stay with comfy bed. And include breakfast as well. Overall, very worthy stay. Will recommend it.

We had a lovely two night stay in November. Everywhere was very clean. Shared bathrooms were never too busy and super clean. Kitchen was great. Really enjoyed the spa pool after hiking Roy’s Peak. Easy drive into the main town area, restaurants, shops. You could also walk in to town or to the lake. Would recommend for a nice budget friendly Wanaka stay.

My wife and I spent two nights at Wanaka Homestead and wish it could have been a couple nights more. We booked the Lismore Cottage, which was far more than we needed (3BR, 2BA) but talk about comfortable! It was downright lavish, and well priced for all we got. Location is super convenient to the lake, with a nice walk through a beautiful tree and flower-filled park, just 15 minutes walk from the town center. Bedding and furnishings were outstanding. Our host, Allan, was absolutely terrific - welcoming, engaging, with great stories to tell and spot-on tips for dining and entertainment in town. Highly recommend Allan's restaurant, Francesca's Italian Kitchen, and Pembroke Wine & Spirits, which he recommended, the latter looking like a bottle shop but featuring amazing cheese and charcuterie boards and terrific wine, beer and gin tastings. Highly recommend Wanaka Homestead as the perfect Wanaka home base!

After dawdling through the alpine beauty of Haast Pass, and descending down SH6, passing-by Lake Hawea to Wanaka, we were challenged to find our accommodation. The lodge is positioned in the south part of the town, off Ardmore St, the waterfront, driving up Helwick St. passed several shops on both sides, crossing two roads Brownston and Upton, to Warren Street, down sharply on the left. We were given a spacious room, with a large king bed, and an outside seating area with views towards Cardrona Resort and Mt Aspiring National Park. There were a couple of areas, the kitchen/dining room and a sitting room/lounge, shared with other residents and a reception manned mid-afternoon until late afternoon/ early evening. Access later was via a secure digital locked door. The arrangements were unusual, but perfectly comfortable and quiet on the edge of the town centre, with restaurants and shops within easy walking down Helwick Street. We had time to swim in the lake on the two days we stayed in Wanaka, both days hot around 30c in mid-afternoon, relieved by plunging into the icy lake wqters. The experience contrasted with the daily cold-water swim our daughter had introduced us to back up in the Bay of Plenty, it was noticeably clearer, not buoyant like sea-water.

The family of three ordered two bedrooms. The advantage is that the house has a large living room, a large lawn behind the door, and a small slide next to it. It is very good for parking. The disadvantage is that as soon as you enter the master bedroom, a foreign body smell disappears when you open the window. In addition, there is a distance from the lakeside, and it is uphill, farther from the town. Comprehensive: Fair and reasonable holiday hotel.

John and the lovely Barbara we there in our time of need. We had such an awful stay in Dunedin we looked for something better and by golly didn't we just! This fantastic Bed and Breakfast was an oasis of calm, peace and happiness. The welcome we received was second to none and the glass of wine on the terrace was just the tonic we needed. The building is modern with all up to date amenities, something which cannot be said of a very large part of NZ motels, sadly. Super modern room with fantastic bed, magic shower and spotlessly clean. Great TV offering including Netflix, another facility in excess of the norm, 5 channels, if you are lucky, in most motels etc. They have a guest kitchen where we cooked a meal, all the facilities you would have at home. The terrace outside our room overlooked alpaca and sheep and a lake. Fields and trees abound. I could wax lyrical about this place forever, it deserves a 6. The sleep quality was excellent, quiet with no sounds from other rooms. Breakfast in the main house with John in attendance, what a great guy, good fun, interesting to talk to. Breakfast was super, cereals, choice of breads, home made jams and marmalades, fruit, yoghurt and muesli, ample for anyone, but you can have cooked for a very small extra charge if required. We met some lovely people and had a good laugh,it felt very much like home. I would thoroughly recommend you stay here, and John and Barbara had been to Torquay in England where I was born, what more can you ask. Top Notch.