Dawsons Hotel

Convenient for car show and meeting other friends for tea.

Warm clean room, excellent location near visitor center, ATM, restaurant, shops. Staff were super friendly, locals were alot of fun too!

Perfect Location

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Everything we needed. Serviced & replenished daily

Shower wasn't great but did the job

Location good

The motel unit was extremely basic-small, undulated & dreary.

Location

Noise outside the rear of the room

It's a great place to stay, the location in the middle of the town, and they also provide pub meal which was so good and affordable. All the staff was friendly and helpful, overall happy with the stay.

Maybe the bathroom needs to upgrade, especially the tap, which wasn't that efficient 😁

Location very central

I found the bed a bit uncomfortable

Basic motel unit, clean & tidy

Bathroom, needs a complete refurb. Cold & old.

Comfortable accommodation with a restaurant on site. Friendly staff.

Nothing.

Just a good one night stay place

Need’s a little makeover, everything was a little dated

Good location, right in the middle of town. Nicely laid out units.

There was no dish liquid or tea towel. A microwave would have been good.

Location, OK.

The restaurant is great and all the food was amazing. Staff at the restaurant were awesome.

For the price we paid we were given a very dated run down room. Won’t stay here again, will choose the ones don the road.

Very central.

Nothing.

Excellent location and had all we needed. Pub attached so very easy. Staff great and let us use hose to wash bikes. All very helpful.

No issues

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Ensuite needs updating.

Clean & functions rooms - unsure about brick floors especially when barefoot! Shower pressure amazing. Double/Twin - Good for a group or 2 adults with child. Family Unit - 2nd bedroom through 1st bedroom, not great for using the bathroom.

Brickwork in bathrooms Tap in shower labelling wrong way round so we thought there was no hot water!

Great pub right in the main street. Good, clean rooms straight out the back. Staff very friendly & helpful.

Dinner at the hotel

Shower head. Needs a modern one.

Clean, comfortable and a good location.

Nothing

A nice place to stay one night. Nothing superb, but a decent and clean place to stay.

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Location, lots of character

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Beds were a little too soft for my liking

not applicable as we did not have breakfast there

disappointed with being charged twice, after communication with staff: will contact when 'boss' is back tomorrow. STILL waiting. Will contact business directly next visit rather than going through booking.com The person 'blames' your site/bank blames the business; meantime I paid over $500 for a concrete block room

Clean comfortable

No complaints

Location was good and unit was tidy.

There were some other people staying that were drinking outside of their units in the late afternoon and evening and they appeared intimidating to another family staying as well as our kids.

Lovely staff, nice bar and kitchen, especially on a sunny evening like we had. The room was large and super clean, and the bed was comfortable. Having tea/coffee/chocolate in the morning was great.

Shower a bit basic but it's a shower... did the job!

The location and facilities are great.

Restaurant on site with a really good menu. Lovely staff, comfy bed & a great shower.

Location , the building

The bed wasn’t that comfy and it did smell a big doggy

Shower was great. Excellent location and staff very friendly.

Very Dated. Beds super hard and lacked extra pillows. No air conditioning and was super hot night. No where to put toiletries in shower on in bathroom other than on floor. And shower was so powerful (which was great) but soaked bathroom floor and clothes that I left on it.

The beds were very comfortable with clean linen Coffee/tea making facilities only. Small fridge which was plenty big enough for us Staff were friendly and accommodating. Our TV was not working and they offered to swap our room but because it we had already unpacked we chose to stay in the room, so they allowed us to use the room next door to watch the Tv and invited us into the bar area if we wanted to watch SKY which was very kind.

There was carpet bugs, most dead and just laying against the wall - a good vacuum to get rid of these would have been better than having them in the room There was a huge spider on the ceiling wall - in both rooms - again just removing these would have been better TV didnt work - but they did try to accommodate this issue Bath/shower was small, patched up with ?fibreglass and just looked unpleasant The room just needs updating, cleaning and was definitely over priced for what it was

Great location

great location, pub next door, always good

Location good staff excellent

Units in a courtyard noise abatement problem

The location was good, with the restaurant on site

A bit tied, bathroom brick is very cold even though it was 24 degrees. A shelf in the shower would be a benefit and maybe a couple of hooks.

Reefton is a surprisingly cool place ... really liked it. Dawsons Hotel so handy and has a nice restaurant and bar; even trivia night if you time it right. And reasonably priced. Definitely recommend.

For us, two beds farther apart or a separate bedroom would've been best - my bad not yours - due to one of us (not saying who) being a loud snorer!

Great place to stay, friendly staff. Recommend highly for that authentic Coast hospitality.

Beds were comfortable, bathroom clean, freindly staff

Nothing

Honestly not a lot, the food was really good enough but as a chef I know the cost of what was brought out and served compared to how much we paid for it, we had a buffet for 30ish people don't know why but that happened to be what the publican decided was easier for the hotel staff I think. however we had a buffet that also had all the specials on the blackboard that night which would have cost less than $25 for the meal if we purchased it at the bar and we were charged $45 per person even for our toddler that ate nothing, we had a room which absolutely stunk of wet carpet and mould, beds were ok, but an extortionate price for the room given the dated decor and smell. The staff were all amazing apart from the elderly gentleman doing the buffet watching over it like a hawk, looking like he wanted to be anywhere but running his business and looking after the people that probably paid his wages for the rest of the week, just from our food bill. Honestly I would recommend calling in and having a beer, wouldn't recommend the family room but the smaller refurbished rooms were nice, extremely unhappy with the food cost, but it's a pub where accommodations ain't really available so they get away with charging whatever they want.

Peaceful welcoming friendly

Welcoming place on the Main Street with a friendly bar and good food.

Room a bit basic and needs bathroom improvements.

Old block room. cold

The gentleman when we checked in was lovely and walked us to our room. The room was big and clean.

The whole floor in our bathroom and toilet was wet for our whole visit. Bathroom was huge but no shelf to our stuff on. Could do with some renovations. Shower very out dated and small for the size of the bathroom

Gut für eine Nacht. Ein- und Auschecken war extrem unkompliziert! Liebes kleines Dorf für einen Zwischenstopp

Es war etwas kalt- die Heizung war uns leider zu laut, um sie in der Nacht eingeschaltet zu lassen. Das Bad hat eventuell Renovierungsbedarf...

Location and cleanliness of the unti was great. The bed was comfortable.

Was a bit cold a heat pump may be better. Also the bricked bathroom was cold not sure how you can fix this.

There was no heater in the bathroom it was very cold. Filling the jug was a little tricky using just the bathroom sink.

Great Location, easy access, staff very accommodating, meal was good. Hospitality first rate.

Nothing we didn’t like.

Exactly what I expected. A quaint hotel with warm rooms. If you expecting a fancy hotel this isn't it but it's a perfectly nice clean room in a town seeped in history. A few steps away from everything you need in the town. The publician was so friendly and helpful. I'd stay here again. They don't do breakfasts but thats okay! Spread your money in the town and a breakfast place is a couple of minutes walk away. The beds are firm (a bit to form for this couple)

Nothing! I would recommend a tea towel in the room and a little dish liquid. Of course the staff come and change that but we like to DIY.

We didn't have breakfast at the hotel, but I have to say that the staff were amazing before and during our stay. Thanks so much for making our trip so easy!!

Some of the facilities are a little old, but everything is clean and tidy, warm and functional, so perfect for what we needed.

Lack of shelving & hooks in the bathroom

Exactly what we wanted. Restaurant was nice too. And we'd forgotten all our stuff in the fridge and they made quick contact for us to pick up before we left Reefton

Tranquility

Nothing

From the moment we arrived I was greeted with a nice friendly smile. Room was basic,but that's what I paid for was comfortable and clean.

We ate out for breakfast - coffee and a bun

It looks a bit bland on the outside but otherwise great

Didn't have breakfast

Enjoyed our stay

the accommodation block at the rear of the hotel where all the bedrooms are is purpose built , clean and modern BUT oh so very cramped!, what were they thinking when they built this? one room with a double bed and a single bed at the side and 1 easy chair and 1 small office type was just too cramped. There was a kettle and a toaster in the room on a small sideboard with a few plates to use to make some toast but trying to prepare anything more would have been impossible, it would be ok for 1 person on their own perhaps but any more than that there was just insufficient space. The sink in the small bathroom was about half normal size and of little use to wash anything in. An expensive stay in a very poorly designed unit, not good at all, we will not be returning

The top things were Location friendly staff great meals

The price very overpriced for what you got! units need updating . mould on all the drapes. bed covers stained and dated. having to fill jug with a cup from bathroom. no smoke alarms in some of our rooms. some units toilet noisy throughout night

Right in town had meals and accommodation

The town Could do with another E V charging station

Staff, went the xtra mile. Beautiful food👍

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