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Reviews of Bella Vista Motel Oamaru

4 out of 5
Bella Vista Motel Oamaru
206 Thames Street, Oamaru

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 158 out of 342 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 130 out of 342 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 39 out of 342 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 14 out of 342 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 342 reviews" "

9.2/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Mandy

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Neat and tidy motel with nice staff. Nothing fancy but Oamaru is well worth visiting.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Patrick

Centre of town to restaurants,coffee shops, and to a few long walks to the old town and hilltops with great views. The property had most requirements for me, except the news channels on TV, as in bbc world news and the fox and cnn channels, and free movie channels.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

Yuming

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The room too small,it’s hard for two people cross to each other….not recommended
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024
Response from B.V. reservations on 27 Jan 2024
We are sorry to hear your experience, perhaps next time you would like to try and book one of our larger studios.

10/10 Excellent

Val

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice well appointed studio for short stay
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Nadine

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Welcome Staff was excellent (Nancy was lovely)!! It was the perfect place for a ‘home’ base while we explored the area.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

Philip, Northcote Point

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Very small room and very much overpriced for what it is
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Kevin

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room was spacious & comfortable. Good value for money.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

6/10 Okay

Kirsty

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
We've stayed at a few Bella Vista's this was very pricey for a tiny room. Needs money spent on dates rooms for the price.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

6/10 Okay

dan

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
Nothing great, nothing terrible. Just blah. Would look for another place when visiting Oamaru again.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

4/10 Poor

Brenda

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This was the most expensive of the acccomodations we booked, and the worst. So we will not be using any of their motels
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sabine

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly staff and the room was perfectly set.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

Paul

Travelled with family and small children, Travelled with pets
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great place to take a break whilst on a long drive thru the South. Conveniently located next to MacDonalds. Great for our kids and dog. The proprietor has a very friendly son.

10/10 Excellent

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

Karen

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

10/10 Excellent

Jeongran

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Recommend to stay
Clean and spacious sized room. Easy to find. As it's not the middle of the town, you need to walk a bit to access the town. Generally good place to stay as it's quite. The host also very friendly.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

8/10 Good

stephen

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2022

8/10 Good

Emma

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sharon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Clean tidy friendly check in
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2022
Response from BV Oamaru on 11 Jan 2022
We are glad you enjoyed your stay and look forward to hosting you again soon.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location was good ...not too far from anywhere
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021
Response from Bella Vista Motel Oamaru on 29 Jul 2021
Thank you for reviewing your stay, we look forward to hosting you again soon.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Property is conveniently locate with 10 minutes to centre of town and Countdown supermarket. Down side is that the kitchen is very poorly lit around cooking area and everything is stored underbenchwhich for an olde r person is difficult to see or get down to rummage through. Motel is quite date and could do with a refresh. Bed is comfortable and area is very quiet although located on main street
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2021

4/10 Poor

Linsay

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Very small rooms for the price
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2021
Response from BV Oamaru on 8 Apr 2021
our rooms sizes are listed in the description, and upgrades are offered on a regular basis subject to availability, should you require a larger room, perhaps try our Superior studios the next time you book to stay?

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It’s an easy and convenient place to stay in Oamaru
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2021

8/10 Good

Sandra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2020

10/10 Excellent

Colleen, Kaiapoi

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very accessible to a variety of food outlets. Also very easy to drive in and out of the complex. Plenty of car parking space
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2020

6/10 Okay

Malcolm

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Dissapointing
Room was a lot smaller than the photo I booked from. This had table chairs and a kitchen. THINGS NEED FIXING. Tap in bathroom that floppy it’s almost falling off. Notice says turn extractor fan on prior to shower. Three switches in ablution area none make the fan operate. All in all disappointing , a pity as I have booked teams into Bella Vista at Kaikoura & Westport with good feed back.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020

10/10 Excellent

Daryl, Te Anau

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The room was clean and well appointed. The motel is close to town and a short walk to the cbd.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2020
Response from Bella Vista Oamaru on 12 Jul 2020
Thank you for reviewing your stay, we hope to see you again soon.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Fantastic place to stay. Very clean and tidy and quiet.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2020
Response from Bella Vista Oamaru on 12 Jul 2020
Thank you for reviewing your stay, we look forward to seeing you again soon

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Just as described close to town with plenty of restaurants nearby walking distance of many of the attractions
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
This hotel is just average and needs to be renovated.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

8/10 Good

Bernadette

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
a great place to stay. Staff were friendly. It was close to supermarkets and takeaways.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Staff & service
The property was ok. However, when we checked in they were trying to charge me extra for my 4 year old daughter. According to them she should have been charged for an adult rate. After I showed the receptionist the Expedia booking confirmation with all the T&Cs they didn’t asked me for any additional fee.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great shower, small room but ok for one person. Comfortable bed.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice n clean place. Comfortable stay. Near to food.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Brad

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Mark

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Late check-in no hassle
Booked late and hosts were very accommodating. Rang me and said they would keep reception open until I arrived. Room was all ready and warm.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Close proximity to the old part of town and the penguins
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
When we checked in I was told we were given an upgraded room. It was room 1 ground floor right next to McDonald drive thru. And it's open 24 hours. Bathroom smelled like sewer gas. Between the smell and exhaust frkm cars it was horrible.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019
Response from Bella Vista Oamaru on 27 Oct 2019
It is unfortunate that you did not enjoy your stay even after you were offered an upgrade at no extra charge from our compact studio to our accessible superior studio. McDonalds only operate till 10pm and there were no racers recorded on the main road nor is your unit near the main road. Either way, we tried to accommodate your stay to the best we could.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
1) Room was small and gloomy, under a staircase, VERY UNLIKE other Bella Vistas. Badly done paint touch up in small bathroom. 2) No sink in kitchen area - just a plastic collapsible bowl as in a Third World country! 3) VERY POOR WIFI, we need it for both work and leisure, so will not stay again. NOTE:staff and cleaning both excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019
Response from Bella Vista Oamaru. on 19 Oct 2019
Sorry you did not enjoy your stay, the compact studios throughout Bella vista motels are of the same specs, perhaps try our superior studios for a better experience. As for the WiFi, we recognized this issue within 10 minutes of this occurring and took action to rectified this issue before it was reported by testing our speed and restarting our devices. This was then monitored closely and we did not have any further issues recorded since.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved studio 8. This will be our room of choice when visiting Alex on the future. Great people, great place. Thanks
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019
Response from Bella Vista Oamaru on 19 Oct 2019
we are so glad you enjoyed your stay and look forward to seeing you again soon

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly staff clean unit great location quiet.very accommodating as we were on a motorcycle security was important
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019
Response from Bella Vista Oamaru on 6 Oct 2019
Thank you for reviewing your stay, we look forward to seeing you again soon and that was a really nice bike!

10/10 Excellent

Amy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We will be back
Absolutely beautiful loved it thanks so much!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019
Response from Bella Vista Oamaru on 6 Oct 2019
Thank you for your review, we look forward to seeing you again soon.