Located on the water's edge, Portside Hotel - Heritage Boutique Collection boasts accommodation with a private balcony and views of the harbour or Gisborne city.
Captain Cook Motor Lodge offers modern ground-floor studios and apartments with free Wi-Fi access. Free on-site parking is available. All rooms offer a TV with over 50 cable channels.
James
New Zealand
Room was nice, clean and warm and the staff were very friendly and helpful. Good location to town.
Waikanae Beach TOP 10 Holiday Park is located in the heart of Gisborne and features a refurbished outdoor pool. It offers a range of accommodation options with free on-site parking.
Offering free unlimited WiFi, Motel Oasis is just 5 minutes’ drive from the famous Wainui Surf Beach and the city of Gisborne.
Karaitiana
New Zealand
A awesome stay with awesome host as usual 😊 made a late booking arriving late to a warn room thanks for preheating our room before we arrived my #1 place to stay in Gizzy
Set in Gisborne, La Frontiere Boutique Accommodation offers accommodation with a private pool, a patio and pool views. The property has garden and inner courtyard views.
Featuring a garden, Cedar House is located in Gisborne. This 4-star bed and breakfast offers free WiFi. All guest rooms at the bed and breakfast come with a seating area and a flat-screen TV.
Anton
Australia
The rooms are so spacious and the whole place is so well fit out and finished.
Featuring an outdoor pool, Villa Shemshi offers accommodation in Gisborne. Complimentary WiFi is provided. Some units have a dining area and/or a patio.
Colin
New Zealand
Lee is a very friendly host. Villa Shemshi is remotely situated on a farm and is lovely and quiet. My room was well supplied with everything I needed.
The river view, wharf view in the evening was gorgeous.
The river view, wharf view in the evening was gorgeous. The walkway and boardwalk are a desirable, peaceful place to walk. The beach was the highlight of our visit as well as the farmers market. We preferred the beautiful fresh food from the farmers market opposed to take aways and restaurants we've dined at previously. We ate at a variety of cafes, restaurants and take aways. Without naming them we'll definitely be buying fresh produce and using the BBQ provided at our motel or available at Midway beach to cook our own steak served with fresh local produce, including fine wine, bread and honey. It's easy to get around Gisborne, but be aware of hazardous drivers and pedestrians. On our next visit we will avoid over spending trying to source excitable and palatable cuisine including takeaways.
Jacinda
New Zealand
10
Scored 10
Full of character with many 19th c buildings still surviving...
Full of character with many 19th c buildings still surviving. Lovely beaches east and west with excellent access. Strong Maori influence including Cook's landing interpretations. City easy to access, with outrageous parking charges made until midnight on Saturday night! With accommodation, restaurant, gifts, and fuel costs spent amounting to NZ$2000 over three nights of our stay... give us a break
jolly robert
United Kingdom
6.0
Scored 6.0
There are better places to visit that are much less...
There are better places to visit that are much less difficult to travel to than Gisborne, we went because we had never been before so it was good to see the place but wouldn’t go to the trouble to go back.
Roadworks from Napier to Gisborne were many with many stoppages. Long slow winding road. Gisborne to Whakatane however was a very pleasant very scenic drive starting off with Gisborne's horticulture then farmland then through a native forested river gorge. Gisborne's main retail strip looks great and is well laid out, the palm trees set it off so well on a sunny day. The famous Eastwoodhill Arboretum was a bit of a let down, it was a big reason we finally decided to add Gisborne to our trip however it didn’t live up to the online pictures and information we saw of it. Basically it’s just hilly farmland heavily planted out sporadically with various trees and riddled with many tracks colour coded but good luck trying to completely follow a particular track as some markers weren’t there at various intersections. It’s nice for a bit of a hilly tree walk but there is nothing particularly organised or grand about the plantings that looks anything like you see of tree plantings in various Botanical Gardens.
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Anonymous
10
Scored 10
My first time visit to gisborne.
My first time visit to gisborne. Town centre is not big, but it was interesting. I enjoyed the botanical gardens and small museum during my visit. My visit was the middle of winter, but still enjoyable.
Sue
New Zealand
6.0
Scored 6.0
I found the Cook Landing Reserve to be underwhelming, It...
I found the Cook Landing Reserve to be underwhelming, It was disappointing in that there was not much about Captain Cook at the site, just gourds.
The Gisborne Museum was worth a visit.
The beaches would have been lovely if not for cyclone Hale.
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Anonymous
4.0
Scored 4.0
The service is not good enough for one night stay...we ask...
The service is not good enough for one night stay...we ask for milk for cup of tea in the evening but the receptionist said, the housekeeper is going to bring for us...waiting for the evening no one is turned up even in the morning when we left...
Good breakfast with sufficient supplies. Great location very close to the city and most of the attractions/restaurants etc.
Very friendly hosts Herman and Nadene. Their recommendations helped us greatly to quickly jump on exploring attractions in Gisborne easily. We stayed 3 nights and feel could spend easily up to 4 to 5 nights in Gisborne as there are plenty of places to visit from good beaches, rivers, parks, walks, museum etc.
We were staying at a very unidentified number of days due to the reason we were in Gisborne and our hosts were really accommodating, allowing us to stay through x2 extensions until they were fully booked. Having free laundry facilities was a real surprise, I hadn't struck that before in any motel. We went through our stay through the Cyclone and we felt safe at all times.
EVERYTHING! 😊 it was just PERFECT! 😊 Loved the pool view the feeling of just being there it was so good especially getting away for some mind space 😊 ILOVED IT! Definitely gonna book again in the future & stay for more than 1 night. ILOVE BEING AT THE EMERALD HOTEL ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO BE! 😊
Have always booked at Captain Cook out of any motor lodge in Gisborne this place has been the go to for me and all my family that I have brought along on my journey to Gisborne and by far is the best place to stay the staff are so lovely here 💛💚💛 and is close to town and the beach ⛱️
Super helpful at very last minute as I was out of a hotel suddenly as the one I was supposed to stay at cancelled the evening of my arrival. Oasis had a wedding tht weekend and allowed us to stay despite having blocked off some rooms which was really, really appreciated.
From our first step into the hotel we loved it , the patio views with our breakfast was amazing and the cleanliness of our room was exceptional, new towels and whatever else we needed freshly done every morning, thank yous so very much for the beautiful stay
The friendliness of the owner, when we arrived I asked where would be a good place to have dinner he mentioned a couple of restaurants but later I found he had printed off all the great places with addresses where we could get a great meal, great service.
Our preferred accommodation in Gisborne. Central with short walk to CBD and restaurants. Good views over port. Quiet road and good free on-site parking. Modern, comfortable and exceptionally clean. Very pleasant and accommodating staff. Very good value.
This place was perfect for my one night stay in Gisborne. Close to the beach, private, super clean and fresh, with a very comfy bed. Breakfast was included. Everything you need for a 'hotel' stay. A lovely host + such good value for money.
Thankyou Neerja. Quiet, cozy room with spare room, kitchenette and bathroom. Had everything we needed even a car hire, for outings. Saturday market and museums within 5mins walk with a bridge walkway to town also.
I loved that they gave 2 complimentary water bottles an 2 packs of cookies in the coffee bar in all my hotel stays that was the first time I’ve come across that big thumbs up from me an my little family
Spacious, clean, quiet and comfortable. Great value for money. We've stayed in 8 big chain hotels whilst travelling around NZ and this is the best accommodation we've had.
We have seen several New Zealand motels on our road trip so far, and this was definitely one of our favorites. Well maintained and very clean. Recommended!
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