Visit Paihia

I'm a regular visitor to Paihia. I love the atmosphere - small town, but friendly and charming with lots of history. There's a good range of restaurants, bars and cafés to suit all budgets. Heaps of activities, mostly involving the beach and islands, but also some great land based things to explore. The town is small enough to walk everywhere, and there's plenty of accommodation right in town or in walking distance, plus there are ferry adventures and trips around the area, so there's so much to do even without needing to drive around. The trip on the ferry over to Russell is a must.

JMarjoram New Zealand

I've always liked paihia, beautiful scenery My best friend and I used to go over on weekends at times spend in the cafes and pubs, catch the ferry to Russell have a couple beers. I had my first tattoo in Russell a few years back Had a blast. Thanks paihia will be back next time with husband

Agnes

Such a lovely relaxing little town with very helpful and friendly people. Loved the Ferry departures being so frequent and enjoyed a trip to Russell. We enjoyed a couple of yummy meals. Fish & chips at the Paihia Fish & Chips and an amazing lamb shank on mash at the Crafty Local. Wish we had another day to enjoy Paihia.

Russell Australia

Paihia - if you're not going on the cruises and tours - doesn't have a lot to offer visitors. And, to top it off, most of the shops were shut. We stayed 2 nights. One night would have been plenty of time to see everything.

It is a great place to visit, the hole in the rock tour is a great way to spend a day, we ate at the Tipsy Oyster and the oysters were divine the rest of the food was ho-hum, the staff were very attentive though, also ate from a local chippy shop and that was great, everything was within walking distance

phil New Zealand

I would not recommend Paihia Resort Hotel.Greeted by a friendly staff member.After seeing my room ,and viewing the area and pool we were very disappointed. My children were most disappointed as the pool was dirty.The shower and bathroom wasn’t cleaned very well.Our room had a bad damp odour.The pool was not cleaned. The best thing about the room was the free wifi. The photos in Booking.com and the reviews were misleading.Very disappointing.My family and I travelled along way just to be so disappointed.Mostly as we expected what we saw in Booking.com. The staff were very nice.

Weke Australia