In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Big glass windows with views out to the marina, king-size beds and up-to-the-minute hi-tech treats such as flatscreen TVs, digital audio and podcasts give Ohtel's bedrooms an edgy, urban feel. Bathrooms up the luxe factor, with sexily sized two-person baths, large showers, underfloor heating and marble floors (suites include body jets in showers), as well as local Kiwi toiletries and vibrant textiles. We love the mid-20th-century vintage design classics scattered throughout, with furniture, ceramics and clocks drawn from the 1950s and 1960s for a quirky retro vibe. Personally collected by the owner, they span cult Scandinavian and international names, including pieces by Eames, Arne Jacobsen, Borge Mogensen, Finn Juhl, Hans J Wegner, Nanna Ditzel, Vladimir Kagan and G-Plan, as well as cult Australasian labels such as Parker Furniture, chairs by Grant Featherston and ceramics by Crown Lynn. Suites 6 (fresh green decor) and 9 (rich brown) are larger with generous size beds, fab freestanding baths and front-facing balconies with great views over Wellington's cityscape, including Waitangi Park, the inner harbour and CBD. If you prefer a corner bath, ask for one of the rooms at the back of the hotel.
- Packing tips
- Binoculars for looking out to sea. Views from bedrooms include Chaffers Marina, Waitangi Park, the harbour and CBD, and look especially magical at night.
- Also
- In-room beauty and spa treatment including massage are available on request, and Ohtel offers a wellness room with infrared sauna and cardio exercise equipment. Welcoming touches elsewhere include plants in rooms, fresh fruit and flowers in the lobby and daily local papers.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- Complimentary Continental buffet breakfast for two
- Current special offer
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Ohtel
Wellington, New Zealand[view map]
- Style
- Mid-Century modern
- Setting
- Happening harbourside
What do you get when you combine a happening harbourside location, a cool concrete cliffside building, sexy bathrooms and funky vintage-modern interiors? Ohtel, Wellington's hippest boutique hotel in the heart of New Zealand's North Island capital. We love its owner's handpicked collection of 1950s and 1960s design classics teamed with local accessories and thoughtful details.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 10, including two suites.
- Rates
- NZ$465–NZ$565, including free local calls, WiFi in the hotel lobby and tax at 12.5 per cent. Breakfast, NZ$25 a person.
- Check-out
- 10am, but flexible subject to availability for no extra cost. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
- Facilities
- Gym, CD library, concierge, WiFi in lobby. In rooms: flatscreen LCD TV, Sky channels, free broadband, preloaded iPod and dock, minibar, Evolu toiletries, laptop-size safe, air conditioning.
- Eco-friendly
- Ohtel's hot water is solar-powered, and it's cleaning products are eco-friendly. The hotel also donates leftover soaps and food to a local shelter. Staff can call you a hybrid taxi for getting around town in enviro-friendly style.
- Also
- Smoking is permitted on Ohtel's exterior decks. Pets aren't allowed. Ohtel can arrange taxi transfers to the hotel from Wellington International Airport, 15 minutes' drive away, for NZ$45 one way.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- The hotel doesn't have an in-house restaurant, but a simple Cool or Hot breakfast (available from 7am to 11am), coffee, cakes, ice cream and light meals are served in the small ground-floor lobby at the front of the property, which is also home to the bar. Decor is quirky vintage, fitting the hotel's modern-retro mood. Staff can also give you the lowdown on the many high-end and more casual restaurants and bars nearby.
- Dress code
- Team designer with Op Shop vintage to channel Ohtel's contemporary-meets-retro vibe.
- Top table
- Othel can prepare an intimate dinner for up to eight in the lobby area, warmed by a gas fire, or serve you a meal in your suite.
- Last orders
- Lobby menu light meals are served from 4pm till around 9pm. Drinks keep coming in the bar until 10pm.
- Room service
- Available from 8am to 9pm, with a menu of light meals, snacks and platters. Ohtel can also provide a picnic basket to go.
- Hotel bar
- The sophisticated lobby bar serves up drinks from midday until 10pm, along with a quirky mix of iTunes (there's over 5,000 songs on the playlist, from funk to electronic, which you can also access in your room). If guests want to stay up drinking later staff will never close the bar, but well-stocked minibars mean you won't go thirsty back in your room.
Also worth knowing
Smith Members offer
Complimentary Continental buffet breakfast for two
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Ohtel
66 Oriental Parade
Wellington
New Zealand
6011
