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Reviews of Alpine Motel

2.5 out of 5
Alpine Motel
285 Thames Street, Oamaru

Reviews

8.2

Very Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 63 out of 185 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 79 out of 185 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 32 out of 185 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 8 out of 185 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 185 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

7.8/10

Amenities

7.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Neil

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Large comfortable room. Cleanliness could have been better
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024
Response from D on Apr 14, 2024
Thank you for your comments

6/10 Okay

Sunil

Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024
Response from D on Apr 1, 2024
Thanks

8/10 Good

Shirley

It was good value for the price
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from D on Mar 3, 2024
Thank you for your comments

8/10 Good

Lesley

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Didn't like all the traffic noise. Comfortable beds. Coffee plunger with coffee provided.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from D on Feb 27, 2024
Thanks for your comments

10/10 Excellent

Julie

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
An older style property ,but don't let that fool you. A beautiful kept room, warm n comfortable bed. Everything we needed to relax. Wonderful staff, friendly n great places to visit so close by. Highly recommend n we will certainly be back n recommending to all our family n friends.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024
Response from d on Feb 26, 2024
Thank you for your comments

10/10 Excellent

Tessa

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great place to stay. We were able to check in earlier than we had selected when booking and the staff were absolutely lovely.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from D on Feb 23, 2024
Thanks for your comments

8/10 Good

hilton

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Response from D on Feb 23, 2024
Thanks

10/10 Excellent

Davitt

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Clean , tidy, convienient
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024
Response from D on Feb 10, 2024
Thanks for your comments

2/10 Terrible

Chris

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Stayed at start of year and really good. This time it seemed to slip. Room not serviced on the second day. TV didn't work. Luckily had a tablet and stuff to do.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2023
Response from d on Dec 25, 2023
Thanks for your comments

10/10 Excellent

Kenneth, Russellville

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This was an excellent stay for us. The owner was super friendly, the room(#9) was a large area with a second bedroom, wifi worked well, the towels were good quality, and parking right outside the door. All the attributes we judge a hotel by were fantastic.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023
Response from d on Nov 29, 2023
Thank you so much for your comments

8/10 Good

cydney

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023
Response from d on Jan 30, 2024
Thank you

8/10 Good

Chris

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very good value for the price.Decor dated and sofas and chairs need a spruce up but everything else was very clean. The studio had everything you needed when self catering including a full oven and microwave. Walk in shower great for oldies.Two New Worlds and a Countdown within a short drive. Also KFC, Subway and Thai and Chinese takeaways.Sky TV. Excellent location. Short drive to to all Oamaru's features- blue penguin sanctuary, Victorian district, steam pink headquarters, breweries, cafes, restaurants and tourist type shops.Not to mention the iconic Oamaru Rainbow lolly factory and shop.Cheap as seconds! Recommend a meal at the iconic Criterion hotel in the Victorian district. Try Scott's black doris plum cider which is a speciality in this establishment. Great pizzas at Scotts brewery. Only 15km to Riverstone complex on main road to Timaru.Fantastic restaurant, gardens, castle and gift shops. Well worth a visit. The motel is positoned on the main highway with some road noise but double glazing meant this was not intrusive. Choose an upstairs room for nice views over to the hill and character houses and church buildings. Would stay here again.
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2023
Response from D on Oct 31, 2023
Thank you for your comments

10/10 Excellent

William

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Right on our way into town.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023
Response from d on Oct 7, 2023
Thank you

10/10 Excellent

Neil

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A regular stop for me when working in Oamaru - easy to access shopping and convenient location
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from d on Sep 24, 2023
Thanks for your comments

4/10 Poor

Sue

Traveled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff very good but room was dirty,dishes werent clean and wires exposed on plugs
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from d on Sep 20, 2023
Thanks for your comments

10/10 Excellent

Merv

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Friendly owner
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from d on Sep 21, 2023
Thank You

10/10 Excellent

Russell

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Just a well maintained property , obviously well run and up to date in all facets . I would stay there again if the need arose .
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from d on Sep 18, 2023
Thank you for your comments

10/10 Excellent

Sandra

Traveled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Had a lovely quiet stay, unit was warm on a cold night. Quick walk from lots of shops, takeaways, and Whitestone cheese factory shop
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from d on Sep 13, 2023
Thank you for your comments Regards Doris

4/10 Poor

Huan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Poor basin condition in bathroom.
Appreciate to install mixer for the basin as i cannot use either the individual hot or cold water during winter or early spring times.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from d on Sep 10, 2023
Thanks for your comments

8/10 Good

Les

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023
Response from d on Sep 7, 2023
Thank you

6/10 Okay

Mike

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023
Response from d on Aug 16, 2023
Thank you

6/10 Okay

ray

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023
Response from d on Jul 26, 2023
Thank you

8/10 Good

Judy

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We had one night, was very handy and good rate! Would definitely stay again and recommend to friends & family.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023
Response from d on Jun 25, 2023
Thank the comments

10/10 Excellent

Noeline

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very clean
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023
Response from d on Jun 25, 2023
Thanks for the comments

8/10 Good

Brent

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
1 night in Oamaru
Great value for money, easy parking, great bed
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023
Response from d on Jun 25, 2023
Thank you for the comments

8/10 Good

kerri

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Super friendly and helpful host
Stayed 1 night in May 2023
Response from d on Jun 2, 2023
Thanks for comments

8/10 Good

Ian

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Good clean motel with friendly helpful staff.
Stayed 1 night in May 2023
Response from d on May 17, 2023
Thank you for your comments

4/10 Poor

Bruce Ming, Fremont

Traveled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This is an old motel, its facilities are 80s. There are lots of things I don't like but I just name a few: the WiFi network is not working, only 6MB download speed and often on and off during my stay. The mattres is probably 30 years old and is too soft, we didn't have a good night sleep. Anyway, it's a bad choice for me to select this motel in Oamaru.
Stayed 1 night in May 2023
Response from d on May 11, 2023
Hi Bruce Thank you so much for your lovely comments and sorry you had an awful stay. As i was trying to tell you before you stormed off yesterday the WiFi was under control and the technician was here yesterday and upgraded the whole system. Once again thanks hope you enjoy the rest of your holiday

10/10 Excellent

Adrienne

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Conveniently close to the town centre. Quiet and very clean, comfortable, partially renovated unit.
Stayed 1 night in May 2023
Response from d on May 7, 2023
Thank you for your comments

10/10 Excellent

Moira

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very good for an older property
Stayed 1 night in May 2023
Response from d on May 7, 2023
Thank you for your comments

8/10 Good

Geoff

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
It suited our budget and it was nice and close to places of interest
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023
Response from d on Apr 19, 2023
Thanks for your comments

10/10 Excellent

Vincenzo

Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2023
Response from d on Apr 19, 2023
Thank you

2/10 Terrible

Heather

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023
Response from d on Apr 1, 2023
Thanks for score. Sorry you didn't enjoy your stay

10/10 Excellent

Megan

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Friendly welcome, clean room
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023
Response from d on Feb 26, 2023
Thank you for your comments

10/10 Excellent

ANTHONY

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Excellent nights stay, did exactly what we needed it to do.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023
Response from d on Feb 26, 2023
Thankyou for your comments

8/10 Good

Emily

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very convenient, on-site parking, good room with solid beds, dining options within walking distance, cheese factory within walking distance.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023
Response from d on Feb 26, 2023
Thank you for your comments

4/10 Poor

Verified traveler

Traveled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
The motel was quite old and dirty. There was bits of trash under the bed.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023
Response from d on Jan 17, 2023
Sorry about your bad experience

6/10 Okay

Kristin

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Manager was very friendly, beds were uncomfortable, easy walk to everything, a one night motel only.
Response from d on Dec 29, 2022
Thanks for your comments. Regards Doris

10/10 Excellent

Jacques

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The motel was convenient, with a good sonic isolation and appropriate equipment.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2022
Response from d on Dec 19, 2022
Thank you for your comments. Have a great Xmas and a Happy 2023

10/10 Excellent

janet

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Easy access to Highway 1. Very pleasant host who gave me helpful tourist tips
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022
Response from d on Nov 24, 2022
Thank you for your comments

8/10 Good

Wee Wee

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great. Many tv channels
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022
Response from d on Nov 24, 2022
Thanks for your comment. Doris

8/10 Good

James

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Older stile motel, clean ,comfortable.
Response from d on Nov 7, 2022
Thanks for your comment

10/10 Excellent

Tan

Traveled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Good to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022
Response from d on Oct 16, 2022
Thank you for your comments

8/10 Good

Neil

Business traveler
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
it was perfect for what I needed but just a bit too noisy with traffic on the highway
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2022
Response from D on Oct 9, 2022
Sorry about the traffic Some nights it's continuous Thank you for your comments

10/10 Excellent

Tania

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022

10/10 Excellent

Martin

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Naiuli

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Closer to everything shops restaurants kfc and the ocean.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022
Response from d on Sep 2, 2022
Thank you for your comments. Doris

8/10 Good

Beverley

Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Angela

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Oawsum
Perfectly located, well maintained, clean and tidy unit. Friendly check in and good advice on places to dine. Would recommend to friends and stay there again myself 🙂
Stayed 1 night in May 2022
Response from D on May 15, 2022
Thanks for your comments. D

6/10 Okay

Mavis

Traveled with group
Liked: Staff & service
Very old and worn. Needs updating.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2021
Response from d on Dec 4, 2021
Thanks for your comment