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motel features roomy suites, lavish linen, leather chairs, dark timbers and plenty of marble
and stone - classy stuff.
Kembali B&B
( 06-347 1727;
www.bnb.co.nz/kembali.html
; 26 Taranaki St, St Johns Hill; s/d incl breakfast from $110/125)
Up
on leafy St Johns Hill on the way to Taranaki, this home-spun B&B has two private up-
stairs guest rooms sleeping four, available on an exclusive-use basis. It's a sedate place
overlooking some wetlands, all achirp with tuis, pukekos and native whistling frogs.
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151 on London Motel
( 0800 151 566, 06-345 8668;
www.151onlondon.co.nz
;
151 London St; d $115-160, apt $200-280; )
This
five-year-old, snappy-looking spaceship of a motel wins plenty of fans with its architec-
tural angles, quality carpets and linen, natty lime/silver/black colour scheme and big TVs.
At the top of the price tree are some excellent upstairs/downstairs apartment-style units
sleeping six: about as ritzy as Whanganui accommodation gets.
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Siena Motor Lodge
( 06-345 9009, 0800 888 802;
www.siena.co.nz
;
335 Victoria Ave; d $130-160; )
Aiming for Tuscany
but hitting Taranaki, the compact rooms here are four-star and spotless. Business travellers
enjoy double glazing, a DVD library, gym passes, heated towel rails, coffee plungers and
real coffee.
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Riverview Motel
( 06-345 2888, 0800 102 001;
www.wanganuimotels.co.nz
;
14 Somme Pde; d $98-150; )
Take your pick
from one of 10 older-but-updated kitchenette units in the main block, or the five spa suites
out the back. Super-clean, affordable and central, with a charming Irish host.
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Grand Hotel
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(
0800 843 472, 06-345 0955;
www.thegrandhotel.co.nz
;
cnr St Hill & Guyton Sts; s/d/ste from $79/99/130;
you can't face another soulless motel room, rooms at this stately old-school Whanganui
survivor (built 1927) have a bit more personality (and all have bathrooms). Singles and
