Champers Motor Inn

3.5 star property

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Exterior
Studio
Executive Suite
One Bedroom | Private kitchenette
Terrace/patio

Reviews

7.0 out of 10
Good

Popular amenities

  • Room service
  • Housekeeping
  • Laundry
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi
  • Business services

Explore the area

Map
6-10 Pharazyn Street, Lower Hutt, 5010
  • Interislander Ferry Terminal
    ‪9 min drive‬
  • Sky Stadium
    ‪10 min drive‬
  • Te Papa
    ‪13 min drive‬
  • Wellington (WLG-Wellington Intl.)
    ‪21 min drive‬

Room options

Two Bedroom

  • 68 sq m
  • Sleeps 5
  • 1 King Bed and 3 Twin Beds

One Bedroom

  • 38 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Bed

Executive Suite

  • 54 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Bed

Studio

  • 28 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

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About the area

Lower Hutt

With a stay at Champers Motor Inn in Lower Hutt (Melling), you'll be a 2-minute drive from Dowse Art Museum and 11 minutes from Interislander Ferry Terminal. .This motel is 8.4 mi (13.5 km) from Sky Stadium and 9.1 mi (14.7 km) from Victoria University of Wellington.

What's nearby

  • Petone Foreshore - 4 min drive - 3.3 km
  • Interislander Ferry Terminal - 9 min drive - 12.5 km
  • Sky Stadium - 10 min drive - 13.6 km
  • Cuba Street Mall - 12 min drive - 16.1 km
  • Te Papa - 13 min drive - 16.5 km

Getting around

  • Lower Western Hutt Station - 9 min walk
  • Wellington Intl. Airport (WLG) - 28 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪St Pierre's Sushi - ‬17 min walk
  • ‪Tῡtaki Cafe - ‬15 min walk
  • ‪Sungai Wang Malaysian Restaurant - ‬17 min walk
  • ‪Little Theatre - ‬12 min walk
  • ‪The Crooked Elm - ‬15 min walk

About this property

Champers Motor Inn

Suburban motel in Lower Hutt with free parking
Champers Motor Inn offers 24 accommodations with hair dryers and irons/ironing boards. 32-inch LCD televisions come with premium satellite channels.

Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. Additionally, rooms include complimentary toiletries and fans. Change of towels and change of bedsheets can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Stay in one of 24 guestrooms featuring LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as desks and electric kettles.
Take in the views from a terrace and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access and tour/ticket assistance.
Take advantage of the motel's room service (during limited hours).
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, luggage storage, and laundry facilities. Free self parking is available onsite.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • Free self parking on site
  • Limited on-site parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking available

Family friendly

  • Cot (surcharge)
  • Highchair
  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage

Guest services

  • Change of bedsheets (on request)
  • Change of towels on request
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Tour and ticket assistance

Business services

  • Meeting room

Outdoors

  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Upper floors accessible by stairs only
  • Wheelchair accessible (may have limitations)
  • Wheelchair-accessible parking
  • Wheelchair-accessible path of travel

More

  • Banquet hall
  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided
  • Blackout drapes
  • Cot (surcharge)

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shampoo
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • 32-inch LCD TV with premium satellite channels

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle
  • Limited room service
  • Tea bags/instant coffee

More

  • Desk
  • Fan
  • Heating
  • Iron/ironing board
  • Phone

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: 9:00 PM
Late check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10 AM

Special check-in instructions

The property charges 3.5 percent for credit card payments
The front desk is open Monday - Friday (7:00 AM - 9:00 PM) and Saturday - Sunday (8:00 AM - 9:00 PM)
Guests must contact the property in advance for check-in instructions; front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
To make arrangements for check-in please contact the property at least 48 hours before arrival using the information on the booking confirmation
If you are planning to arrive after 9:00 PM please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed (service animals are welcome, and are exempt from fees)

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are available for NZD 20.0 per night

Payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Crib (infant bed) fee: NZD 20.0 per night
  • Credit card charges are subject to a surcharge of 3.5 percent

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards and cash
Safety features at this property include a smoke detector

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

National rating

For the benefit of our customers, we have provided a rating based on our rating system.

Property is also known as

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Champers Motor Inn Reviews

Reviews

7.0

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 57 out of 219 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 63 out of 219 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 51 out of 219 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 25 out of 219 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 23 out of 219 reviews

7.4/10

Cleanliness

7.4/10

Staff & service

6.4/10

Amenities

6.8/10

Property conditions & facilities

5.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Donna

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Was good for 1 night stay. King size bed was comfortable. Room was spacious & clean. Shower door did not fully close, fridge door may need a new seal? Good value for money.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Robert

Travelled with family
Perfectly adequate as a stop over for the Picton Ferry
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Kathryn

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service

Ok for price, just needs a few things.

Office is not manned, Need to call and then they get someone to come see you. The unit we stayed in was tidy, but quite old. The stair and doors squeaked quite loudly. No Cutting board, only one small dull cutting knife, no vegetable peeler, no grater. Had free washing machine, and there was some washing powder there. One dryer did not work (discovered this when i returned 40 mins later. the other one did work. Had issue using Netflix on the TV the 3rd and 4th night (own account), but had worked first couple nights.
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2025

6/10 Okay

SamandJenny

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities
Had minor trouble with key collection box but nice assistance when called. Really only there a few hours so room was adequate.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Stephen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2025

2/10 Terrible

Nancy

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2025

6/10 Okay

Peter

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Although the rooms were large enough and clean. It was scruffy with some peeling paint and edges of the wall paper, the bath tub had no taps and was unusable, the shower door did not close fully and no holders for soaps and shampoos and had to use the floor. doors either were very tight to close and open or blew open with the wind. I believe the accommodation is over priced for what you get.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2025

8/10 Good

Keith

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Convenient to where we needed to go
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

2/10 Terrible

Paul

Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2025

4/10 Poor

Janice

Travelled with group
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
No table,one chair that was ripped. No smoke alarms. No one at reception. TV always had interference. Mould around the bath. However the cleaner went out of his way to give clean towels and top up tea and coffee.
Stayed 5 nights in Feb 2025

6/10 Okay

Vivienne

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
Noisy bathroom fan.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

mukesh

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

4/10 Poor

Andrew

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
At the time of booking, I wasn't informed I had to call the staff to obtain the room key and the WiFi password until I arrived onsite. Could have communicated that better. The room wasn't exactly clean/tidy either.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Anthony

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Adequate for what we required but missing a kitchen sink.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

6/10 Okay

Diane

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Did not expect to see at least four shopping trundlers and a couple of road cones out of our window on the property. Property needs a general update. Staff friendly. Conviently situated, a walk to town and transport.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Minako

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Plenty of parking space, handy location, nice staff, spacious room. Wifi was bad connection.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025

6/10 Okay

Reginald Dennis

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room was shabby , light fittings hang off the ceiling bed side lamps didnt work, TV keep disconnecting and having to reset all the time , when we arrived no one at reception lucky to find the cleaner to get the key, room smelt awful when we walked in as thought the carpets had been cleaned then closed up sorry but we will not be back
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Marie

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Close to multiple food options and not to far from the ferry.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

4/10 Poor

Rebecca

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was very dirty, there was no one at reception, the phone number to ring didn't answer twice. Very disappointed with our stay.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2024

2/10 Terrible

isapela

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Terrible customer service, no fan, room was not clean, the smell was disguisting, sheets were not cleaned. Receptionist was rude of the phone hanged up when i didnt finished talking on the phone. Requested for a room change but they said they will send their cleaner to clean the room and check if we need a room change or not. They do not care about customers, I would never book with them again. Outdated worn out.
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2025

4/10 Poor

Benjamin

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

An Emergency Shelter more than Motel

Shouldn't be on this website. It's a motel used for emergency accommodation, so a very transient and unomfortable feeling from occupants. The owners are never at the front desk. They make you call a mobile and wait ages. They have a permanent note on the office window saying "Due to a staff shortage emergency..." They act like they dont understand English, when clearly they do. It is clean, but thats its only redeeming feature.
Stayed 8 nights in Jan 2025

4/10 Poor

Corey

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Rained at night and there is a break in the gutter above room 5 from the second floor, couldn't sleep while a fountain of water was hitting the ground right beside my room window all night. Room was clean and tidy.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

2/10 Terrible

Lette

Travelled with family and small children
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Travellers: 3adults toddler. This place shouldn't be operating at all. The place was beautiful from the outside and got to enjoy the sunset from the balcony but we had so many ongoing issues. Felt like we were put in a dungeon. The appliances weren't working as the plug wasnt working so we had to get an extension chord and multi- plug to use another plug. The towels were damped and had brown wet stains on it so we asked the reception but she only gave one and saying "we only have one clean towel left, all our towels are dirty". The hot shower ran out after one person used it for 5mins. There were cobwebs on the ceiling and on the curtains. The curtains in the room we couldn't open up. The side table lamp wasnt working. The oven and stove was very filthy with dirt and left over old crumbs on it. The heater in the room was broken. We also had a couple of flees biting us around the motel. I cannot believe how filthy this place is. We were in Room 22 right in the corner back. The worst part was, the reception lady kept saying she will report it as she can't do much about it as shes covering for her friend whos been away for a month and wont be back until another month. We confronted her as we thought it was dodgy as we needed to speak to a manager or someone else the next day but she said no one works there except her friend whos overseas and shes not getting paid to help her friend look after the motel. This is very dodgy business. Overall we enjoyed our family company
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025

4/10 Poor

Pamela

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Advert for property said it had a restaurant and bar which was not the case.Arrived, phoned reception as not open. Person arrived and handed me a key. I had to ask where our room was. Inside room, rubbish bin hadnt been emptied from previous stayers, 1 towel on bed, other towel was in bathroom (used). Toilet cistern dripped all night.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2025

6/10 Okay

Vanessa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Bath cold water didn't work showe door couldn't close properly Was no face cloths
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025