The Grand Hotel



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Welcome to The Grand Hotel, your Whanganui “home away from home.” The Grand Hotel aims to make your visit as relaxing and enjoyable as possible, which is why so many guests continue to come back year after year.
For those interested in checking out popular landmarks while visiting Whanganui, The Grand Hotel is located a short distance from St Mary's Catholic Church (0.2 mi) and St Paul Putiki Church (1.0 mi).
Rooms at The Grand Hotel offer a flat screen TV and a refrigerator providing exceptional comfort and convenience, and guests can go online with free wifi.
24 hour front desk, room service, and a coffee shop are some of the conveniences offered at this hotel. Free breakfast will also help to make your stay even more special. If you are driving to The Grand Hotel, free parking is available.
While in Whanganui be sure to experience local bento favourites at Japanese Kitchen WA.
Should time allow, Durie Hill Elevator, Kowhai Park, and New Zealand Glassworks are some popular attractions that are within walking distance.
The Grand Hotel puts the best of Whanganui at your fingertips, making your stay both relaxing and enjoyable.
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The Grand is an impressive building in a lovely town full of character.
The room was OK for the cost but more than a little TLC is definitely needed.
Although the food at the popular and atmospheric Irish Pub restaurant was simply competent, it shone on the steak sauces (especially the pepper sauce) and a truly extraordinary deep dish apple pie, which looked like one grandma had crafted with love, sultanas, cinnamon and about four apples per gigantic slice.
On the negative side: cleanliness. From the cigarette butt-filled pasta sauce jar on the balcony, and the hair in the shower drain, to the carpets in the rooms and the hallways which don’t appear to have been vacuumed since the 1990s (let alone a deep clean) this is an establishment which could learn that antique doesn’t need to mean dirty. The view from the balcony of the car park was pretty grimy too. Also, the free breakfast was truly sad - muesli, Weetbix and tinned fruit with white bread toast, vegemite, marmalade and raspberry jam sachets ... Better to leave out the breakfast (and lower the price even further).

The room was reasonably comfortable but dated and overpriced with a big grubby handprint left on the mirror! Never again though I wouldve loved to have experienced the hotel in its heyday.
Room noisy, only a door onto shared balcony that seems too unsafe to stand on, no windows to crack, if you opened the door the noise from outside at night made it impossible to sleep. Took 7 mins for hot water to start flowing in shower. Only 1 power point in corner behind bed so basically useless. Lugged bags up stairs because we didn’t trust the lift.
Curtains so thin they provided zero darkness



Front door was locked when we arrived. After the 3rd try at ringing the number displayed on the front door, a man answered my call and said 'just a minute' then hung up on me. Eventually a man came and opened the front door. He didn't speak to us during the check in process, then proceeded to take us to a room with 1 double bed, even though I had paid the extra for 2 separate beds for myself and my adolescent son.
The room was dirty, the wallpaper had large tears in it, and the 'furniture' on the balcony was rusted and broken.
I was expecting budget accommodation but this place is awful.
"I'd rather than sleep in my car than ever stay here again. If Wanganui had not been booked out I'd have transferred to another hotel. "Read full review
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