Travellers from Ireland. The Tides was booked on line on the basis, largely, of location. We booked an upper floor room with a river view. Definitely worth doing. The room was very comfortable and unlike every other hotel room we have stayed in it was not overly hot. In fact it was quite cool and so we turned up the heating. For the first time ever we stayed in a hotel with electric blankets - my wife was in heaven. We ate in the restaurant twice and the food was superb; could not recommend highly enough and the staff were excellent. All of the staff were great and twice the housekeeping ladies helped us out with requests for additional room supplies. Would definitly recommend The Tides to anyone staying in Nelson. Five stars all the way.