Name: Hosking House
Address: 1 Victoria Road, New Plymouth, New Plymouth, New Plymouth, 4310, New Zealand
Rating: 10

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New Plymouth Airport

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This is my second stay at Hosking House. Everything about this accommodation is excellent - great hosts, lovely accommodation, great breakfasts (every morning was different), and so central to the heart of New Plymouth, walking distance to restaurants & cafes. Rachel is a wonderful cook,and serves an amazing breakfast. Rachel provided us with information about things we could do & visit.

This is an exceptional accommodation made possible by the outstanding hosts, Rachel and Rod.  They have created a beautiful home away from home, with every attention to detail and comfort possible.  This was our second visit for three days and we can't wait to go back again next year. The gourmet breakfasts are out of this world and it is sometimes difficult to leave the little breakfast room and get on with the day!  The bath is such an added joy and the situation is perfect.
Thank you very much again Rachel and Rod

Complete nurturing in every way possible

Fantastic hosts, Rachel and Rodney! Beautiful house, beautiful spacious room, delicious freshly prepared breakfast. Location is directly on steep road down/up, parking on private property, driveway is also quite steep. Upon departure, hostess offers to drive our car up the road, and we gratefully accepted this offer! Walking distance to the beach, lots of restaurants nearby, beautiful Pukekura park only one block away. If we ever visit New Plymouth again we will most certainly stay at this lovely boutique accommodation!

Fantastic boutique hotel, combined with the character & warmth of a bed & breakfast

Very comfortable, and excellent breakfasts. Rachel and Rod were excellent hosts right through from booking to pre-arrival to recommendations for activities and restaurants etc. 
Highly recommended for a stop in New Plymouth. Close to centre.

Bang On

This is not just accommodation but an experience.  Perfect location. Perfectly comfortable room and bathroom. Perfect Breakfasts and perfect knowledgable and obliging hosts where nothing is too much trouble. I would not stay anywhere else in New Plymouth and I only wish there was more like this elsewhere in the world.  One of a kind.

Perfection Plus Plus

Wonderful 2 days staying at Hosking House.  We had such a relaxing time and the breakfasts were amazing. The room was large and light with a lovely ensuite and bath. Thanks so much for being such great hosts.

Taranaki Sanctuary

This is a classy place in a top location. Our suite was exceptional. Hosts Rachel and Rod were very friendly and allowed us to arrive early and have a late checkout.  The breakfasts were fabulous. We walked everywhere since it’s so close to town and to Pukekura Park, a must! We will definitely stay here again.  

A top notch B'n'B

It is the second time we’ve stayed at Hosking House. Superbly located, only a short walk to the city and beautiful Pukekura Park the B&B offers stylish, comfortable accommodation with a friendly welcome from host Rachel. The building is a lovingly renovated early C20 timber villa. Rooms are spacious with large bathrooms and there is also a guest lounge. Breakfasts include homemade preserves and fruit, cereals and a cooked option. Rachel is obviously a very competent cook and foodie. We recommend Hosking House and will be back again.

Stylish and perfectly located Hosking House.

This upscale B&B is clean, beautifully appointed and centrally located, making it an easy walk to eating places and other local attractions. The restored villa has plenty of space for guests and includes a guest kitchenette and lounge.  The New York room, where we stayed, is spacious, although some Kiwis may find the bedroom, bathroom, toilet configuration, without an intervening door, to be somewhat disconcerting.  Rachel made us welcome and provided us with useful local information. Parking in the driveway worked well for us as we were the only guests. It should be noted that the Council does not allow parking on this busy street.

Luxurious Accommodation

A lovely B&B. The house is a beautifully restored late Victorian building. There are three rooms/suites on the main floor at street level, while the owners live downstairs where the land drops away steeply. The two larger suites would be excellent for a long stay. Attention to detail is much better than most B&Bs and it has a luxury hotel vibe. The rooms are named after Taranaki, New York and London, referring to the fact that the owners are from New York and New Plymouth respectively, and met in London. It has a  very good balance between B&B services and complete privacy. In fact, you can have it both ways: as a single room/suite booking you get privacy, but if you wanted to book the whole place for a group of six people or so it would fabulous. The owner, Rachel was very helpful with restaurant and sights advice. 
Breakfast can be served in the bedroom or in the small breakfast room which is beautifully sunny and overlooks the owner’s private garden. The breakfast was extraordinarily good (continental with a hot dish of fresh fritters, poached eggs, frittata, bacon etc.) varying by day. Very good muesli too. There is also a sitting room at the front. 

It pays to book direct, which is better value than through the big sites. It is very good value.

The location is very good, on rising ground halfway up the hill beside Pukekura Park, but only a short walk to the groovy end of town. New Plymouth and its district has amazing publicly-owned gardens, which are not the ordinary municipal gardens you might expect. Pukekura Park is a vast garden rising up a valley, with many interesting features, including Art Deco gates at the bottom opening onto a sports stadium with high earthen banks like something from a fantasy movie. At the top is an interesting little complex with an 1840s timber hospital and a Chinese garden with one of the best Chinese tings to be fund anywhere. In the suburbs is a magnificent large Arts-and-Crafts garden called Tupare on high ground over the river built by the local road asphalt contractor in the 1930s. The house tours at weekends are well worth it. A few kilometres away is Puketi gardens, created from 1950 by a rhododendron society which gives a misleading idea of what it is, which is a rainforest garden, mostly native trees and ferns interspersed with very large Himalayan rhododendrons, making a kind of native-exotic fusion paradise. It has very good infrastructure with excellently graded walks modulating into serious hiking. All these are free, and there are others. 

The town has become groovy recently, with the Len Lye gallery and a well-preserved streetscape with high end shops and a lot of very good restaurants at one end (Monica’s beside the art gallery is a requirement for lunch; the pizzas in the White Hart pub opposite are some of the best anywhere, and there are a lot of really good restaurants for dinner). The nearby sea frontage has a long coastal walk which is an important feature of the town, although the streetscape facing it is not of much interest.

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