Name: Halswell Lodge
Address: 21 Kent Terrace,Courtenay Place, Wellington, Wellington, Wellington, 5016, New Zealand
Rating: 5

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Oriental Bay Beach

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Halswell Lodge

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My husband and I have stayed here many times over the years, but this  time will be our last. We stay in the villa part, and although we absolutely love the old decor we were very disappointed with our stay. We always choose a spa bath room. The bath in our room was filthy, with black grease smears and debris in the bath. We went to the shared kitchen to try to find something to clean it with and there was nothing. The shared kitchen was left in an awful state with stains on the bench and the dishwasher had filthy cups. Our room had no batteries in the remote for the TV. We purchased batteries and something to clean the bath with.  The bathroom floor was unclean with cracker crumbs under the vanity. The shower wasn't hot and the shower head was stuck at a weird angle. When we went to use the bath, again the water was lukewarm and not worth the effort we went to cleaning it. The fridge froze our milk and the tea bags were stale. The carpet had not been vacuumed.
We considered going to a different hotel for our second night, but we had already been charged over $400 for our stay. Even the fake flowers looked dead.
I am an ex motel housekeeper, so I was extremely annoyed at the lack of cleaning. We would have been fired if we left a room in that state.

Halswell lodge, we love the old villa, but we hated how you haven't taken any pride in the place.

We will not be back.

Terrible, filthy and disappointing.

It was cold and dirty, staff don’t speak or understand English, couldn’t access the reception because the driveway was too steep, the shower head was broken and sprayed water everywhere, disabled hand rail was broken and coming off the wall, shower curtain was absolutely disgusting, mattresses and towels had stains and was only supplied with decaffeinated coffee.

Terrible , worst accommodation yet

This hostel is disgusting!
Complete lack of service & it's in a disgusting state.  Would not recommend for your own health & safety.  Lord knows when it was last cleaned or maintained.  Unless you love a hostel to smell of old fag's n beer!  
AVOID AT ALL COSTS

DONT EVEN BOTHER

Extremely disappointing.  On the plus side the shower was good with hot water.  Unlike other reviews there were towels. It looked like a recent paint job in places.  Kitchen was appalling.  No utensils nothing worked. No kettle. Filthy microwave and dodgy looking toaster.  Lack of crockery and cutlery.  Leaking fridge in room so damp carpet. Smell of damp. Curtain stuck to window with condensation and mould.  Dark and unpleasant. No one yo contact.  I moved out but lost money.  The back door was permanently open. No security.  A very bad experience.

Not recommend

The owners, the staff and the place is disgusting. My whole whānau all booked 4 rooms 14 of us and i arrived before my whānau and checked all the rooms to see if they were ok before they all arrived and i made the owners re clean all the bathrooms and the window sills. The bathrooms were disgusting not even cleaned and we had a toodler and no way were we going to make our kids shower/bath in that filth until my partner and i told the owners to clean it. Mold around the showers, broken toasters, dirty fridges, dirty microwaves, no dish washing liquid, missing bowls and utensils. My whānau and i all had to share appliances between the rooms. Theres a sign saying the rooms will be services each day and put towels and stuff in the shower, nope thats a lie. My mother had to tell the staff on our 2nd/3rd day for fresh towels, toilet paper, dish washing liquid for tge empty bottles. The under sheets and the matresses themselves were so disgusting. The bond they asked for before we even stepped into the place and had a check it was for damages when there was a hole in the outside wall, kicked in door, tagging etc. The staff/owners dont car at all, reception is non existant. We had to throw our own rubbish into skip etc. Paying $2100 for that was over priced and a total rip off and i hope they get shutdown because its disgusting in terms of health and safety. Broken shower head, my brother a plumber so he fixed it. My whānau honestly just bought paper plates and plastic utensils and our own coffee/tea/water etc because we couldnt even trust the cleanliness of everything. Also the photos that are online are what it used to be but are now not even true what it is in reality. Never again.

Disgusting

An absolute DUMP!  STAY AWAY as far as possible!  On arrival - Reception is closed.  The hallway is old, dirty, dusty and wallpaper is peeling. The room was filthy and unhealthy.  Carpet is stained with mold, the curtain was broken and the windows and window sill were not cleaned in ages.  The shower curtain looked like it was 100+ years old with a 101 years' filth on it.  There was no towels, hair dryer, safety deposit box, fan, or heater, although it was all advertised on booking.com.  The photos on the web sites must have been photoshopped because the actual place did not reflect the photos on the booking sites - not even those on Google.

This place should be removed from ALL hospitality sites and lists and rather be demolished.

The staff is nonchalant about the state of the place and the only apology we received was:  "Housekeeping is tuff"!  Well, if that is the case, LEAVE THE INDUSTRY! 

DON'T GO THERE PLEASE!!!!!   EVER!!!!!

Absolutely disgusting.  DON'T STAY HERE!

If you want cheap and very basic this is your place!

The advert says they have Sky but they do NOT - they just have two channels of standard tv.
Unfortunately we’d specifically chosen this place to watch a competition on sky - but couldn’t watch it. The manager wasn’t very happy when we asked about it. 

Bathroom works well - smelt of smoke, the windows didn’t lock shut, which meant street noise, but there was a heater to compensate (be careful with small kids thou). 

You can hear what is happening in other rooms - bring earplugs.

but it’s cheap $120/night, great location, the cleaning staff are lovely and so helpful (possibly the best part of the stay).



very basic 

The worst place, no hot water, toilet/ seat broken/appliances having damage leads/heater broken leg /bad insulation, all-night you could hear thuds from the room above /graffiti outside the window/
staff assistant replaces the jug and toaster and says he wasn't told by the cleaners. next day he was the one cleaning the rooms.
we were going to stay for 2 nights but when we went to reception the manager wouldn't come out and greet  us and stayed in her office and basically lied to us to be polite, she said that she had a plumber coming on Monday to fix the water + sink and i said that wasn't good enough as plumbers are on call24/7 and asked for compensation, she responded in saying that she would give our money back for the second night but we would have to check out. This was a busy weekend as we had come down from Auckland to see the wearable arts show and we knew that trying to find accomadation would be scarce.
lucky for us the Bays hotel just2min away had a couple of rooms  5 star compared to that dump and we paid the same amount.

note .after we came home I look online at the reviews and hot water issue have been an ongoing problem for some time.

this lodge needs to be closed for H & S reasons and the manager needs to go.Wouldn't even recommend this to my worst ene

The wifi is non existent. Paid for their best room. Broken toilet seat, wet mould dmelling bathroom. No matress protector on the bed - who knows what you are sleeping on. Reception not attended so no one to sort any issues. This place used to be lovely but not anymore.

Givevit a wide berth

This was one of the WORST places I've stayed in in my entire life.  I could hear all of the rooms around me.  The room was filthy, there was a sticky substance on the nightstand that I had to scrub off myself with the towels provided and the bathroom extractor fan had/has a layer of grime and dust collected there from more than a few months.  There was no mattress cover.  This place is so bad they didn't bother putting a mirror up in the bathroom because they didn't want you to see your own face when you saw the state of it.  Seriously terrible.  Never ever again.  Paid for two nights, left after one.  Do NOT recommend.

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