The Best Hotels Near 1154 Pastaria, by the Record
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A riot of floral prints hits you at reception before you've even found the lift, which is either a warning or a promise, depending on your relationship with maximalism. This boutique hotel on Cuba Street backs the bold lobby with rooms that are quieter but not by much, layering color, texture, and genuinely luxurious linens. Double-glazed windows keep the city out. Lola Rouge handles pan-Asian food and high tea; the Grand Bar handles everything after.
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A hotel on Wellington's harbor that skips the tramping-boot aesthetic most New Zealand properties lean into, QT Wellington is a loud, colorful tribute to the capital's arts scene instead. Rooms run to murals, bold prints, Bose speakers, and Nespresso machines, keeping one foot in quiet luxury. The indoor pool sits in a sunlit atrium, and the social center is the Hippopotamus Restaurant and Cocktail Bar downstairs.
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Ten rooms on Oriental Parade, each with a glass-walled bathroom and a two-person soaking tub, which tells you exactly the kind of boutique hotel this is. Mid-century modernist furniture is curated with genuine care, and the materials throughout feel chosen rather than specified. Owner-operated keeps the scale human and the welcome warm, without the cool remove that usually comes with this much design intent.
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A glass tower on Wellington's harbor, its upper floors framing Cook Strait and the hills that make this city impossible to grid. It's a full-service hotel in the center of town, 231 rooms in cream and dark wood, with harbor views kicking in as you move up the tiers. Two Grey, the attached café and wine bar, pulls an after-work crowd on its own terms. Te Papa and the waterfront are both walkable, which in Wellington's compact core means five minutes, not twenty.
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The hotel shares its name with the actual bay, which is either poetic or a mild administrative headache, depending on whether you're the ferry captain. There are no roads in or out, so a golf cart meets you on arrival, and that's essentially the last time infrastructure intrudes. A remote Marlborough Sounds resort with apartment-style rooms, a deck over the water, and dolphins nearby if you want them.