Family-owned Naumi Hotels open Naumi Studio Hotel on Cuba Street

There’s been a hotel on Cuba Street for as long as I can remem­ber.  In sixth form my very dar­ing sex-hav­ing friend booked her­self and her boy­friend a room at Trek­kers Hotel for after our ball at Cuba Cuba (but she ended up get­ting too drunk to leave the room).  In the mid naugh­ties, we […]

Cruisy

Evid­ently, spend­ing four­teen nights on board a lux­uri­ous float­ing hotel can be a little dis­or­i­ent­at­ing so every night at mid­night a crew mem­ber goes around all the elev­at­ors on the ship and swaps out a little plaque on the floor with the cor­rect day of the week. This is one of sev­er­al fairly astound­ing facts this […]

Parking ourselves at the Park Hotel (and a giveaway)

About a month ago, we atten­ded the open­ing of the Park Hotel where we ate amaz­ing canapes from Ster­ling (which we have raved about before), and heard newly crowned may­or Justin Lester say that Wel­ling­ton needs 1000 new hotel rooms to sus­tain growth (the Park Hotel has 137, fyi). We had a thor­oughly excel­lent time, […]