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, […]