Castles Motel

Disappointed as I had thought I’d booked a nice night away with my husband… turned out it is an emergency accommodation provider . I’m not a snob and don’t judge people but they should have disclosed this when booking At 300/night I was expecting something nice and romantic … there were kids and families everywhere. I would suggest they include this in their booking information.

We were informed that some rooms were tenanted for social housing. Thought that it will be ok but turned out to be a bad idea. People from nearby room were fighting at the middle of the night so hard to sleep. No heating inside the main bedroom. To top it all off a big drama played out on the last night- one of the lady owners threw a tantrum, crying and shouting out in the street in front of our room as partner seems to be leaving her. A lot of drama for a week we wanted to spend trying to relax.

We stayed in this Motel on a quick vist to Nelson. The grounds are over grown and unclean but actually the worst was that this is more of an emergency accomodation place. I was uncomfortable walking through the hotel with some very undesirable people around . Noises and talking of all hours of the night outside woke me up at 4am. Refused to walk through in dark so just left key under mat. Emailed the owners to say how uncomfortable it was and never heard back. If you are looking for a place to relax and stay do not go here diffently not a place to have kids. Actually should bot be able to say its a motel.