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Reviews of Colonial Motel

3.5 out of 5
Colonial Motel
66 Main Street, Blenheim, Marlborough

Reviews

9.6

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 83 out of 108 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 25 out of 108 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 0 out of 108 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 108 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 108 reviews" "

9.8/10

Cleanliness

9.8/10

Staff & service

9.6/10

Amenities

9.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Jill

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly, helpful people. lovely unit.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Ruth

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Awesome place to stay handy to supermarket and town. Very friendly and helpful went above and beyond
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

8/10 Good

Neil

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Pleasant stay
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lisa

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Mrs Joanne

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Was comfortable , had everything I needed
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Sandra

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Great clean motel which has all the amenities needed for a comfortable stay.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Barbara

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Courtesy shuttle to railway station was much appreciated.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Tiffany

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Our brief stay at the Colonial Motel was wonderful. We called to let them know we’d be checking in late and the owners son was very helpful when we arrived. The unit had everything we needed and very close to town for dining options.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Nicolas

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely simple accommodations - perfect for visiting Marlborough. Many restaurants are within walking distance, easy parking. Our hosts were very friendly and helpful. Definitely recommend.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Charles

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We had a fabulous stay! Great location, wonderful room, and very friendly staff!!!
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

John E

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very good hosts, very friendly and welcoming enjoyed our stay very much.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Carla

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Was a pleasure to stay at
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Callie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very quaint and owners were fabulous with a later check out and offering help for my short stay.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Hayley

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We had a lovely stay here, the units are very comfortable, clean and cozy. Everything you need is right there in the unit. The Etheredge’s are brilliant hosts that make you feel very welcome. Would highly recommend 😊
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Gillian

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautifully presented room with lovely toiletries and coffee machine and choice of teas etc. The only thing that wasn’t perfect in the room was the tiny bathroom sink! The road it is on was quite noisy and closing the windows didn’t help much!
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

C

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Views over roofs to the hills.
Spacious for 2 single adults, well equipped, free laundry.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Helen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Highly recommended
Very warm welcome, enjoyable stay. Facilities clean and well maintained. Enjoyed a refreshing dip in the swimming pool. Excellent advice on local areas in Blenheim
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Courtney

Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Martin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Matthew

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The owners turn this property from “fine” to outstanding. We were warmly greeted and had a few friendly chats during our stay. Excellent service and consideration of our needs. Thanks everybody!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

James

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
10/10 great staff, love that it’s a pet friendly place will definitely be visiting again
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Danette

Simon, the manager/owner was awesome to talk to. He was very friendly and gave us lemons from his lemon tree. The room was clean comfortable and very roomy. I highly recommended the Colonial Motel.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Damon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really helpful and friendly hosts, lovely place to stay and only a short walk from the river.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

shaylan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jamie

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rowena

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved the Nespresso machine provided.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

martin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Give it a try
It's in a great location, the owners are great, highly recommended.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Dave

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Terry

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A pleasant place to stop overnight. Handy to any place you need to call in on.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

scarlett

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The owner is very nice and warm. The motel provides capsule nespresso coffee and chocolate fish. The room is very pretty. All the plates and the mugs are very very pretty. You can tell the taste of the owner is excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Vibhuti

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This was a great, family friendly accomodation. The little extras in the place like nice shampoo, tasteful furnishings added a nice touch. And the bonus was a great coffee machine. Must stay
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023
Response from Nicola on Jul 13, 2023
Thanks for you kind review and we are very pleased you enjoyed your stay with us. Hope to be able to host you again in the future, all the best!

10/10 Excellent

Cheryl

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
This was the best motel we stayed in for our entire holiday. The previous night was terrible and ever so slightly dearer. The owner lady here was an absolute delight. The room was a pleasure to stay in, Every amenity was at out disposal. Would thoroughly recommend this accomodation
Stayed 1 night in May 2023
Response from Nicola on May 29, 2023
Thank you so much for the great review Cheryl and we're so happy you enjoyed your stay with us. All the best and we hope to be able to host you again in the future!

10/10 Excellent

Rick

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Lovely place to stay. Management and staff are super and the location excellent. The only challenge was the internet...not typical and difficult at times. Nonetheless, highly recommend the stay.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023
Response from Nicola on May 7, 2023
Thank so much for the kind review and we're so glad you enjoyed your stay with us. Thanks for the feedback regards the internet, we'll look into how we can improve on this. All the best for the rest of your travels and we hope to be able to host you again in the future!

10/10 Excellent

Justin

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The owners were hands-on operators and clearly love managing this property and their guests’ experiences.
Stayed 6 nights in Mar 2023
Response from Nicola on Mar 12, 2023
Thank you for the very kind review, we are pleased that you enjoyed your stay with us. All the best and we hope to be able to host you again in the future!

10/10 Excellent

Harpreet

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very cute place. Clean and spacious. Easy to check in and parking available on site. They didn’t have air conditioner in the room and I thought it would be probably but ceiling fan was enough. Granted we visited during fall time when temperature is in 50*F
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023
Response from Nicola on Mar 1, 2023
Thanks for the kind review and we are glad that you enjoyed your stay with us. Thanks for the feedback about the air conditioner but glad that the ceiling fan did the job for you! All the best for the rest of your travels!

8/10 Good

Millie

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location was great although noisy from the main road traffic
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023
Response from Nicola on Mar 1, 2023
Thanks for the kind review Millie and apologies about the traffic noise, being located on a main road has its ups and downs, we hope it wasn't too much of a disturbance for you.

10/10 Excellent

Helen

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very clean and comfortable
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023
Response from Nicola on Feb 6, 2023
Thanks very much for the kind review. We hope to be able to host you again in the future!

8/10 Good

Jeremy

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Nice units with frendly staff
Response from Nicola on Feb 3, 2023
Thanks Jeremy for the kind review. Hope to be able to host you again in the future!

10/10 Excellent

Kyle

Travelled with family, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
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Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2023
Response from Nicola on Feb 3, 2023
Thanks Kyle for the kind review, we hope to be able to host you again in the future!

10/10 Excellent

Robert

8/10 Good

Alison

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Very convenient for a night on the way through from the ferry. Very welcoming of our dog. The owners were thoughtful and accommodating of our delayed arrival after 10pm, moving us to a ground floor unit so we didn't have to climb stairs past other units. Happy to return.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022
Response from Peter on May 4, 2022
Thank you for your stay and your kind words Alison. We appreciate the feedback and happy to look after you again upon your return.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Home Away from Home
Lovely warm greeting (masks and social distancing in place!), and some thoughtful extras provided. Definitely recommend.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021
Response from Peter on Aug 31, 2021
Thank you so much Bryan for your kind review which we appreciate so much. Hope you can stay with us again.

10/10 Excellent

John

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Wonderful stay - highly recommended
Awesome - fantastic hosts
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2021
Response from Peter on Jan 16, 2021
Thank you very much John for your generous review which is very much appreciated. Thank you for staying with us and we do hope that you return. So glad that you enjoyed your stay.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2020
Response from Peter on Dec 15, 2020
Thank you very much for your kind review and hope that you come our way again.

8/10 Good

On Na

Business traveller, Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
lovely owners & clean room
Love how the room was so tidy and clean when we came back :) very friendly owners. ice fish & chips shop right outside the motel & fast foods only minutes away.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020
Response from Peter on Mar 16, 2020
Thank you so much for your kind review and great comments. Feedback is always appreciated and thank you for your stay.

8/10 Good

On Na

Business traveller, Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very clean and tidy
Very clean! Room was well cleaned & tidied everyday when I got back :)
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020
Response from Peter. on Mar 13, 2020
Thank you very much On Na for your kind review and we appreciate your feedback. We do try to offer the best service we can to our guests.

10/10 Excellent

On Na

Business traveller, Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very Clean Room
Nice check in, really friendly owners. Room was sparkling clean. We had a nice stay.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020
Response from Peter on Mar 11, 2020
Thank you very much On Na for your stay and your kind review. We do appreciate the feedback.So pleased that you had a nice stay.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
very easy to find and handy to town and the main road north
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020
Response from Pete on Feb 11, 2020
Thank you for your kind review and hope that you return someday.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely welcome by the owners, and more than happy to help out with anything at all
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020
Response from Pete. on Feb 1, 2020
Thank you very much for your kind review and so pleased that you enjoyed your stay. Hope you are able to return to us again.