With 50 rooms, each individually furnished, every stay at Princes Gate Hotel is unique and personal. The rooms range from apartments to suites and are all beautifully-appointed. Each room includes a television with SKY TV, radio, hairdryer and telephone. Plus an ensuite bathroom with a bath, shower and a range of personal toiletries.

The recently refurbished top-class accommodation includes 12 one- and two-bedroom suites plus 38 rooms; Designer, Estate and Classic. The style and décor – and some of the entertainment – are all reminiscent of days gone by but never forgotten. Soak in the glamour, the taste, the class and the luxury of the best days of the 1930s.

Guests can relax in the superb surroundings of the three hectares of beautifully manicured gardens. There are plenty of relaxing activities to enjoy when you base your Rotorua holiday in this central location. The hotel has a New Zealand heritage listing; we like to say it’s “A hotel so good they built the city around it”.

Also included in the hotel’s facilities are:

The Princes Gate boasts beautiful Victorian looks with a splendid veranda surround and a patterned woodworked façade. Inside are lush patterned carpets, polished wood and leather furnishings, and sparkling chandeliers. You can step back in time at the fabulous ‘high tea’, served between 10am and 4pm, seven days a week - very English, very smart, very heart-warming and an opportunity to sample the ambiance of the establishment for guests and visitors to the hotel.

Princes Gate also caters for modern city life. Guests can drop in to the Press Café, a celebrity place popular with the night owls and the show crowd seeking a wine and cheese on the way to the theatre. The two restaurants cater for more formal dining, and are open between 7am and 10pm to provide a full all-day menu of fine foods.

“It’s been a big part of our lives for a quarter of a century,” says owner of 25 years Brett Marvelly, “but a very happy part. The Prince’s Gate could tell some wonderful tales about a whole parade of celebrities and characters who have passed this way. We want to make sure it will remain an integral part of the social life of Rotorua and be considered by those who visit us here as ‘only the best’”.

We are pleased to have been nominated and then be voted as winners of the Best Nationwide Hotel in this years NZ Corporate Events Guide Peoples Choice awards. We thank all those who voted for us and we will continue to strive for excellence again next year.