New hotels open in New Zealand
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Queenstown, Otago
voco Queenstown
A Holiday Inn Express reborn as IHG's premium voco on the corner of Stanley and Sydney.
From NZD 140
Open · July 2026
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty
Mercure Tauranga
Accor's first Tauranga hotel is the former Hotel Armitage, rebranded Mercure with 80 rooms, five function rooms and the Willow Restaurant & Bar.
From NZD 90
Open · May 2026
Queenstown, Otago
Coronet Ridge Resort
A NZ$30m rebirth above the Shotover River.
From NZD 835
Open · March 2026
Auckland, Auckland
Radisson RED Auckland
Radisson's first New Zealand hotel opens on a Queen Street block with a 500 square metre rooftop bar.
Open · February 2026
Queenstown, Otago
ROKI Collection Queenstown
Fifteen ultra-luxury suites anchor a new lakefront benchmark on Wakatipu.
From NZD 2,800
Open · September 2025
Invercargill, Southland
Distinction Invercargill Hotel
A seven-storey 1966 government office block on Esk Street West became a 150-room, 4.5-star Distinction hotel in August 2025.
From NZD 210
Open · August 2025
Auckland, Auckland
Hotel Indigo Auckland
Indigo brand's New Zealand debut
From NZD 250
Open · April 2025
Auckland, Auckland
Horizon by SkyCity
Horizon by SkyCity opened on August 1, 2024, adding 303 rooms to Auckland's SkyCity precinct after a construction saga that pushed the launch back from an original March target.
From NZD 300
Open · August 2024
Auckland, Auckland
JW Marriott Auckland
Auckland's first JW Marriott, a staged conversion of the former Stamford Plaza, which opened in 1984 as The Regent.
From NZD 320
Open · 2024
Christchurch
Drifter Christchurch
A 1919 wool warehouse reborn as Christchurch's first hotel-hostel hybrid.
From NZD 140
Open · June 2024
Auckland, Auckland
SOHO Hotel Auckland
SOHO Hotel Auckland brought Art Deco theatrics to the suburb of Mount Roskill when Capstone Hotel Management opened the 126-room property in 2024, developed in partnership with owner-developer IPG Corporation Ltd.
From NZD 160
Open · March 2024
Auckland, Auckland
InterContinental Auckland
InterContinental Auckland opened on 30 January 2024, taking floors six through eleven of the Deloitte Centre tower inside the NZ$1 billion Commercial Bay precinct on the Waitematā Harbour waterfront.
From NZD 500
Open · January 2024
Wellington
The Sebel Wellington Thorndon
A brand-new Thorndon Quay tower, four years and one Covid delay in the making.
From NZD 110
Open · September 2023
Wellington
The Cobbler Hotel
Twelve keys of industrial chic inside Wellington's century-old shoe factory.
From NZD 140
Open · 2023
Wellington
TRYP by Wyndham Wellington
A heritage-listed art deco building in Te Aro becomes Wyndham's TRYP, with a penthouse of more than 360 square meters.
Open · February 2023
Invercargill, Southland
The Langlands Hotel
A community trust, not a hotel brand, built Invercargill's biggest hotel opening in decades: a NZ$52 million new build by Warren and Mahoney.
From NZD 240
Open · September 29, 2022
Wellington
Mövenpick Hotel Wellington
Swiss chocolate ritual meets five-star city views on Wellington's Terrace.
From NZD 100
Open · July 2022
Christchurch
The Mayfair
A NZ$23 million new-build putting relaxed luxury on Christchurch's Victoria Street.
From NZD 200
Open · July 2022
Auckland, Auckland
voco Auckland City Centre
IHG's playful upscale brand makes its New Zealand debut on a dual-tower Wyndham Street development
From NZD 175
Open · May 12, 2022
Christchurch, Canterbury
The Observatory Hotel
A 33-room hotel inside the Arts Centre's Gothic Revival Observatory, Biology and Physics buildings: former University of Canterbury lecture halls that had never operated as a hotel until the post-earthquake restoration made it possible.
From NZD 155
Open · 7 May 2022
Auckland, Auckland
Fable Auckland, MGallery
Windsor House, a Category 2 heritage building from 1927-28 on Queen Street, reopened under the Fable flag in December 2021 with 79 rooms.
From NZD 170
Open · December 2021
Napier, Hawke's Bay
Swiss-Belboutique Napier
A 52-room hotel in a 2015 office building on Munroe Street, Napier's first internationally branded stay.
From NZD 190
Open · December 13, 2021
Auckland, Auckland
Imagine Beach Road
An independent Australian hotel group's fourth property, and its first outside Australia, lands in Britomart
From NZD 115
Open · Early August 2021
Christchurch
Christchurch City Hotel
A 46-room new-build on Colombo Street, a minute's walk from Cathedral Square, with a French-inspired restaurant and bar on the roof.
From NZD 150
Open · July 2021
Wellington, Wellington
The Intrepid Hotel
An 18-room hotel converted from Cadbury Chocolate's 1909 Te Aro office and warehouse, after a three-year refurbishment that included seismic strengthening.
From NZD 280
Open · May 2021
Christchurch
Carnmore Hotel Christchurch
New Zealand's first modular-built hotel, stacked into Christchurch's rebuilt CBD.
From NZD 180
Open · October 2020
Auckland, Auckland
The Hotel Britomart
New Zealand's first 5 Green Star hotel, locally designed, built and owned, in the heart of the Britomart precinct
From NZD 255
Open · October 1, 2020
Christchurch
The Muse Christchurch Art Hotel
A 1960s bank building turned art-filled boutique hotel, one seismic upgrade at a time.
From NZD 180
Open · 2020
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Quest Palmerston North
Quest Palmerston North opened on 12 August 2020 as the brand's 35th New Zealand property, with 40 apartments in the city centre.
From NZD 110
Open · 2020
Blenheim, Marlborough
14th Lane Urban Hotel
Eight rooms in a restored 1940s building on Kinross Street, once one of Blenheim's few nightclubs, now an owner-run boutique hotel.
From NZD 325
Open · 2020
Rotorua, Bay of Plenty
Pullman Rotorua
Rotorua's first five-star hotel didn't rise from bare ground: it emerged from the gutted shell of a 1980s mirror-glass office tower on Arawa Street.
From NZD 350
Open · January 2020
Auckland, Auckland
SO/ Auckland
Accor's design-driven SO/ brand makes its Pacific debut inside the former Reserve Bank of New Zealand building, its old gold vault reimagined as spa and event space.
From NZ$295
Open · November 2018
Christchurch
Distinction Christchurch Hotel
The former Millennium on Cathedral Square, shut by the earthquakes and reopened in 2018 under a New Zealand-owned brand.
Open · March 2018
Auckland, Auckland
M Social Auckland
A tired 1970s waterfront tower is stripped to its structure and relaunched under Millennium & Copthorne's new lifestyle brand, M Social.
From NZD 200
Open · December 2017
Christchurch
Crowne Plaza Christchurch
An earthquake-surviving office tower on Victoria Square, reopened in 2017 as a 204-room Crowne Plaza.
Open · June 2017
Wellington
Sofitel Wellington
Sofitel Wellington opened on 17 August 2016 inside a stripped-back and extended office block on Bolton Street, the first new luxury hotel to open in the New Zealand capital in over fifteen years.
From NZD 210
Open · 2016
Dunedin, Otago
Distinction Dunedin Hotel
Dunedin's 1937 Chief Post Office, vacant for two decades, reopened in 2015 as a 127-room hotel whose original mail vaults now serve as private dining rooms.
From NZD 180
Open · 2015
Dunedin, Otago
Ebb Dunedin
A family-built, ground-up boutique hotel on Filleul Street in central Dunedin, with an atrium garden and a retractable roof.
From NZD 215
Open · TBC
Napier, Hawke's Bay
Criterion Hotel Napier
A Spanish Mission landmark of 1932 on Emerson Street, rebuilt after the 1931 earthquake and listed on the New Zealand Heritage List.
From NZD 200
Open · TBCHotels that opened in New Zealand in 2026
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