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.
Open · July 2026
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty
Mercure Tauranga
Tauranga's first internationally branded hotel, reborn from the former Hotel Armitage.
Open · May 2026
Queenstown, Otago
Coronet Ridge Resort
A NZ$30m rebirth above the Shotover River.
Open · March 2026
Auckland, Auckland
Radisson RED Auckland
Radisson's first New Zealand hotel lands with the country's largest rooftop bar.
Open · February 2026
Queenstown, Otago
ROKI Collection Queenstown
Fifteen ultra-luxury suites anchor a new lakefront benchmark on Wakatipu.
Open · September 2025
Invercargill, Southland
Distinction Invercargill Hotel
A 1966 government tower reborn as a 150-room, 4.5-star anchor for downtown Invercargill.
Open · August 2025
Auckland, Auckland
Hotel Indigo Auckland
Indigo brand's New Zealand debut
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.
Open · August 2024
Auckland, Auckland
JW Marriott Auckland
Marriott's JW brand debut in New Zealand, converted from the Stamford Plaza — originally the country's first five-star hotel
Open · 2024
Christchurch
Drifter Christchurch
A 1919 wool warehouse reborn as Christchurch's first hotel-hostel hybrid.
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.
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.
Open · January 2024
Wellington
The Sebel Wellington Thorndon
A brand-new Thorndon Quay tower, four years and one Covid delay in the making.
Open · September 2023
Wellington
The Cobbler Hotel
Twelve keys of industrial chic inside Wellington's century-old shoe factory.
Open · 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.
Open · September 29, 2022
Wellington
Mövenpick Hotel Wellington
Swiss chocolate ritual meets five-star city views on Wellington's Terrace.
Open · July 2022
Christchurch
The Mayfair
A NZ$23 million new-build putting relaxed luxury on Christchurch's Victoria Street.
Open · July 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.
Open · 7 May 2022
Auckland, Auckland
voco Auckland City Centre
IHG's playful upscale brand makes its New Zealand debut on a dual-tower Wyndham Street development
Open · May 12, 2022
Napier, Hawke's Bay
Swiss-Belboutique Napier
Napier's first internationally branded hotel, converted from a former PwC office tower
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
Open · Early August 2021
Christchurch
Christchurch City Hotel
A brand-new 46-room hotel facing Cathedral Square, rooftop restaurant included.
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.
Open · May 2021
Christchurch
Carnmore Hotel Christchurch
New Zealand's first modular-built hotel, stacked into Christchurch's rebuilt CBD.
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
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.
Open · 2020
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Quest Palmerston North
Quest Apartment Hotels' 35th New Zealand property, a serviced-apartment format in the Palmerston North CBD
Open · 2020
Blenheim, Marlborough
14th Lane Urban Hotel
An 8-room boutique hotel inside a restored 1940s building that was once one of Blenheim's only nightclubs
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.
Open · January 2020
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.
Open · 2016
Dunedin, Otago
Ebb Dunedin
A family-built, award-winning 28-room boutique hotel a two-minute walk from the University of Otago
Open · NC
Napier, Hawke's Bay
Criterion Hotel Napier
A heritage-listed Spanish Mission landmark, rebuilt after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake destroyed the original 1874 hotel
Open · NCHotels that opened in New Zealand in 2026
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