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Where to eat and stay in Kaikōura

104 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Kaikōura, Canterbury — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.

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72places to stay
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We hold 104 venues in Kaikōura — 32 places to eat and 72 to stay. That makes it the 2nd-largest of the 213 towns and suburbs we cover in Canterbury, carrying 5% of the region's venues. Nationally it sits 19th out of 1,482 places.

Of the places to eat, 22% are cafés against a national figure of 28%. Kaikōura skews 6 points away from cafés and towards restaurants, a pattern more typical of an evening trade. The full split is 7 cafés, 16 restaurants, 8 takeaways and 1 bars.

8 of the 32 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are fish and chips (4), seafood (2) and chinese (1). Relative to the rest of the country Kaikōura is unusually strong on fish and chips — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 18 publish opening hours (17%), 3 are recorded as step-free, 18 have outdoor seating and 2 flag vegetarian options. That is about the national average of 23%.

For a bed, Kaikōura runs to 72 listings — 13 hotels, 28 motels, 8 b&bs and guest houses, 10 hostels, 2 serviced apartments and 11 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 39% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 69% of everything mapped here, well above the 25% national share — the signature of a place that hosts more visitors than it has residents.

Places of a similar size — Lower Hutt (103), Wānaka (96), Mount Maunganui (95) and New Lynn (93) — average 18% accommodation. Kaikōura runs at 69%, noticeably more, which is what a place that takes in visitors looks like.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. 3 of the 104 venues in Kaikōura carry at least six recorded attributes and so have a page of their own; the rest are listed here, because a page with only a name and a map pin on it would be worth nobody's time. A blank field means unrecorded, not absent. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, no venue has paid to appear, and we publish no ratings or reviews of our own.

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Cafés in Kaikōura (7)

Restaurants in Kaikōura (16)

Takeaways in Kaikōura (8)

Bars in Kaikōura (1)

Hotels in Kaikōura (13)

Motels in Kaikōura (28)

B&Bs and guest houses in Kaikōura (8)

Hostels in Kaikōura (10)

Serviced apartments in Kaikōura (2)

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Kaikōura (11)

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Amit Sharma

Auckland real estate agent and social media marketer. I build these sites so the answer is free and the data is public.