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Where to eat and stay in Nelson

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

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We hold 185 venues in Nelson — 145 places to eat and 40 to stay. That is more than anywhere else in Nelson, and 80% of everything mapped across the region. Nationally it sits 9th out of 1,482 places.

Of the places to eat, 34% are cafés against a national figure of 28%. Nelson is 6 points more café-heavy than the country as a whole, which usually points to daytime and weekend trade rather than an evening dining scene. The full split is 49 cafés, 63 restaurants, 16 takeaways, 11 bars and 6 pubs.

76 of the 145 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are thai (7), pizza (7) and coffee shop (7). Relative to the rest of the country Nelson is unusually strong on mexican, italian and seafood — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 103 publish opening hours (56%), 63 are recorded as step-free, 25 have outdoor seating and 20 flag vegetarian options. Coverage here is better than the 23% national average, so the hours below are more reliable than most.

For a bed, Nelson runs to 40 listings — 10 hotels, 6 motels, 6 b&bs and guest houses, 11 hostels, 1 serviced apartments and 6 holiday parks and campgrounds. Hostels dominate, at 28% of the town's accommodation.

Places of a similar size — Palmerston North (187), Napier (159), Queenstown (216) and Whangārei (144) — average 29% accommodation. Nelson runs at 22%, noticeably less, so it feeds locals more than it beds travellers.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. 32 of the 185 venues in Nelson 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 Nelson (49)

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Restaurants in Nelson (63)

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Takeaways in Nelson (16)

Bars in Nelson (11)

Pubs in Nelson (6)

Hotels in Nelson (10)

Motels in Nelson (6)

B&Bs and guest houses in Nelson (6)

Hostels in Nelson (11)

Serviced apartments in Nelson (1)

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Nelson (6)

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