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Where to eat and stay in Taupō

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

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52places to stay
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We hold 140 venues in Taupō — 88 places to eat and 52 to stay. That makes it the 2nd-largest of the 160 towns and suburbs we cover in Waikato, carrying 8% of the region's venues. Nationally it sits 14th out of 1,482 places.

Of the places to eat, 38% are cafés against a national figure of 28%. Taupō is 10 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 33 cafés, 26 restaurants, 23 takeaways, 2 bars and 4 pubs.

39 of the 88 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are indian (6), burger (4) and coffee shop (4). Relative to the rest of the country Taupō is unusually strong on thai, sushi and indian — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 15 publish opening hours (11%), 2 are recorded as step-free, 12 have outdoor seating and 2 flag vegetarian options. That trails the 23% national average — worth ringing ahead rather than trusting the listing.

For a bed, Taupō runs to 52 listings — 3 hotels, 39 motels, 6 hostels and 4 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 75% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 37% 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 — Newmarket (142), Albany (143), Whangārei (144) and New Plymouth (133) — average 11% accommodation. Taupō runs at 37%, 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. 2 of the 140 venues in Taupō 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 Taupō (33)

Restaurants in Taupō (26)

Takeaways in Taupō (23)

Bars in Taupō (2)

Pubs in Taupō (4)

Hotels in Taupō (3)

Motels in Taupō (39)

Hostels in Taupō (6)

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Taupō (4)

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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.