Eating and staying in Bay of Plenty
1,043 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 118 towns and suburbs in Bay of Plenty.
Bay of Plenty accounts for 6% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 6th-largest of the 17 regions by venue count. Those 1,043 venues sit across 118 named towns and suburbs, of which 10 carry at least 20 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is relatively even: Rotorua (263), Tauranga (133) and Mount Maunganui (95) hold 47% of everything between them. The remaining 108 places average 3.2 venues each — a long tail of small settlements that we list on the nearest town page rather than give an empty page to.
The regional split runs 67% eating to 34% accommodation, against a national 75/25. That is close to the national balance.
332 venues in Bay of Plenty carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on turkish (13), ice cream (4) and mediterranean (4).
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 119 venues here publish opening hours (11% against 23% nationally), 137 list a website, and 20 record step-free access. Everything on this site comes from open data, so coverage reflects what mappers and councils have published — not what exists on the ground.
The category split
| Restaurants | 232 in Bay of Plenty · 22% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 4,557 |
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| Cafés | 206 in Bay of Plenty · 20% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 3,643 |
| Takeaways | 190 in Bay of Plenty · 18% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 3,742 |
| Motels | 131 in Bay of Plenty · 13% of the region · 11% of New Zealand's 1,150 |
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 97 in Bay of Plenty · 9% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 1,337 |
| Hotels | 61 in Bay of Plenty · 6% of the region · 8% of New Zealand's 775 |
| Bars | 48 in Bay of Plenty · 5% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 648 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 38 in Bay of Plenty · 4% of the region · 8% of New Zealand's 478 |
| Pubs | 27 in Bay of Plenty · 3% of the region · 4% of New Zealand's 623 |
| Hostels | 14 in Bay of Plenty · 1% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 414 |
| Serviced apartments | 13 in Bay of Plenty · 1% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 282 |
Sideline covers the same region for sport — gyms and clubs in Bay of Plenty →
Towns and suburbs in Bay of Plenty
A further 108 smaller places in Bay of Plenty carry fewer than 20 venues each. Rather than publish a page with nothing to say, we list their venues on the town pages nearest them.