Where to stay in New Zealand
596 hotels, motels, hostels, B&Bs and holiday parks across 1 regions, compiled from open data.
Of the 9,323 venues we hold across New Zealand, 596 are places to stay — 6% of the total. They break down as 446 hotels, 1 motels, 14 b&bs and guest houses, 89 hostels, 33 serviced apartments and 13 holiday parks and campgrounds.
Distribution is heavily uneven. Singapore alone holds 591 of them — 99% of the national total — and the top three regions (Singapore) account for 99% between them. The thinnest is Singapore with 591. Averaged across the 347 named places we hold, that is 1.7 per town — a figure almost no individual town matches, because the median settlement has a handful and the cities have hundreds.
Accommodation is distributed quite differently from eating places. It concentrates where visitors go rather than where people live, which is why Singapore and the tourist regions carry a share out of proportion to their population, and why the ratio of beds to cafés is one of the more revealing numbers on any town page.
On data quality: 11 publish opening hours (2%), 372 list a website (62%), and 33 record step-free access (6%). 3 carry at least six recorded attributes, which is the bar a venue has to clear before we give it a page of its own — 1% of the total. The rest are listed on their town pages. Every gap is an unrecorded attribute rather than a known absence, because all of this comes from open data: OpenStreetMap for the venues themselves, public registers for verification. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, and no venue has paid to appear or to rank.