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New Zealand Budget Hotels and Hostels

Across New Zealand, you can bed down in historic guesthouses, facility-laden hotels, uniform motel units, beautifully situated campsites, and hostels that range in character from clean-living to tirelessly party-prone.

Accommodation listings are in order of authorial preference, based on our assessment of atmosphere, cleanliness, facilities, location and bang for your buck.

If you’re travelling during peak tourist seasons, book your bed well in advance. Accommodation is most in demand (and at its priciest) during the summer holidays from Christmas to late January, at Easter and during winter in snowy resort towns like Queenstown.

Visitor information centres provide reams of local accommodation information, often in the form of folders detailing facilities and up-to-date prices; many can also make bookings on your behalf.

For online listings, visit Automobile Association and Jasons.

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Riverstone Backpackers

Reborn as a bijou backpackers, this cleverly refitted old house has an enviable kitchen, comfortable lou...

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from $18 per night
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Yha Wellington City

Wellington's best hostel wins points for fantastic communal areas including two big kitchens and dining ...

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from $23 per night
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Solscape Eco Retreat

This hippie hilltop hostel has dorms in old train carriages...

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from $22 per night
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Sequoia Lodge Backpackers

A well-managed backpackers in a colourful, high-ceilinged Victorian house...

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from $29 per night
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The Old Countryhouse

The Old Countryhouse features two separate villas with handmade wooden furniture, a reading lounge and a...

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from $17 per night
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Cactus Jacks Backpackers

If you’re looking for character, pardner, then this Western-themed spot is just your gunfight...

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from $21 per night
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City Garden Lodge

Occupying a character-filled, two-storey house built for Tongan royalty, this friendly and well-run back...

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from $17 per night
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Paradiso Backpackers

Club Med for the impoverished, Paradiso is a sprawling place that lures a backpacker-body-beautiful crow...

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from $24 per night
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Pickled Parrot Backpackers

Surrounded by tropical plants, this friendly, well-maintained backpackers’ stalwart has cute cabins, fre...

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from $25 per night
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Kates Place

An unpretentious home stay–backpackers with a welcoming owner and a laid-back vibe, just a hop and a ski...

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from $27 per night
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Foley Towers

Sheltered by well-established trees, Foley Towers provides well-maintained rooms encircling quiet inner ...

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from $29 per night
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Chester Street Backpackers

This relaxed wooden villa is painted in bright colours and has a huge library in the sunny front room...

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from $22 per night
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Wellywood Backpackers

You’d have to be a zookeeper not to be impressed by this huge zebra-striped building off Courtenay Pl...

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from $20 per night
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Rainbow Lodge Backpackers

A solid, sociable hostel offering clean rooms, including some with en suite...

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from $21 per night
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Dusky Lodge

What a whopper! Easily Kaikoura’s biggest hostel, the Dusky is an industrious, social place with facilit...

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from $23 per night
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Blackcurrant Backpackers

Fashioned from an ageing motel, our favourite Taupo hostel has private rooms with en suites and supercom...

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from $23 per night
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Mountain View Backpackers

Run by a friendly family, this colourfully renovated and characterful house features an expansive lawn a...

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from $21 per night
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Fox Glacier Inn

Hard-working managers have transformed this backpackers from hellhole to haven...

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from $20 per night
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Noah's Ark Backpackers

Originally a monastery, Noah’s now has eccentric animal-themed rooms and a sunset-worthy balcony...

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from $19 per night
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Accents On The Park

This perfectly positioned hostel has a hotel feel with its professional staff, balconies, groovy cafe-ba...

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from $27 per night
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Jailhouse Accommodation

Housed in an old prison that was built in 1874 (and only decommissioned in 1999), the Jailhouse is one o...

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from $23 per night
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Yha Whangarei

This small hostel has only a handful of rooms on a quiet hillside overlooking the river...

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