Kingsgate Hotel, Greymouth

Advantages: comfortable quiet rooms,hotel situated conveniently for access to the City CBD, and 20 minutes maximum from Auckland International Airport
Disadvantages: poor timing on our part, we arrived at reception early evening just after 2 parties,quite a wait as a result

...We arrived at Auckland International Airport from Fiji in late afternoon.It took a while to clear immigration and customs,and ,more prolonged, to clear the checks of the NZ Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Quarantine service, as we had 2 wood based gift products purchased in Nadi. Hire car,courtesy of EZY,was picked up from the airport information desk and airport car park. The 3 star hotel was reached via an easy drive on good quality dual carriageway roads ( the South Western Motorway and Hugh Watt Drive) in 20 minutes, and through the Royal Oak district. Greenlane is a pleasant leafy residential suburb of Auckland, adjacent to Cornwall park. There is a good bus service into central Auckland, and importantly the hotel is well placed for access to the Southern Motorway which we used to head south to Rotorua... Read review

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Advantages: ummmmmm.......
Disadvantages: See op.....

...Ok, not long ago I wrote an OP on my local Brewers Fayre. Now It's the turn of Brewsters (Same chain of restaurants). My boyfriend and I recently decided to try the Brewsters restaurant at Kingsgate Still, East Kilbride. After our experience at The Hurlett, Barrhead, Glasgow, we didn't think that things could get any worse. WRONG!!! This time we went specifically to have a meal. We were taken to a table and as we went to sit down, we noticed that the 2 seats on one side of the table, were filthy....there was ground in food on the upholstery, and grease, so we had to change the chairs! Whilst we were looking at the menu, there were loads of kids just runing in and out of the tables, whilst the parents just sat at their tables...seemingly oblivious to what their little darlings were doing! We couldn't see Brewster Bear anywhere... Read review

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Advantages: good for kids, consistent
Disadvantages: mayhem if lots of kids, food average

...UPDATED 8/2006 Sorry folks its now been demolished for a B&Q / Comet, however they are going to buld a new one nearby...watch this space!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well I'm sorry I'm going to have to disagree with some of the other Reviews on Brewsters, but it may be because here in Scotland we don't have so many 'family' orientated pubs, so when you find one its very welcome The Brewsters we use mostly is the Kingsgate Still at East Kilbride. We have occasionally been to another at Cambuslang. Its the same formula across the UK Brewster are run by Whitbread, after apparantly having carried out a lot of research about what families want from a pub/restaurant. They are not disimilar to Brewyers Fayre but with a play area The USP is that all (all I have ben... Read review

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