We stayed here for 4 nights in October 2008 as part of a New Zealand group tour. Without doubt your view of this hotel will depend on whether you’re sleeping in one of the tower block’s 73 rooms/suites or in one of the 78 motel-style rooms next door. We were in the tower block, where the rooms are basically OK,... more

Had to attend a conference in Palmerston North & stayed 3 nights here. The hotel is about 3* on the international scale. The room was clean & tidy but small & the hotel has limited choices to eat & drink. The staff were friendly & helpful but sparse. I.E. - there was no porter service & we had to carry... more

I was allocated a room in the 'annex', which comprises two additional blocks behind the main hotel building. These are two-storey structures with exterior walkways reminiscent of a cheap motel. The room itself provided basic amenities and was clean, but there was a smell of mildew, and the curtain linings were mildewed and torn. There is no mini-bar provided, but... more

After seeing the previous reviews for this hotel I have to say that I was rather reluctant to go to this place but due to management responses that a renovation had taken place I decided to give it a second chance to redeem itself. Well upon driving in the entrance I have to say my thought was "Oh no" as... more

We have just got back from a 2 night stay at the Kingsgate Hotel in Palmerston North . The Check in went well, and the staff are friendly, and the lobby is really nice, and clean with tiles on the floor and it looks nice and new and clean, but its another one of those "get people in the door... more

This hotel has two clear parts, The Tower which I am told by collegues is the new part and the 'Original Hotel' which is from the 60's-70's and where I stayed. The room I stayed in was extermly poor with stains on the carpets and furniture. I found mold growing on the back of the curtains by for me the... more

There are quite a few nice hotels in Palmerston North. Unfortunately the Kingsgate is not one of them! We were booked in here by a company based in Wellington for a conference. We had a family room in the OLD part of the hotel built maybe in the 1950s or 1960s and possibly refurbished in the 1970s. The sofa bed... more

A nice clean tidy hotel. The rooms are ok. Some of the rooms are a bit dated. Get a room in the tower block if you can. They seem to be of oa higher standard than rooms in the other parts of the complex.The food in the resturants is excellent. more