I stayed in this hotel with some of my friends since we planned on going to White Island the next day. It is only a 1/2 hour drive to Whakatane. When we pulled up it looked really dodgy and was a bit hard to find we drove up and down the street three times so a better sign would be nice. It didn't look like much from the outside and we were skeptical.
We checked in and the guy was very friendly and made us feel at home. Our worrying was useless becasue our 2 bedroom room was actually really nice and clean. The pool was right next to our room which also looked a bit unappealing. But after dinner we spend the whole evening in the pool becasue it was so warm and had a great time.
There is not much to say about Kawerau itself, so we bought food to cook in our room and as we were returning back to our room the man from the desk which I assume was the owner was loading other guests into his van and asked us as well if we'd like to go to Karaoke. We didn't especially since... more