Stumpers Accommodation is a hotel at 2 Weld Street in central Hokitika, on the West Coast of the South Island, with 22 recently refurbished Studio Rooms across Premium, Standard and Economy grades. It sits on the same town-centre corner that has hosted a hotel since the 1800s, and today combines full-service rooms with an on-site Bar and Cafe under one roof.
The hotel is set up for both holidaymakers and longer-term stayers. Rooms come with kitchenettes, flat screen TVs and ensuites, and the property offers free Wifi, free off-street parking, full on-site laundry facilities, and interconnecting rooms for families by request. Special access rooms with full disability facilities are available on the ground floor.
Stumpers also caters specifically to contractors and workpeople, offering corporate and contractor rates for regular and long-term stayers that can include cooked or prepacked breakfast, cut lunch and an evening meal by arrangement. The current building opened at Labour Weekend 2001, with Premium rooms added in 2011 and all other rooms upgraded in 2017, continuing a long line of hotels on the Weld and Revell Street corner going back to the 1860s.
Stumpers Accommodation sits on the corner of Weld and Revell Streets in central Hokitika, a site with a long history of hosting hotels in the town. Today's Stumpers offers 22 recently refurbished Studio Rooms across three grades — Premium, Standard and Economy — combined with a full-service Bar and Cafe on site, so everything guests need is under one roof in the town centre.
The location has carried a hotel of some kind since at least 1875, when Linemahon's Mixed Importers occupied the corner. That building burnt down in 1898, and a new site for Keller's Hotel was later built there, with the Westland Hotel name first used by proprietor Jane Henderson back in 1866. The Westland was one of Hokitika's dominant social spots for decades, changing hands over the years including a revival in the 1960s under Mick and Joyce Sullivan, before it wound down in the 1990s and finally closed in 2000.
Stumpers opened on the same corner at Labour Weekend 2001, after demolition and rebuilding created a new Cafe and Bar. Premium rooms were added in 2011, and all other rooms were upgraded in 2017, bringing the current lineup of 22 modern Studio Rooms.
The Premium Studio rooms offer Super King, Super King plus Single, Queen or Twin luxury beds, sleeping two or three, with flat screen TVs, electric blankets, an ensuite with hairdryer, and a full kitchenette including a microwave and toaster. Special access rooms with full disability facilities are available on the ground floor.
Standard Studio rooms offer Queen or Twin beds with an ensuite and a kitchenette with tea and coffee facilities and a fridge, while Economy Studio rooms offer a Queen bed with ensuite and use of a shared kitchenette. Interconnecting rooms are available across the range for families travelling together, on request.
Stumpers specifically welcomes contractors and workpeople, offering a corporate and contractor rate on request for regular and long-term stayers. That rate can include cooked or prepacked breakfast, cut lunch and an evening meal — a detail that sets Stumpers apart from a typical short-stay hotel and reflects its role serving Hokitika's working visitors as well as tourists.
Guests get free Wifi throughout, Freeview TV with eight channels, free off-street parking, and full laundry facilities on site. Combined with the on-site Bar and Cafe, it means guests rarely need to leave the property during their stay unless they want to explore the rest of Hokitika.
Stumpers Bar and Cafe is now a busy hub for both locals and tourists, continuing the role the old Westland Hotel played in the town for generations. For anyone visiting Hokitika and the wider West Coast, it offers a town-centre base with everything — bed, food and drink — in one place.