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Where to eat and stay in Rotorua

263 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.

263venues mapped
172places to eat
91places to stay
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We hold 263 venues in Rotorua — 172 places to eat and 91 to stay. That is more than anywhere else in Bay of Plenty, and 25% of everything mapped across the region. Nationally it sits 5th out of 1,482 places.

Of the places to eat, 23% are cafés against a national figure of 28%. Rotorua skews 5 points away from cafés and towards restaurants, a pattern more typical of an evening trade. The full split is 39 cafés, 72 restaurants, 46 takeaways, 12 bars and 3 pubs.

90 of the 172 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are coffee shop (10), indian (9) and burger (8). Relative to the rest of the country Rotorua is unusually strong on breakfast, korean and mexican — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 32 publish opening hours (12%), 5 are recorded as step-free, 5 have outdoor seating and 8 flag vegetarian options. That trails the 23% national average — worth ringing ahead rather than trusting the listing.

For a bed, Rotorua runs to 91 listings — 17 hotels, 52 motels, 6 b&bs and guest houses, 9 hostels, 2 serviced apartments and 5 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 57% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 35% of everything mapped here, well above the 25% national share — the signature of a place that hosts more visitors than it has residents.

Places of a similar size — Dunedin (243), Queenstown (216), Palmerston North (187) and Nelson (185) — average 26% accommodation. Rotorua runs at 35%, noticeably more, which is what a place that takes in visitors looks like.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. 6 of the 263 venues in Rotorua carry at least six recorded attributes and so have a page of their own; the rest are listed here, because a page with only a name and a map pin on it would be worth nobody's time. A blank field means unrecorded, not absent. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, no venue has paid to appear, and we publish no ratings or reviews of our own.

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Cafés in Rotorua (39)

Restaurants in Rotorua (72)

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Takeaways in Rotorua (46)

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Bars in Rotorua (12)

Pubs in Rotorua (3)

Hotels in Rotorua (17)

Motels in Rotorua (52)

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B&Bs and guest houses in Rotorua (6)

Hostels in Rotorua (9)

Serviced apartments in Rotorua (2)

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Rotorua (5)

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Amit Sharma

Auckland real estate agent and social media marketer. I build these sites so the answer is free and the data is public.