Where to eat and stay in Whangamatā
29 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Whangamatā, Waikato — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.
We hold 29 venues in Whangamatā — 24 places to eat and 5 to stay. That makes it the 12th-largest of the 160 towns and suburbs we cover in Waikato, carrying 2% of the region's venues.
Of the places to eat, 42% are cafés against a national figure of 28%. Whangamatā is 14 points more café-heavy than the country as a whole, which usually points to daytime and weekend trade rather than an evening dining scene. The full split is 10 cafés, 7 restaurants, 6 takeaways and 1 bars.
9 of the 24 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are coffee shop (2), pizza (2) and burger (1). None of them is far out of line with the national picture; the mix here is broad rather than specialised.
On the practical detail: 11 have outdoor seating and 3 flag vegetarian options. That trails the 23% national average — worth ringing ahead rather than trusting the listing.
For a bed, Whangamatā runs to 5 listings — 4 motels and 1 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 80% of the town's accommodation.
Places of a similar size — Strathmore Park (29), Stonefields (29), Tōtara Vale (29) and Hibiscus Coast (30) — average 8% accommodation. Whangamatā runs at 17%, 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. No venue in Whangamatā yet carries the six recorded attributes needed for its own page, so 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 Whangamatā (10)
- Port Road Project
- Black Trailer Bakery
- #LuvCoffee
- Flight Coffee
- Bach
- Chill Cafe
- Paradise Bakery & Cafe
- Sweet Tooth
- Blackies Cafe
- Whanga Bar & Café
Restaurants in Whangamatā (7)
- Craft Haus
- Turkish Master Kebab
- Kafal
- Minato
- Cinema Lane
- Kallista
- Smoky Pallet
Takeaways in Whangamatā (6)
- soulburger
- Subway
- Buns&Base
- Neros Pizza
- Sea & Salt Takeaways
- Sliced Pizzeria
Bars in Whangamatā (1)
- Rassasy
Motels in Whangamatā (4)
- Southpacific Motel & Conference Centre
- Blake Court Motel
- Palm Pacific Resort Motel
- Breakers Motel
Holiday parks and campgrounds in Whangamatā (1)
- Whangamata Motor Camp