Eating and staying in Manawatū-Whanganui
649 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 86 towns and suburbs in Manawatū-Whanganui.
Manawatū-Whanganui accounts for 4% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 8th-largest of the 17 regions by venue count. Those 649 venues sit across 86 named towns and suburbs, of which 5 carry at least 20 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is relatively even: Palmerston North (187), Whanganui (77) and Ohakune (47) hold 48% of everything between them. The remaining 81 places average 3.3 venues each — a long tail of small settlements that we list on the nearest town page rather than give an empty page to.
The regional split runs 65% eating to 41% accommodation, against a national 75/25. That is a markedly higher share of accommodation than the country as a whole — the mark of a region that hosts visitors rather than only feeding residents.
208 venues in Manawatū-Whanganui carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on turkish (6), fish and chips (21) and burger (27).
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 121 venues here publish opening hours (19% against 23% nationally), 186 list a website, and 15 record step-free access. Everything on this site comes from open data, so coverage reflects what mappers and councils have published — not what exists on the ground.
The category split
| Restaurants | 140 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 22% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 4,558 |
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| Takeaways | 132 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 20% of the region · 4% of New Zealand's 3,742 |
| Cafés | 106 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 16% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 3,648 |
| Motels | 93 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 14% of the region · 8% of New Zealand's 1,152 |
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 90 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 14% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 1,337 |
| Pubs | 35 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 5% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 623 |
| Hotels | 35 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 5% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 775 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 21 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 3% of the region · 4% of New Zealand's 478 |
| Hostels | 20 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 3% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 414 |
| Bars | 12 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 2% of the region · 2% of New Zealand's 649 |
| Serviced apartments | 9 in Manawatū-Whanganui · 1% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 282 |
Sideline covers the same region for sport — gyms and clubs in Manawatū-Whanganui →
Towns and suburbs in Manawatū-Whanganui
A further 81 smaller places in Manawatū-Whanganui carry fewer than 20 venues each. Rather than publish a page with nothing to say, we list their venues on the town pages nearest them.