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Reviews of The Honest Lawyer, Ascend Hotel Collection

4 out of 5
The Honest Lawyer, Ascend Hotel Collection
1 Point Road, Nelson

Reviews

8.8

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 224 out of 458 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 180 out of 458 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 40 out of 458 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 10 out of 458 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 4 out of 458 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Todd

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Super convenient with comfortable room and a good restaurant for dinner.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lee

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This property is lovely olde world hotel. Furnishings not modern but in keeping with the theme of the place. Clean and quiet room. The food in the restaurant was delicious.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Michael

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Fantastic value for money, lovely room, very comfortable bed, lovely quaint grounds and the lunch was delicious. We will be back!
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

8/10 Good

Karen

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The honest lawyer was the perfect place to stay for an early departure at the Nelson airport – the best part was the friendly staff! Ian, the person that checked us in, was delightful – thank you!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

KEVIN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The highlight was definitely the restaurant meal. While room was tidy, good range of coffes, teas, continental breakfast, it was very small, especially the shower. Staff were friendly at both reception and in restaurant. Massive outdoor dining and family area. Definitely will be back.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2024

4/10 Poor

Alison, Grand Junction

Travelled with family
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Left after one night, too, too rustic! Ugh!
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2024

8/10 Good

Philip

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Nice beer garden by the sea
Stayed 8 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Hamish

Travelled with family, Business traveller, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Karen

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Linda

Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Marilynn

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is the most wonderful old English-style hotel with a fantastic restaurant and pub. The internet was awful but everything else more than made up for it. Highly recommend it.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Glen

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Love the quirkiness about this place, lovely food and beverages to enjoy. Accommodation was great!
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

ross

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really enjoyed my night at the honest lawyer, room was very nice and comfortable, spacious ,nice view.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Brad

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very quirky building, great bar and meals
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Gaynor

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Quite a quirky old school pub. We enjoyed our stay here

10/10 Excellent

MAUREEN

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely old style hotel in lovely garden and surroundings - so close to the airport to be able to walk.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Win and Lyn

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
We enjoyed the spaciousness of the room, facilities and atmosphere of the whole complex. The outside building maintenance has been neglected. The roof in particular needs attention. Very noticeable from our up stairs room. The window boxes would have added the finishing touches had they been planted. The outside grounds were looking quite tired. I appreciate that to maintain a complex as you have takes time and money with little return. We both enjoyed our short time with you and will definitely return for another stay some time. Many thanks, Kind regards, Lyn and Win Holdaway. I
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Ron

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
We were in cottage 15. Spacious room, bright and sunny room. Parking right outside
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Nick P

Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

Johnny

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Always great stay. Sure to be back again
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Johnny

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I thoroughly enjoyed my stay for the week I was there. My room was spacious and had everything I needed to make my stay a pleasure. Only little thing I was not too impressed with is that the continental breakfast is not quite continental enough. Sure to be back soon for my next business trip.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Maria

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Love the English style building, the service in general was really friendly, my room was just like in the pictures.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023

6/10 Okay

shawn

Liked: Staff & service
bathroom rooms needs a good clean and a re paint
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

8/10 Good

Andrea, San Diego

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We were early for checkin, they were very nice and took care of our things so we could go about the day. I dropped rental car at airport and walked back (25 min) to the hotel. We always walk when we can, unfortunately it was too far to walk to central Nelson. So we had a quiet night and had one of the best steaks ever at their pub. It was some hot stone thing, and the meat really exceeded our expectations. Especially since it was our only option, things close earlier than we're accustomed to, 7:30 to 8pm! The whole property has the cute cottage feeling. The room itself was nice, but old shower not so great with stained grout and stained shower curtain. Also, there was dusty spiderwebs w spider behind the bathroom door. The fan provided (no a/c) was very dusty. Quite a pile of dust clumps on carpet once I was done wiping it down with some tissues. Enough to bring my room grade from an A to a C . If they just clean a bit better and get new shower curtains, it'd be close to perfect! Checkout was just dropping keys in a box, we had to leave before desk hours.

10/10 Excellent

Claire

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Olde worlde charm with contemporary comfort, style
My one night stay was exactly the reward required after hiking the Heaphy track. I just loved the elegantly appointed room, my beautiful bath and the feeling that I was staying in someone's home albeit with the privacy my room afforded me. Full marks to the chef for producing a spectacular quinoa chicken salad. It was a memorable bowl of food. Take it as a compliment that I am going to try to recreate it at home but I know that it won't measure up. The only option is a return visit it appears!
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023

8/10 Good

Robert

Travelled with partner, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great staff and historic property, connected to great pub. Beautiful location. Quaint beer garden. Could use one more seating chair in room. Would definitely recommend this place.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

John

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

8/10 Good

Grant

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a wonderful destination. Will definitely be back
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

4/10 Poor

Angela

Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2023

8/10 Good

David

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

Rex

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

8/10 Good

Rex

Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Yvette

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Checked in late with ease.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

6/10 Okay

Jacobus

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness
comfortable
great location, lovely old building. Nice to have a pub and restaurant on site. Unfortunately we did have a case of something that bit us in the night. We purchased our own insect spray and requested clean linen
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2022

6/10 Okay

Peter

Liked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Out of Nelson
Nice Beergarden, location over all good.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2022

8/10 Good

Paul

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Nice view - when the tide is in. Very quiet in the mornings
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2022

8/10 Good

Tony

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities

10/10 Excellent

Chris

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really unique hotel. Right on the water and with a great pub and garden bar
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

10/10 Excellent

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
We'd be happy to stay at The Honest Lawyer again
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

10/10 Excellent

Sharon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice quaint hotel just out of the centre
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

8/10 Good

Robyn

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely historic property. Great food.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2022

8/10 Good

Anne

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
All good bar check in. No one at reception. Long wait for assistance, despite using buzzer multiple times. Room good size with parking outside a bonus. Complimently breakfast a nice surpise.

8/10 Good

Ron

Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

steve

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Theresa

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This hotel is gorgeous. The rooms are really lovely, the bed was very comfortable. Plenty of extra pillows and an extra duvet in the room. Everything you could possibly need was catered for. The shower had awesome pressure. Everything was clean, and it was an extremely comfortable stay. We booked two rooms, and our friends room had a clawfoot bath which was just gorgeous! Very happy with our stay and would definitely stay again.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

shelley

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We enjoyed the friendly, local staff and casual old style ambience of the property. The room was comfortable and quiet. We would definately stay there again.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022

4/10 Poor

Alison

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
While our room was clean, quiet and the beds very comfortable, the inexperience of the staff left us with an overall feeling of disappointment. We had to navigate our way through the hotel to find someone to check us in and there was no apology or courtesy. We did not feel valued. The hotel is old fashioned in respect of defference to the environment and the only sign of any respect to it was Forest and Bird shampoo etc, in small plastic bottles that are thrown away. In these times thats not good enough. They could do a lot better. The parking area was full of potholes that turned into lakes in the rain making it impossible to keep dry feet while getting into a vehicle. Overall a very average experience.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2022