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YHA Napier
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Address Details

Host: Bob Stansbury
277 Marine Parade,
Napier

+64 6 835 7039

+64 6 8354 641
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Rooms & Rates
Single
Twin
Double
Shared

Number of beds: 50

Beds from: NZ$22
Rooms from: NZ$37

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Operating Hours
Reception Hours:
8am - 9pm daily
Check out time: 10am
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Guest Services & Facilities
Closest food shop 100m 100m City/Town Centre 200m 250m Internet access at Hostel TV room in Hostel Common room in Hostel Self catering Luggage storage at Hostel Lockers available at Hostel Bicycle storage at Hostel BBQ

YHA Napier


Located on the beachfront close to Napier city centre the YHA Napier hostel has character, fantastic sea views (all the way to South America!), spacious rooms, cheerful staff and a convivial atmosphere. Originally a waterfront hotel this rambling survivor of the 1931 Napier earthquake is now a top rated backpacker hostel by Hostelworld.com customers.

Backpacker accommodation at YHA Napier includes comfortable twin, double, shared and single rooms. The Napier hostel has a well-equipped kitchen, attractive cobbled courtyard and BBQ area and a TV room with a video and DVD player. Take some time in the lounge to read the poems and messages fellow backpackers have left on stones collected from the beach.
 
There's plenty to do in Napier and around the Hawke’s Bay, YHA Napier staff are happy to help you plan art deco, wine, food, gannet or sightseeing tours. This backpackers is close to all Napier’s seaside attractions: National Aquarium, Marineland, Ocean Spa, Mini Golf and Museum.

YHA Napier is considered to be one of the best hostels in New Zealand due to its beachfront location, homely atmosphere and knowledgeable staff who are committed to ensuring you make the most from your stay in the Napier and Hawke’s Bay region. 

Special features at YHA Napier that backpackers love:


  • Literally just across the road from the Napier beach.
  • Great variety of backpacker accommodation including single rooms.
  • Very close to Napier city centre: shops, cinema, supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, bars, takeaways.
  • Internet access and Wireless network.
  • Deals and discounts on Art Deco tours negotiated with local Hawke’s Bay businesses as well as ‘insider’ information on the best available local wine and food tours.
  • Free Napier region tour maps for guests who wish to DIY with notes and guidance from staff.

About Napier


Savour this stylish Art Deco city of Napier bathed in the sparkling Mediterranean sunlight of Hawke’s Bay, surrounded by vineyards and the Heretaunga Plains known as ”the fruit bowl of New Zealand”. Napier was rebuilt in just two years after a devastating earthquake in 1931 and is now regarded as an Art Deco architectural gem. Napier is a city with style, surrounded by the fine vineyards of the Hawke’s Bay region and looking out to Cape Kidnappers, home of the beautiful and impressive gannet seabirds.

Much like a European seaside town there are many attractions in Napier for all ages - visit the National Aquarium, Marineland, local museums, cafes, or try para-sailing, ballooning, windsurfing, kayaking or mini golf. Alternatively just take your backpack off for a while and ‘chill out’ on the beach or in one of the many parks while soaking up the Napier sun. 

"Napier is one of New Zealand's most likeable regional centres" – The Rough Guide to New Zealand. 

Top activities to do while backpacking in Napier

  • Marvel at the authentic and charming Art Deco architecture of Napier, perhaps the world’s finest collection of Art Deco buildings in one town.
  • Sample some (or many) of the Hawke’s Bay regions many fabulous wines. Tours of Hawke’s Bay wineries can be arranged by the YHA Napier hostel staff.
  • Visit the gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers during the summer months.
  • Have fun with the whole family in the likeable town of Napier – the Aquarium, Marineland Dolphin Show and Mini Golf are all near the Napier hostel.

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Travel Tales

Napier Niceties

Other hostels in the region


How to get there...
Details
Car
Coming from North and West: State Highway 2 from Taupo and Gisborne. Take the 1st turn left after Napier Airport, cross the bridge over the Ahuriri Lagoon, turn left at the first roundabout (onto Hyderabad road), follow this road for approx 3kms through the intersection with a railway line, around a bluff, past the container port (i.e. Bridge St, then Breakwater Rd) onto Marine Parade. The YHA is 2 blocks after the small roundabout at No. 277 on the corner with Vautier St.

Coming from South: State Highway 2 leads directly onto Marine Parade at the city limit. YHA is 4 blocks after the bypass road at the corner with Vautier St.

Coming from South: State Highway 50: take the Kennedy Rd off ramp and turn right under the flyover on to Kennedy Rd, turn right at 3rd set of traffic lights (approx 3 kms), turn right at the 2nd roundabout and the first left into Vautier St. YHA is on the corner Vautier St and Marine Parade.
Bus/Shuttle
Turn left on Munroe St and almost immediately right at Edwardes St, turn left at Marine Parade and the YHA is on the next corner with Vautier St. (10 mins).
Plane
5km from Napier Domestic Airport.

Airport hire car: follow directions for car coming from North.

Airport shuttle: Super Shuttle freephone 0800 748885 we advise you book before flying.
Train
Ferry

Here's a taster of what's going on in this region, for a full list of events check out Event Finder

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Wednesday, 27 January 2010, Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery
Graphica Britannica

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Wednesday, 27 January 2010, Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery
Growing to Glory - Legends of Hawke's Bay Sport

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Wednesday, 27 January 2010, Napier
Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Wednesday, 27 January 2010, Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery
The Miniatures - Bren collection, by Stephanie Johnson

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Wednesday, 27 January 2010, Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery
Twentieth Century Design in the Home

Wednesday, 27 January 2010 - Wednesday, 27 January 2010, Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery
Nga Tukemata - The Awakening

Friday, 12 February 2010 - Friday, 12 February 2010, Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery
A Breath of Fresh Air: Art Deco’s Fashionable Legacy

Saturday, 13 February 2010 - Saturday, 13 February 2010, Mission Estate Winery
Mission Estate - The Motown Event

Saturday, 30 January 2010 - Saturday, 30 January 2010, Napier
Waimarama Maori Tourism Tours

Sunday, 15 November 2009 - Sunday, 15 November 2009, Napier
More FM Bloke Free Triathlon Series

Tuesday, 16 February 2010 - Tuesday, 16 February 2010, Napier Municipal Theatre
Gin-Holy Smoke Tour

Tuesday, 16 February 2010 - Tuesday, 16 February 2010, Taradale RSA
Country, Nostalga & War Era Songs with Joy Adams

Wednesday, 17 February 2010 - Wednesday, 17 February 2010, Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery
Learned Lecture “Local Heroes”

Thursday, 18 February 2010 - Thursday, 18 February 2010, Statements Gallery
'Deco Echo' Hats Exhibition

Friday, 19 February 2010 - Friday, 19 February 2010, Century Theatre
Century Cinema Silver Screen

Friday, 19 February 2010 - Friday, 19 February 2010, The Cabana
The Datsuns

Saturday, 20 February 2010 - Saturday, 20 February 2010, Century Theatre
Century Cinema Silver Screen

Saturday, 20 February 2010 - Saturday, 20 February 2010, The Cabana
Horusset - Music Video Release

Local Knowledge

Events

What to do

Visit the National Aquarium, local museums, Marineland Dolphin Show or why not try para-sailing, ballooning, windsurfing, kayaking or mini golf. Sunny Napier is a world recognised Art Deco architectural gem following its destruction by earthquake and fire in 1931. Napier is a city with style, surrounded by the fine vineyards of the Hawkes Bay region and looking out to Cape Kidnappers, home of the beautiful and impressive gannet seabird.
Discounts

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Further information

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Travel Packages

YHA New Zealand also has a range of short and long term budget travel packages designed for independent travellers of all ages, so there is something to suit everyone!
super clean and really friendly staff

HostelBookers, 23 January 2009

Location-opposite the beach and easy to get to the bus and main centre of town.

13 September 2008