$1,000,000 Worth Of Luxury For Gisborne

The palatial new Dominion Breweries Hotel in Tyn-dall Road, Kaiti, is now open. Luxurious rooms, restaurant, lounges and bars are indeed spacious.

Twenty-six twin rooms and an executive suite, all with private facilities, plus piped music, radio, TV, and telephone, provide accommodation for 56. Top quality furniture and carpets throughout, with beautiful mahogany suites in the units set the keynote for a million dollars' worth of luxury.

Four bars (house, sportsman's, quiet social, and music and entertainment) provide differing facilities for social drinking. The 40,000 square foot complex was designed by local architects Glengarry, Corson & Pilbrow, and built by J. L. McMillan and Lockwood Ltd. with local firms doing the subcontracting.

An aerial view of the new hotel shows the Huxley Road guest entrance (along the bottom of the picture), with the bar entrances facing Tyndall Road at the right.

On hand to greet guests are receptionists Miss Mary-Anne Bretherton, Mrs Diana Thurston and Mrs Lynsey Grant. At right are hotel manager Mr Frank O'Halloran and head receptionist Mrs Tua Cross.

Year-round swimming is provided by the controlled heat swimming pool

The bar entrances, facing Tyndall Road

Local history and places have been incorporated in naming various areas of the hotel. This is part of the spacious Wainui Bar which features large murals of Waikanae Beach (shown) and the Turanganui River.

The sumptuously furnished guest lounge is named the Endeavour Room. The glass panels in translucent green separate this area from the restaurant, and are also used to the same effect in other areas

Part of the restaurant which is named the Resolution Room. It is open until 10 p.m. and h as facilities also for dine and dance

The auxiliary kitchen provides immediate breakfast service (cooked or Continental) in the accommodation wing. . .

. . . if you are occupying one of these luxury units. Bath and toilet are to the right of this picture in this unit

Still in the same room we see the beautiful mahogany unit, and TV. Note the well-lit large mirror. The amazing part of all this is that the room charge is only $10.00 a day For 2 Persons

If you really feel flush you can take the executive suite

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 201 : March 24, 1971

$1,000,000 Worth Of Luxury For Gisborne