Hotel St Clair

Hotel St Clair is a 26-room beachfront hotel at 24 Esplanade, St Clair, facing the Pacific on Dunedin's southern coast and only a few minutes' drive from the city centre. It suits leisure travellers, visiting executives and small groups who want a coastal base rather than a CBD address.

The property

The hotel describes itself as a split-level complex built around an open-air atrium, with rooms arranged to take advantage of the oceanfront aspect. Four room types are offered:

• Executive Studio Room
• Executive Ocean View Room
• Premier Ocean View Room
• Luxury Apartment with Ocean View

Rooms include bathrooms with heated floors, more than 50 Sky channels and wireless internet, which is free throughout the hotel.

Guest services

• Concierge service from 7.00am to 10.00pm daily
• Complimentary underground parking beneath the hotel
• Complimentary guest computer workstation in the lobby
• Daily room servicing, complimentary morning newspaper and wake-up calls on request
• Complimentary beach towels, plus complimentary use of the hot salt water pools opposite the hotel during the summer months
• Laundry and dry cleaning, and a rollaway bed on request, both at cost

Meetings and events

Hotel St Clair does not publish dedicated conference rooms, capacities or delegate packages on its website. Its relevance to the MICE market is therefore as accommodation and as a small-group or incentive base rather than as a conference venue: the underground parking, lobby workstation, concierge hours and beachfront setting suit executive stays, board-level retreats and incentive add-ons alongside events held elsewhere in Dunedin. Organisers needing meeting space should confirm what, if anything, can be arranged directly with the hotel.

Recognition

The hotel states that since opening it has received the New Zealand Hospitality Association Award of Excellence for Best New Hotel. No further award or rating detail is published on its site.

Suitability

Best considered for incentive programmes, executive and VIP accommodation, and small delegate blocks where a beachfront location close to the Otago Peninsula and the St Clair Esplanade is part of the appeal.