Wellington Region · New Zealand
Where to stay in Lower Hutt
Lower Hutt is a city in Wellington Region, New Zealand, home to about 103,000 people. This guide covers 1 aparthotel in Lower Hutt.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- January and February
- Nearest airport
- WLG15 km · Wellington International Airport
- Currency
- NZDNew Zealand dollar
- Time zone
- Pacific/Auckland
- Language
- English, Māori, New Zealand Sign Language
About
About Lower Hutt
Lower Hutt (Māori: Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai) is a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington metropolitan area.
The early settlers that came to Wellington in 1840 first settled by the beach at Petone and then moved up the Hutt Valley, looking for suitable land for farming. Urbanisation in the lower Hutt Valley was concentrated mainly around Petone, central Lower Hutt and Eastbourne until the Second World War. From the 1940s, the government built several new suburbs, namely Epuni, Naenae and Taita, containing thousands of state-owned houses to alleviate both pre-war and post-war housing shortages.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Lower Hutt
See
- Dowse Art Gallery
- Matiu/Somes Island
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Lower Hutt
1 place to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay |
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| Quest Petone aparthotel |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Lower Hutt
10 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ava Lodge | 2.8 km | |
| BKs Premier Motel Esplanade Wellinton | 3.2 km | |
| Boulcott Lodge | 1.5 km | |
| Bristol Motel | 14.1 km | |
| Dupont Motels | 3.2 km | |
| Fernhill Motor Lodge | 1.9 km | |
| Foreshore Motor Lodge | 3.7 km | |
| Green Gables Motel | 1.4 km | |
| Midway Pacifica Lodge | 3.3 km | |
| Wallaceville Motor Lodge | 15.4 km |
All 11 hotels in Lower Hutt, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Lower Hutt
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Lower Hutt are January and February. February is the warmest month, with average highs of 21 °C; June is the wettest, with about 173 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Lower Hutt: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Wellington International Airport (WLG), about 15 km from the city centre in a straight line; Woodbourne Airport (BHE, 94 km) and Palmerston North Airport (PMR, 116 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
There are only four roads into and out of Lower Hutt. Three are part of the state highway system, and these all lie on the western bank of the Hutt River, with the fourth, Eastern Hutt Road, connecting Lower Hutt to Upper Hutt via Stokes Valley. There is a regular bus service between Wellington and Lower Hutt.
Getting around
Metlink runs regular bus services throughout Lower Hutt, serving suburbs not covered by the rail network. All but one bus route converges on the Lower Hutt Queensgate bus interchange, outside the Westfield Queensgate shopping mall on the corner of Queens Drive and Bunny Street in central Lower Hutt. All buses also connect to train services at either Taita, Waterloo or Petone stations.
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WLG · Wellington International Airport
BHE · Woodbourne Airport
PMR · Palmerston North Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Lower Hutt
Eat
Supermarkets are found in Stokes Valley (New World), Lower Hutt Central (Countdown x2, New World, Pak'nSave), Petone (Countdown and Pak'nSave) and Wainuiomata (Countdown).
Stay safe
The Hutt River occasionally floods the riverbank carparks and the area around Melling Bridge, near the railway station. Be prepared to park somewhere else during or after very heavy rain, as the river does rise quickly. Suburbs such as Naenae, Taita, Pomare and Stokes Valley tend to have reputations as lower socioeconomic zones due to these areas having been developed with a lot of state rental housing. However this is mostly a reputation that arises through a misunderstanding of the cultural differences between the wide variety of ethnic backgrounds of the inhabitants.
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Questions
Lower Hutt: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Lower Hutt?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Lower Hutt are January and February. February is the warmest month, with average highs of 21 °C; June is the wettest, with about 173 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Lower Hutt?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Wellington International Airport (WLG), about 15 km from the city centre in a straight line; Woodbourne Airport (BHE, 94 km) and Palmerston North Airport (PMR, 116 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Lower Hutt?
New Zealand dollar (NZD).
Nearby
Destinations near Lower Hutt
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.