Madeira Hotel — Restaurant in Banks Peninsula Community

After a week on the road camping in a tent my partner and I decided to get a room somewhere in Akaroa as rain had set in and we needed a good rest. Not surprisingly everywhere seemed booked out. One last try for a room at the Madeira Hotel was an ill fated error.||They had most rooms available, now I know why! ||Firstly we had to change rooms as it hadn't been serviced and we were shown a couple more rooms also not serviced with bedding in piles. The room we finally got, with a made bed, was directly above the bar. I was told the bar closed at 11 however a very noisy private party carried on after this keeping us awake until around 2pm or more! Finally it seemed to go quiet with the music off until the rowdy staff and their friends noisily came up to the adjacent rooms calling out and banging doors and generally disregarding the fact that there might be paying guests trying to sleep.||At the crack of dawn the loudest emergency alarms I've ever heard startled us out of sleep. I ran outside the room. A member of staff had emerged from his room looking worse for wear and some random bloke stuck his head up from the stairs and announced he'd climbed through the bottle store to get in and set the alarms off and then disappeared. The bar guy withdrew into his room without a word and that was it, no further explanation. Obviously the emergency alarm procedure notices in the rooms can be disregarded. ||And to top it all off after leaving extremely annoyed and with little to no sleep for $40 each we discovered we now had contracted bed bugs!!! and were bitten all over. After an otherwise lovely trip around NZ we were disappointed to have ended it with scratching all the way back to Aus on the plane the following day. Bed bugs are the worst and so is this hotel. I usually wouldn't write reviews particularly negative ones but I seriously would rather have slept in the car than to have stayed...

After a week on the road camping in a tent my partner and I decided to get a room somewhere in Akaroa as rain had set in and we needed a good rest. Not surprisingly everywhere seemed booked out. One last try for a room at the Madeira Hotel was an ill fated error.||They had most rooms available, now I know why! ||Firstly we had to change rooms as it hadn't been serviced and we were shown a couple more rooms also not serviced with bedding in piles. The room we finally got, with a made bed, was directly above the bar. I was told the bar closed at 11 however a very noisy private party carried on after this keeping us awake until around 2pm or more! Finally it seemed to go quiet with the music off until the rowdy staff and their friends noisily came up to the adjacent rooms calling out and banging doors and generally disregarding the fact that there might be paying guests trying to sleep.||At the crack of dawn the loudest emergency alarms I've ever heard startled us out of sleep. I ran outside the room. A member of staff had emerged from his room looking worse for wear and some random bloke stuck his head up from the stairs and announced he'd climbed through the bottle store to get in and set the alarms off and then disappeared. The bar guy withdrew into his room without a word and that was it, no further explanation. Obviously the emergency alarm procedure notices in the rooms can be disregarded. ||And to top it all off after leaving extremely annoyed and with little to no sleep for $40 each we discovered we now had contracted bed bugs!!! and were bitten all over. After an otherwise lovely trip around NZ we were disappointed to have ended it with scratching all the way back to Aus on the plane the following day. Bed bugs are the worst and so is this hotel. I usually wouldn't write reviews particularly negative ones but I seriously would rather have slept in the car than to have stayed...

A pleasant hotel with better than expected meals for a very reasonable price. Searched plenty of Akaroa eateries before choosing The Madeira Hotel for lunch. First lunch we tried was the pasta of the day’Blue Vein Cheese & Walnut Sea Shell Pasta’. Made by the Gods it was perfect & looked as though each & every sea shell had been hand filled with its own walnut. The serving was generous & we both required a doggy bag. $18 a serve.||The next day we were drawn back to The Madeira Hotel to try the Lamb Salad. Perfectly cooked lamb fillet sliced atop mesculin, haloumi, roast kumara, pumpkin seeds & homemade dressings. Devine!||Kid you not, we went back for lunch again on our 3rd & final day at Akaroa. This time we differed in our choices. The Blue Vein Angus Beef burger with caramelised onion was too much for me to resist, and it was spectacular. A feast of flavours, succulent beef. My friend tried the Blue Cod & chips which was declared beautiful, melt in your mouth, nice batter, perfect!||Nobody returns again and again unless they are completely satisfied with an establishment. The staff were friendly, charming and unpretentious. Inadvertently left my cap there the 1st visit; they kept it behind the bar & handed it back at my enquiry. ||The Madeira Hotel would be our local if we...