Wellington's Premier Destination

Where Wellington's Edge Meets Tomorrow

Positioned where Lambton Quay's energy dissolves into the harbour breeze, rewrites what a casino hotel can be in the Southern Hemisphere. Every floor, every surface and every service supports a refined casino experience, while the stay itself still feels like a harbourfront discovery.

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Harbour-Frame Architecture

Every guest room above the 12th floor is angled precisely 14 degrees toward Evans Bay, ensuring unobstructed water views regardless of floor position - a structural decision made during the original build, not retrofitted.

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Casino Atmosphere, Wellington Calm

The casino floor is planned around steady airflow, soft acoustics and carefully zoned light, so every casino visit feels polished even during Wellington's busiest harbour evenings.

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Living Lantern Facade

The exterior incorporates 3,400 individually programmable light panels inspired by the paper lantern traditions brought to Wellington through its Pacific and Asian communities - visible from the Interislander ferry on clear nights.

Accommodations

Rooms & Suites

Luxurious retreats crafted for casino weekends, business stays and harbour-view escapes

Lambton Loft Dual-Aspect Glazing
★★★★★

Lambton Loft

Floor-to-ceiling glazing on two walls means the city's working rhythm - the cable car ascending Kelburn, the parliamentary precinct lights at dusk - becomes living wallpaper rather than something you have to seek out. The room is furnished in blackened rimu timber and brushed volcanic stone sourced from the Kapiti Coast, materials that age with the same quiet confidence the city itself projects.

$320/night
Cook Strait Suite Curved Corner Panorama Most Popular
★★★★★

Cook Strait Suite

Occupying a curved corner position on level 18, this suite bends around the building's north-east edge so the bed, the writing desk, and the deep-soak bath each face a different arc of the same harbour panorama. Acoustic engineering keeps the suite at library-quiet decibels even during peak Courtenay Place evenings below - silence delivered with the precision of a sound studio.

$680/night
Te Aro Penthouse Rotating Art Commission
★★★★★

Te Aro Penthouse

Named for the suburb that has quietly become New Zealand's most creatively dense neighbourhood, the penthouse occupies the entire 22nd floor and features a 40-square-metre terrace with a heated deck surface that stays usable even in Wellington's sharp southerly months. Inside, the penthouse holds a rotating collection of works commissioned from New Zealand artists - the art changes every quarter, meaning returning guests always encounter something new.

$1,450/night
Guest Reviews

What Our Guests Say

★★★★★

"I came to Wellington for a conference at Te Papa and added two nights at almost as an afterthought. What I did not expect was to spend three hours on my room's terrace at sunset watching the harbour light change in a way I have genuinely never seen from a hotel anywhere. I have already blocked dates to return in autumn specifically to see the city from that same vantage point in different weather."

Priya S. Melbourne, Australia
★★★★★

"The Cook Strait Suite is the quietest room I have ever stayed in while being in the middle of a capital city - and I travel to six or seven cities a year for work, so that is not a casual observation. The casino floor downstairs felt equally composed, and the rotating art in the penthouse corridor caught me off guard on my way to a dinner meeting. Rare that a hotel makes you slow down rather than speed up."

James O. London, United Kingdom
★★★★★

"My family visits New Zealand every two years and we have stayed at many properties in Auckland and Queenstown, but Wellington was new for us this trip. The Ahi Kā restaurant introduced my children to Māori food traditions in a way that felt respectful and genuinely educational, not performative. gave us a version of New Zealand we had never accessed before, and that is the only thing I want from a hotel."

Kenji T. Tokyo, Japan
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The Casino

The casino floor spans 2,800 square metres across two connected levels, housing 340 electronic gaming machines alongside 24 dedicated table positions. The casino layout is scaled so the room never feels cavernous or crowded, regardless of the hour. Lighting designers from Auckland and Berlin created a casino atmosphere that shifts colour temperature every 90 minutes, keeping the space alert without aggressive brightness. For visitors, the casino brings together table games, electronic play and social lounges in one polished Wellington setting. The casino also attracts a cosmopolitan crowd: Te Papa delegates, corporate travellers and loyal local members who treat the space as a genuine social venue.

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World-Class Amenities

24-Hour Fitness Studio with altitude-simulation training pods and live performance tracking dashboards
Rooftop Garden Terrace - planted with native New Zealand species, open to guests year-round with heated seating alcoves
Private Screening Room - 22-seat theatre with 4K laser projection, available for individual bookings or group events
Business Hub with six acoustically isolated meeting pods, high-speed fibre connectivity, and on-demand AV technician support
Wellington Concierge Collective - a dedicated team with lived knowledge of every neighbourhood from Newtown to Petone
In-Room Technology Suite featuring programmable circadian lighting, a motorised blackout system, and a 75-inch architectural display wall
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Welcome

is the only property in Wellington where a purpose-built casino floor, chef-driven dining rooms and architecturally distinct guest quarters share a single interconnected vertical footprint - no two experiences are separated by more than a lift ride. The hotel draws from Wellington's identity as New Zealand's cultural capital: the raw wind off Cook Strait, the luminous quality of light that painters have chased for a century, and the city's reputation for thinking several moves ahead of the rest of the country. Guests can move from a casino visit to dinner, skyline views and rest without leaving the building, making the unexpected feel like the standard.

3,000+ Slot Machines
500+ Hotel Rooms
6 Restaurants
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Cuisine

Fine Dining

Executive Chef Mara Tūhoe builds every menu around what New Zealand's seasonal supply chain can actually deliver at its peak - not what a generic luxury hotel template suggests should be on the plate - which means the kitchen changes its core offerings eight times across the calendar year. 's two dining rooms - Ahi Kā on the ground floor, serving open-fire Māori-influenced kai, and Meridian on level 9, presenting precision tasting menus with a Pacific Rim lens - ensure that guests with opposite appetites never have to compromise. The atmosphere in both spaces was designed by the same studio behind Wellington's most-talked-about restaurant openings of the past five years, so the rooms feel like destinations in their own right rather than hotel restaurants guests tolerate between activities.

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Contact & Location

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