A video about the reopening of the Rendezvous Hotel on Gloucester Street. The video includes a tour of the hotel and an interview with General Manager Brad Watts. Watts talks about his excitement about the hotel reopening.
Photo view from Pegasus Building of the Copthorne Hotel rubble and Crowne Plaza Hotel taken by Mike Gaudin, 25 November 2011.
Cracked facade. Corner Oxford Terrace, Worcester Street. Designed by Joseph Clarkson Maddison and built by J Otley, 1902.
Now open - on The Square
On the north east corner of Cathedral Square, the Commercial Hotel, owned by John Etherden Coker (1832 – 1894) was opened in 1863. The name Warner’s was not used until the hotel’s…
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Christchurch’s newest and grandest hotel in the first decade of the 1900s was the Clarendon Hotel situated on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street. It replaced the former two-sto…
Our managed isolation hotels are too posh and returnees should not be treated like hotel guests with luxuries like free menu choices and drycleaning. That's the verdict from New Zealand woman Toni Foster who has returned to the country to take up a job and has spent the past 11 days in isolation at Ellerslie's Novotel Hotel. Toni says she had expected to return to isolation in accommodation similar to the container village after the Christchurch earthquakes - not a free four or five star hotel which she said some returnees were treating as a holiday. She says returnees should not be treated like hotel guests because they're not paying a cent to be there.
A photograph of the partially-demolished Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of two excavators demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of two excavators demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of two excavators demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of two excavators demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of an excavator demolishing the Provincial Hotel.
A video of the reopening ceremony for the Heritage Hotel in Cathedral Square, which has been closed since the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The video shows Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae opening the building while a string trio plays. It also includes footage of a speech by the Governor General, and a tour of the hotel.
Another landmark hotel in Christchurch has been condemned because of earthquake damage.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Provincial Hotel.
A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Provincial Hotel.