Apartments on Upton

Clean, comfortable, view, kitchen, laundry

Spacious apartment Cosy and warm Lovely kitchen

Very nice unit: spacious, modern, upscale. Location was good. Walkable to town center, supermarket, beach.

Parking was a little confusing since we were in an unit designated as disability friendly. This meant we couldn't park right in front of our unit.

The location is approx a 10-15min walk into Wanaka town and just under a 10min walk to the lake front. I think if you just needed a couple of nights to stay somewhere with a kitchen and wanted somewhere a bit nicer than a motel, this is probably the place for you. We stayed for 4 nights. The check in process was easy enough, you pick the keys up from a different accommodation place. Having a near full kitchen was nice. The lounge area was spacious as was the room and walk in wardrobe. The bathroom was of adequate size also. Kitchen had all the basic utensils required as well as a medium sized fridge with a proper freezer compartment. There is no dish washer in the upstairs apartment. There are no set car parks for each apartment so it's first in first serve, there are plenty of street parks though.

We had an upstairs apartment. The base of the stairs had a door that led to the downstairs apartment. Although it was locked, it felt a bit strange and insecure. It also meant that you could smell whatever food they were eating, we experienced an unpleasant odour of greasy fish and chips on our first night. The apartment appeared nice on surface level however small things made it lacking in the overall ambiance of the accommodation, especially given how much it costed (approximately $290/night when we stayed). I would have expected things like facial tissues and for the ceiling of the bathroom to be cleaned (it was a low ceiling and was dotted with dead gnats). Due to the style of shower drain, it meant each morning, there would be a stale water smell from it. Thankfully the bathroom had a good working extractor fan and window which we put to use to prevent any smells from getting worse. The beds we found to be very soft as well.

Warm with nice decor, comfortable bed and bedding, lovely towels, nice layout.

Some of the cups were dirty and the bench a little dirty. I thought there was supposed to be SKY television in the unit ( even the information folder gave instructions for using it) but there wasn’t. Also no dishwasher. But having the clothes washer was good. Unfortunately there was a flood downstairs in the apartment below and the tiles at the bottom of the stairs were covered in water about 2cm deep. Luckily I noticed before I took my last step down onto them, as it could have been a nasty accident. I was carrying luggage and it was very slippery. I think management should have warned us about this potential hazard. There is a connecting door between the apartments at the bottom of the stairwell, which is why the water was present. The people in the downstairs apartment said that there had been a leak in a water pipe underneath the sink. They were busy trying to mop up water. Someone had been to fix the leak, but where were the clean up crew? I used towels from our apartment to soak up some of the water to make it safer to walk across the tiles.