Central Motel
Location: Central Motel. Avarua, Rarotonga, ck
Star Rating: 7.3 Stars
Property Type: Motels
About this Property
Onsite Spa Pool and 24/7 Front Desk
Central Motel in the Avarua district offers guests a relaxing stay with its onsite spa pool and round-the-clock front desk service. Unwind in the spa pool after a day of exploring the beautiful Rarotonga.
Convenient Location and Easy Access to Amenities
Located just 10 minutes from the airport, Central Motel is centrally positioned for easy access to shops, cafes, restaurants, and government offices. Explore the vibrant neighborhood on foot and immerse yourself in the local culture.
Personalized Services and Tour Assistance
Experience personalized service at Central Motel where all guests are warmly welcomed upon arrival. Take advantage of onsite car, bike, and scooter hire, and easily book tours, flights to outer islands, and airport transfers. The friendly staff is always ready to assist with your travel needs.
Book your stay at Central Motel now for a memorable and convenient experience in Rarotonga!
Important Information
Guests must provide their flight arrival and departure numbers so that airport pick up can be arranged.
WiFi access is available for an extra charge of 10 cents per MB.Please inform of your expected arrival time in advance. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly using the contact details in your confirmation.
Policies
Check-in: 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Check-out: 10:00 AM
Amenities & Facilities
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Non-smoking rooms
- Air conditioning
- Swimming pool
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Non-smoking throughout
- Adult only
- Outdoor furniture
- Staff adhere to local safety protocols
- Guest rooms disinfected between stays
- Cleaning standards that are effective against Coronavirus
- Hand sanitizer in guest room and key areas
- Cashless payment available
- Fire extinguishers
- First aid kit available
- Sanitized tableware & silverware
- Invoice provided
- Guests can opt-out any cleaning services during stay
- Food delivered to guest room
- Access to health care professionals
- 24-hour security
- Delivered food - securely covered
- Television in common areas
- Free wired internet
- Golfing on site
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Beach umbrellas
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Internet access
- Housekeeping on request
- Exercise/lap pool
- Japanese garden
- Covered parking
- Secured parking
- Swimming nearby
Rooms Available
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Standard Twin Room
Featuring free toiletries, this twin room includes a private bathroom with a walk-in shower and a hairdryer. This wheelchair accessible twin room has a private entrance, a seating area with a flat-screen TV and a shower chair. The unit has 2 beds.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Minibar
- Shower
- TV
- Hair dryer
- Refrigerator
- Desk
- Seating Area
- Toilet
- Microwave
- Private bathroom
- Interconnected room(s) available
- Private entrance
- Tile/marble floor
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Toaster
- Linen
- Outdoor dining area
- Clothes rack
- Toilet paper
- Shower chair
- Plunge pool
- Bottle of water
- Trash cans
- Wine glasses
- Shampoo
- Conditioner
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Mobile hotspot device
- Key access
- Window
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Double Room
This air-conditioned double room has a desk, an outdoor dining area, garden views and a private bathroom. The unit has 1 bed.
Max Occupancy: 2 (2 Adults)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Minibar
- Shower
- TV
- Air conditioning
- Hair dryer
- Refrigerator
- Desk
- Seating Area
- Toilet
- Microwave
- Private bathroom
- Interconnected room(s) available
- Private entrance
- Tile/marble floor
- Electric kettle
- Wardrobe or closet
- Toaster
- Linen
- Outdoor dining area
- Clothes rack
- Toilet paper
- Shower chair
- Plunge pool
- Bottle of water
- Trash cans
- Wine glasses
- Shampoo
- Conditioner
- Body soap
- Socket near the bed
- Mobile hotspot device
- Key access
- Window
Guest Reviews
- Erik (8/5): -
- Jiri (9/5): Great location close to restaurants and shops - Great location close to restaurants and shops. Spacious room with everything needed such as AC, microwave, elektric kettle and chairs. WiFi was slow
- Jennifer (7/5): -
- Jason Taumanu (10/5): -
- Ulli (9/5): Good place for the price. - It was Centrally located. The rooms were nice and comfortable. It looks a little bit rundown, but it is OK for the price. The cleaning maid was very nice and helped me with a parcel to send back to Germany. I arrived on a Sunday morning and there was nobody there to check me in and give me the Wi-Fi pass code. I was not able to get Wi-Fi from Vodafone. Very weird. They said they ran out of passcodes.
- Alan (8/5): Good location, friendly staff, however needs some work on outside building presentation - The outside of the hotel needs some work. The state of the lattice in front of the building is not good. The upper level needs a paint job.
- Jennifer (6/5): -
- Jennifer (5/5): Ok but our problems need to be addressed for our return one night stay. - Good location. No TV controller so couldn’t see any news.
Unable to get hot water to our shower unit.
No staff available to unlock our unit upon arrival as key was locked inside the unit!
- Rob (8/5): Simple, clean, and comfortable—an easy, budget-friendly stop close to the airport - We stayed here for one night after arriving on late flight in from NZ and heading out to Aitutaki the following day. The room is dated but clean and the bed was very comfortable. Check in and out was a breeze. This is basic accommodation. If you are looking for a low cost place close to the airport and town for a night or 2 then this place is fine.
- Teannaki (8/5): good for money value - The room size is bigger than I expect and the location is right in the middle of the town. The fencing from outside can discourage visitors and it seems that the motel is about to close down.
- Celia (9/5): Always nice and convenient to everything - Love the hostess she's wonderful There was only beer in the fridge. I don't drink beer or alcohol
- Tepaki (8/5): -
- Tokilupe (7/5): Good Place 👍 - The house was near town, clean and very affordable Doesn't have a wifi.
- Solomone (6/5): Reasonable - Location. Outside needs a deep clean and a paint brush.
- Meiva (3/5): I survived. - it was right in the centre of town it was really run down
- Sela (7/5): -
- Tora (5/5): Enjoyed my stay - Spacious, quite, safe and convenient bath tap
- Melissa (1/5): -
- turua (10/5): fantastic place to stay - Communication was great, the lady managing is fantastic and friendly, helpful and approachable. Its a great spot and a great price.
- Richard (7/5): -
- Caleb (10/5): -
- Donna (10/5): -
- Anthemis (2/5): I recommend paying more for another hotel. - The light outside stays on all night, the curtains are not occultant so you will sleep in a fully lighted room.
The room was not particularly clean, especially the bathroom.
If you do meet an employee they will not help you get your transport sorted. There is a phone at the reception, however it closes before 3pm.
- yan (8/5): 推荐 - 有空调,晚上到达后过渡酒店,房间挺大的, 设施有点老旧
- Moana (3/5): The host left great instructions for the rooms and where the keys were. The host was great she really was. Overall give - Location was handy to town, bars and eateries. The property was clean. You can just walk to all the amenities.
This accommodation is well tucked away right next to Raro fried chicken. The pool was not a pool. But if you’re looking for a low budget accommodation then this place would be okay.
Maybe suitable for backpackers.
- Kelby (4/5): -
- Naomi (8/5): I found Rosella to be a competent and friendly host who was willing to make my stay very relaxing. - I was very pleased with Rosella the manager who was very helpful with my enquires. She was very consistent with allowing myself to come and go as I pleased and offered her assistance when required. Overall, I would be happy to stay at the motel in the near future.
- Barbara (4/5): CORRECT - MOTEL TRES BIEN SITUE
CHAMBRE TRES PROPRE L'EXTERIEUR EST TRES MAL ENTRETENU.A BESOIN D'ETRE ENTIEREMENT NETTOYE DEVRAIT ETRE RENOVE.
- Stephanie (4/5): Needs a good clean, great location. - Location was great. Room was dirty, so much that I cleaned the bathroom and floors myself. Gross. The bathroom in addition had pubic hairs and other hairs from previous guests. One of the pillows had lipstick marks on it. The sheets hadn't been changed from the previous guests, the were stains and pubic hairs on them. The location was great and served it's purpose but wouldn't stay again. The cleanliness. Or lack of. The floors haven't been cleaned in a long time. There are tiles so easy to clean too
- Tueteretere (8/5): -
- Luitzen (10/5): Great and convenient location -
- Clovis (8/5): -
- John (10/5): -
- Akanksha (5/5): - Was clean and the location was convenient. Geckos roaming and the noise.
- Hiroshi (8/5): -
- Manakiwai (10/5): -
- Marina (5/5): While the room was very tired looking it was in a great location - Location is great
Check in and out very simple
Bed was good and pillow options good
Great air conditioning
Access to fresh towels etc was good
Hosts were good The pictures online did not reflect the motel.
It would be good to have mosiquito deterants in the room as I was servely bitten.
It is very tired looking and requires a makeover i.e fresh paint, bathroom makeover
It would be good to have an airing rack for clothes
May I suggest installing soap and shampoo/conditioner dispensers in shower and on vanity
- Isaia (5/5): -
- Smith (6/5): Okay but with some faults - Good location Light on all night outside with thin curtains made it difficult to sleep. Shower was the most ridiculous design - adjust the tap to the right temperature and the force of the water nearly blows your head off. Reduce the pressure and the water is too cold. Why is there only one control for both these things? Crazy!!
Also yapping dogs next door at all hours of the night.
- René (5/5): Praktisch aber nichts zum Wohlfühlen - Praktisch und in Ordnung für eine Nacht, leichter Check in Sehr kühle Atmosphäre, keine schöne Einrichtung, hellhörig, kein sicheres Gefühl, altmodisch
- Helen P-F (1/5): Run Down Motel not like the photos - Nothing, motel nothing like the photos, its run down and the stairs unsafe. Motel was run down and didnt look safe, I ended up finding another hotel.
- Gill (7/5): Reasonable place for a short stay in CI - Good location
Plenty of space
Very helpful manageress
Kettle& microwave provided Pretty shabby overall, really needs updating
WiFi coverage poor very patchy
Harsh inadequate lighting- pools of shadow
- Ryan (7/5): -
- Trish (10/5): -
- turua (9/5): really awesome spot with affordable rooms, great staff and fantastic communication. will stay again. - Central Motel is great, easy, clean, such a good location. I was by myself and need to go to some appointments. Perfect for me. also you can book a late check out which costs a small amount more but was really good for me. Communication is great and they are really helpful. I didn't need an expensive place with a beach view and much preferred paying less and just being comfortable in a clean decent place . Nothing that was terrible. I notice some folks say dogs bark, but that is all over Raro and it didn't happen when i was there.
- Diarmuid (2/5): Not great - Close to a good bar/ restaurant Grubby and the office needs cleaning , a lot of what looks like bird droppings all over. Very basic room with a non working light, broken bulb. The place needs a major makeover
- Henry (6/5): Great location but place needs work - The location and staff were good. We arrived late and everything was in order. The room was clean. Ok for one or two nights.
Bed was great.
Close to Saturday market. Took some time to locate how to enter the property arriving late at night.
The building needs a fair amount of work from the outside.
Dripping tap.
- Ngaire (10/5): -
- Ptehiko (10/5): Good place to stay if you’re on a budget. It’s not flash, but it’s clean and is in a good location. - The room was clean and shower pressure was great. Would be nice to have better access to wifi. Other than that, it’s all good.
- Lodi (8/5): -
- Jamieson (6/5): -
- Keane (7/5): -
- Samalia (10/5): - Thank you.the place was clean and tidy.close to town and very nice Looks old on the outside. Insider is clean.highly recommend it and will plan to stay there again.
- Asikinasa Toganicolo (10/5): - Very convenient location - close to town and restaurants, shops
- scanlan (8/5): -
- Salanieta Taka (7/5): Very good. - I liked the cleanliness, space and comfortable bed. Additionally, it was at a working distance to shops and to the training venue at Are Pua Community centre. I was not sure about security measures and that the stairs were wooden and showing wear and tear
- Francine (8/5): Clean, comfortable & good value - Close to the town centre.
- Sandro (1/5): -
- Gyde (10/5): -
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