Waipiata Country Hotel

Great hotel and general atmosphere. Unfortunately spoilt by two unwelcoming locals spoiling for a fight. Spent a lovely afternoon, and conversations until a guy named Pete turned up. He and another guy were confrontational, rude and spoilt and otherwise lovely day and evening. Great staff, good food. However, when I was there they tolerated local bully intimidating visitors.

The Canterbury MG Car Club, dined at Waipiata Hotel over 2 nights over Labour Weekend. Mark is a great host and worked hard to accommodate our numbers, His staff were welcoming and efficient at getting a wide range of meals out. Food great. thanks

3 of us tried their pies, steak and cheese and steak and blue cheese. Now you would imagine that in a steak and cheese pie there would be two specific tastes, steak and cheese. Thats where you are wrong, none of could taste the cheese in either of their pies. We ended up taking the top offr to check and saw a small amount of cheese but not enough to taste as it was overpowered by everything else. The meat, sauce and pastry were good but it ended up being a plain LARGE meat pie. I couldnt rate this pie any better as there was no cheese to taste and thats whats it is sold as. Ne needs to stop being stingy and be more generous with his cheese.