Location. The Holiday Inn on Avon Christchurch is located in Christchurch, New Zealand, three kilometers from the Botanic Gardens and one kilometer from the city center.
Hotel Features. The hotel, adjacent to the Avon River, offers a warm contemporary style. The lobby color scheme is white and brown with furnishings in subdued hues and splashes of brighter color from trees and flowers in containers. The hotel grounds include a courtyard garden. Amenities include a business center, and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is available in public areas for a fee.

Holiday Inn on Avon Christchurch also offers Willows on Avon, the hotel restaurant, which overlooks the river. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, and provides room service. Children eat for free from the kids menu when dining with an adult guest at this restaurant. Chatz Bar at the courtyard garden offers a selection of beers, wines and spirits.

The hotel includes five meeting rooms with seating capacities of from 15 to 200.

Recreational amenities include a fitness center, an indoor pool and a sauna. Rensley and Hagley golf courses are two kilometers from the hotel.

Guestrooms. The two-story hotel houses 135 guestrooms which include chargeable Internet access, cable and satellite television and desks. Rooms also include minibars, full-size refrigerators, plates, glasses and silver.

Expert Tip. Christchurch Botanic Gardens is a 52-acre park bordered by the Avon River. The gardens include one of the most extensive collections of exotic and indigenous plants in New Zealand. An herb garden, a rose garden, a rock garden and a water garden are interspersed among expanses of lawn and tall trees.


Official New Zealand Rating provided by Qualmark®
Qualmark® assigns an official star rating for accommodations in New Zealand. This Hotel property is rated 3-star plus and is displayed on this page as 3-½ stars. Kids Eat Free:
Children 12 years and under eat free from the kids menu when dining with an adult guest in the hotel restaurant.

Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property’s location to the point of interest or attraction, and may not reflect actual travel distance.

Distances are displayed to the nearest 0. 1 mile and kilometre.

Christchurch Convention Centre 0.9 km / 0.6 mi
Christchurch Town Hall of the Performing Arts 0.9 km / 0.6 mi
Victoria Square 1 km / 0.6 mi
Christchurch Cathedral 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Cathedral Square 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Christchurch Casino 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Christchurch I SITE 1.2 km / 0.7 mi
Southern Encounter Aquarium 1.2 km / 0.7 mi
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament 1.5 km / 1 mi
Christchurch Arts Centre 1.7 km / 1 mi
Canterbury Museum 1.7 km / 1.1 mi
Mona Vale 3.1 km / 1.9 mi
Riccarton House 4 km / 2.5 mi
New Brighton Beach 7.1 km / 4.4 mi
Lyttelton Harbour 10.8 km / 6.7 mi

The preferred airport for Holiday Inn on Avon is Christchurch (CHC Christchurch Intl.) 9.6 km / 6 mi.