The hotel is surrounded by rugged peaks and the beautiful lakes of the Waitaki Valley, and is the social centre of popular holiday village Otematata. The town swells to over 5000 people in the Christmas and New Year holidays as holiday makers from the bigger towns come to enjoy the lakes.
Local Weather
Otematata, New Zealand
January 23, 2016, 5:01 am
Mostly cloudy
18°C
18°C
2 m/s
real feel: 17°C
current pressure: 1010 mb
humidity: 53%
wind speed: 2 m/s NW
wind gusts: 3 m/s
UV-Index: 0
sunrise: 6:24 am
sunset: 9:18 pm
Forecast January 23, 2023
day
Mostly cloudy
25°C
wind speed: 3 m/s NW
wind gusts: 4 m/s
max. UV-Index: 6
night
Showers
14°C
wind speed: 1 m/s NNW
wind gusts: 3 m/s
max. UV-Index: 6
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