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Welcome Inn Motel Business for Sale 
Levin, New Zealand

 

Welcome Inn Motel in Levin is for sale

 

Quiet, quality motel in tranquil garden setting

 
Welcome Inn Motel offers a taste of 'real' country hospitality in the heart of peaceful Horowhenua. It is one of the quietest motels in Levin and is renowned for its' warm atmosphere and friendly, courteous, service.
 

Welcome Inn Motel is located on State Highway 1 at the north end of Levin. 

A long driveway leads guests from the Highway to the Motel with its hillside garden setting. Guests are always assured of a good night's sleep because the location is well away from noisy trains, trucks and passing road noise.

Welcome Inn Motel has an extensive customer base of regular visitors including contractors working in the local retail sector, carpenters, glass workers, staff from Carter Holt Harvey, commercial travellers, business people and the elderly. Other guests come because of local weddings, funerals, and sporting events. 

Driveway leads from SH 1 to private garden setting
 
 

Levin is only 75 minutes from the Interislander Ferry Terminal in Wellington. The motel is ideally placed to attract tourists and New Zealand holidaymakers crossing over from the North and South Islands. As an incentive to stay, guests are sometimes offered a free breakfast during the winter months.

Welcome Inn Motel is a well presented accommodation business with great location, outstanding decor and quality fittings and fixtures. The business is the ideal size for a first motel or a business for a husband and wife partnership where one person may wish to maintain a part-time job or take time out for leisure activities.

 
Welcome Inn Motel offers several accommodation options
 

Welcome Inn Motel now has 10 ground floor Units in a private garden setting:

  • 4 x Studio Units sleeping 2 persons
  • 2 x Studio Units sleeping 2-3 persons
  • 3 x One Bedroom Units sleeping 2-4 persons
  • 1 x Two Bedroom Unit sleeping 7-10 persons

Access Facilities – two Units.

Studio and One bedroom Units have tea and coffee making facilities, refrigerator, toaster, cutlery and crockery. One Unit has a ceramic cook top and most Units have a microwave oven and an electric frying pan. Cooking hot plates are available, if required.

Bedrooms have queen or double sized beds with electric blankets.

Bathrooms have a shower and vanity.

All Units have a telephone, Sky TV with 9 channels, clock radio, and electric heating. Units are carpeted (vinyl floor coverings in bathrooms). This is a non-smoking Motel.

 Studio and one bedroom units

Unit 10 opened in January 2006

 
The Two Bedroom Unit opened in January 2006. It has a super king bed in each bedroom plus and additional 3 single beds - one in each bedroom and one in the kitchen-lounge. The Unit has a dishwasher, fridge-freezer, flat screen TV, 3-piece lounge suite, a TV in one bedroom, 2 basins in the bathroom and a hand basin in the toilet. This unit is also fitted-out as an Access Unit.
 
Services available to all guests at Welcome Inn Motel 
 
  • Cooked or continental breakfasts
  • Meals by arrangement, room service
  • Swimming pool, gas barbecue and barbecue room
  • Guest laundry (the Motel will also do laundry for guests)
  • Complimentary morning paper, Monday to Saturday
  • Cot, high chair, hair dryer available on request
  • Children's play area, car wash
 
Buildings and leasehold
 
Studio and Family Units are constructed as log cabins. The 9 Units all look the same from the outside but are different on the inside. Some Units have exposed logs on the inside, some have feature walls of logs and some are fully lined with plasterboard. 
 

Other features include a single garage with a large workshop incorporated, a large wash house, toilet, two storerooms, a wood store area, and plenty of storage room. Other storage is available in the house. The motel office and reception are also part of the owner's house.

The Units are serviced by three gas hot water systems, one for every three Units.

The property land area (3265 square metres) has ample room for easy car parking beside each Unit. Parking is possible for about 15 cars. There is room also for a truck that is less than 13 metres long.

Swiming pool and access from barbecue room
 

The rent is renewable every two years. The next renewal date is in December 2006.

 
Chattels being sold
 
Office:
  • Front office desk, tables, cane two seater couch 
  • Filing cabinet, office equipment
  • Telephones (2), facsimile machine, toll tracker

Store Shed:

  • Cookers, electric frypans
  • Collection of cooking equipment and utensils
  • Spare cutlery, electric jugs, spare bedding

Laundry:

  • Large washing machine (3), big commercial gas dryer
  • Table, iron, ironing board, vacuum cleaner
  • Fold down bed (2) complete with mattress, mattress protector, sheets continental blanket or blankets, pillow protector, pillowcase

Bedding:

  • Pillow and mattress protectors, cot bedding, supplies of linen, tea towels and towels

A full list of all chattels, fittings, fixtures and equipment is available to interested purchasers.

 
Day to day management at Welcome Inn Motel

 

Business Hours:
Monday to Friday - 7.00 am to 10.00 pm.
Weekends - 8.00 am to 10.00 pm.

Staff:
Welcome Inn Motel is operated by the owners with assistance from one casual cleaner who also acts as a Minder for the Motel.

Stock:
Stock at Valuation will comprise mainly cleaning supplies and catering ingredients for breakfasts.

Awards:
Tourism Horowhenua Award for Top Accommodation 1998.
Tourism Horowhenua Certificate of Excellence 2000.

Catalogues:
Business cards, brochures, and price lists are included in the business sale.

Customers:
The Motel maintains a database of regular customers and contractors.

Promotion and Advertising:
Welcome Inn Motel has prominent on-street signage that directs guests to the Motel. Other promotion is done through advertising in Telecom Yellow Pages and via its own Web page. Advertisements are also placed annually in AA Guides, and in Jason's Travel Channel.

Each year, the business participates in Tourism Horowhenua Expos. These are usually 3 day promotional events at places such as Wellington and Napier. Welcome Inn Motel is also featured in Horowhenua's Top 5 destinations on NZ's Nature Coast Tourist Brochure. 

 
Welcome Inn Motel comes with a comfortable owner's residence 
  
The owner's house is wonderful villa dating from the 1920's. The house has wooden walls and an iron roof. It has been refurbished and wallpapered throughout. 
 
Kitchen in owner's house Lounge in owner's house

  

The house has generous-sized rooms and 4 bedrooms (2 bedrooms are very large). One bedroom has an ensuite bathroom with toilet shower and a hand basin. Another bedroom has a basin-sink.

The house has kitchen, dining room, sitting room, bathroom and toilet. A room leading from the lounge has a bar. A barbecue room leads from the room with a bar. There is an entry from the barbecue room out to the swimming pool.

The grounds are attractively landscaped with pergola, planter boxes, and decorative gardens around the house and Units.

 

Call Joy or Kevin now on (06) 368 3834

 
Levin is the commercial centre for the Horowhenua
 
Levin is a bustling provincial town that serves as the central focus for the prosperous Horowhenua Region. Welcome Inn Motel is just 5 minutes from the Town Centre.

Levin offers good shopping, wonderful educational opportunities, and a good micro-climate. Levin is becoming known nationally for its sporting venues - from full sized covered swimming pool and fully lit Sports Domain to the new AstroTurf hockey centre. 

Nearby Palmerston North provides excellent educational and science facilities including Massey University, Polytechnics, allied Teaching Centres, and Crown Research Institutes. 

And Wellington, New Zealand's Capital City, with its vibrant nightlife is just over an hour away.

Levin is the commercial centre of the Horowenua District
 
Business For Sale Details
Trading
Name
Welcome Inn Motel
Business Category Travel & Tourism - Motel
Location 353 A Oxford Street
Levin
New Zealand
Business Established 1988, present owner since 1999
Title Lessees Interest
Chattels & Goodwill
Land Area 0.3265 hectare
Annual Sales On application
Asking Price NZD $335,000
(plus GST, if any)
Currency Conversion
Contact Joy Minchington
Kevin Minchington
Phone +64 6 368 3834
Fax +64 6 368 3834
Email welcome.inn@actrix.co.nz
Web www.welcomeinnmotel.co.nz
To the west of Levin are long sandy surf beaches, to the east are the majestic Tararua Ranges with native bush and fast flowing rivers.

Near the town, Lake Horowhenua is a popular place for water sports. A little further to the south is beautiful, serene Lake Papaitonga with its extensive board walk though the scenic wildlife reserve.

To find out more about Levin and the Horowhenua region, click on these links:

http://www.horowhenua.govt.nz/
http://www.horowhenua.org.nz/
http://communities.co.nz/horowhenua/
http://www.aaguides.co.nz/rangi.html
http://www.lwtc.org.nz/
http://www.levinlinksgolf.co.nz/
http://www.levinnorth.school.nz/
http://www.horowhenua.school.nz/

 
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