Welcome Inn Motel Business For Sale
Levin, New Zealand



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.

• Levin is only 75 minutes from the Interislander Ferry Terminal in Wellington. The motel is located on State Highway One and is ideally placed to attract tourists and New Zealand holidaymakers crossing over from the North and South Islands.
• 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.

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.

Quiet motel offering several accommodation options

Welcome Inn Motel 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.

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.

Well-appointed Units with separate kitchen

Bedrooms have queen or double sized beds with electric blankets and 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). One Unit is fitted-out as an Access Unit.

Furnishings include Queen or double beds

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.

Guest services

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

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. The motel office and reception are part of the owner's house.

The property (3265 square metres) has ample room for easy car parking beside each Unit and there is room for a truck that is less than 13 metres long. The grounds are attractively landscaped with pergola, planter boxes, and decorative gardens around the owner's house and the Units.

Rent reviews are every two years (December).

Owner's residence
The owner's house is wonderful villa dating from the 1920's with 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 whole house has been refurbished and wallpapered throughout.

Lounge in owner's house

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.

Kitchen in owner's house

Chattels being sold

A full list of all chattels, lessee fittings and fixtures is available.

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.

Day to day management

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 Yellow Pages and via its own Web page http://www.welcomeinnmotel.co.nz. 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.

Call Joy or Kevin on +64 6 368 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.

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.lwtc.org.nz/
http://www.levinlinksgolf.co.nz/
http://www.levinnorth.school.nz/
http://www.horowhenua.school.nz/