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Great place to stay!
What a great place to stay-friendly and helpful staff, modern, clean, large rooms with a spa bath as a bonus. Very clean, easy parking and a great location.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thanks for staying Julie, great to hear from you. Safe travels.
Amazing place to stay
Amazing place to stay. Very clean and generous space in the apartment. The manager treated us so kindly and welcoming. Thank you..
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Muchas gracias Bernat. Safe travels in New Zealand. Adios
A wonderful place to stay
A wonderful place to stay in the remarkable Franz Josef site. The property responsibly treated us really well.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Hola Juan y gracias por tu review. Thank you for taking the time to write these nice words. Disfruta Nueva Zelanda. Adios.
Clean
Clean and functionally furnished. Not exactly cheap compared to other motels in New Zealand.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thank you, Christina, for your review. Maybe not as cheap as others you have stayed at, but we will be bigger, warmer, cleaner, quieter and overall…. better. Safe travels.
Excellent
Excellent. Squeaky clean and very well appointed. Great location.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thanks, Annie, for your nice review.
Hotel quality motel
Hotel quality motel A ll mod cons ,very clean easy check in/ out. Highly recommended
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thank you, Christine, for this nice review. Safe travels in New Zealand.
Great place to stay!
What a great place to stay-friendly and helpful staff, modern, clean, large rooms with a spa bath as a bonus. Very clean, easy parking and a great location.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thanks, Julie, for your lovely review. Great to have you staying with us. Take care and all the best.
Would definitely recommend
Great piece of luck choosing this place. It’s clean and well equipped. The check-in and out was so easy. I would definitely recommend.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Hi there Nancy, Thank you for the review, safe travels.
Really nice
Nice and new motel. Both the coffee machine really impressed me apart from the new building itself. Has a mini-spa. Really nice. Recommend it 👌. Have to come back. 👍 👍
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thank you, Mohammed, for your nice review. Safe travels.
Yery comfortable, very clean
Great place to stay bed very comfortable very clean and bright room, Peter was really helpful with local activities close to good café and restaurants, will stay again when we come back. Thanks Peter
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thanks John and Andrea for your nice kind words. Safe driving.
Friendly welcome
From a friendly welcoming to amazingly clean facilities Aspen Court Franz Josef has it all. Great location, extremely quiet and very clean and comfortable rooms with fully stocked kitchen facilities and excellent heating. Appreciate the friendly host having our room all warm and ready to go when we arrived.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Superb review, thank you Lisa. Take care on your West Coast travels and we would love to see you back with us one day in the future.
Perfect - highly recommend
We overnighted, breaking our journey through the Haast to Wanaka. A very cosy welcoming stay. An easy walk to restaurants for dinner and a ChargeNet charger across the road, perfect! I highly recommend.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thanks, Thelma, for your review and your lovely comments. Great to have you staying with us.
Warm & spacious
Aspen Court is a very comfortable and luxurious place to stay – whether for one night or more. We stayed previously several years ago for our wedding anniversary during the winter months and found the rooms welcoming – warm and spacious. This time it was for a single night to break the journey home from further south. We were not disappointed on our return in the facilities or high standards in the accomodation.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thank you Sue for your review and for coming to stay with us once more. Great stuff, All the best.
Clean apartment
My wife and I and another couple stayed in an apartment in February 2023. We were impressed on how clean the apartment was coupled with a great shower, spa bath and kitchen. Also, close to several restaurants nearby.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thank you, Tom, for your nice review. We hope you had a wonderful time travelling around New Zealand. All the best.
Everything was good
Everything was good, looked to be organised for winter with central heating.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Hi Yvonne, yes, we are nice and warm in winter with our radiators and boiler system. Thanks for the review
Relaxing stay after a long-distance drive
We stayed 1 night and really enjoyed everything in the motel. High standard facilities give us relaxing stay after a long-distance driving. Peter and Pam very friendly and helpful. Definitely we would like to stay again and recommended to friends and others.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thank you, Anne, for your review. Safe travels on your holiday.
Service was excellent
There were 2 other families who booked with us as we were all doing the Heli Hike tour. The room (bed/bathroom) had a modern look. Beddings were clean and comfy. Service was excellent. I couldn’t fault it. Very good value for the money. Plus it’s across from the Heli hike touring company and short distance to cafes and nice restaurants.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thank you, Marianne, for your nice review. Hopefully the weather was good for you as well. Cheers.
Room was wonderful
We only stayed one night, but the room was wonderful. We loved the “fern garden” outside the bedroom window! Front desk was super helpful and pleasant, and we were a short walk to everything. Would definitely stay again and will recommend to friends.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thanks Pam, next time you will have to stay longer. Cheers.
Thank you very much
We have stayed 2 nights, and really enjoyed the stay. This is the best motel that we have ever stayed with. We have given 10/10 rating in Booking site, and really want to recommend to others. Some of the points that really like are: spacious – large living room, bed room and bathroom; high standard facilities – lovely kitchen with powerful range hood; and classic room service – for example the display of the cutleries in kitchen draws and warm towels on the rack. Thank you very much Aspen court team!
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Hi there Jian, thanks so much for your lovely review. Great to hear you were impressed with our facilities. All the best.
Highly Recommend
We stayed for three nights in mid-Nov 2022. The rooms were clean, comfortable, spacious and everything worked. Looks like the interiors have been recently renovated to a high standard. We highly recommend and would definitely return.
Response from Aspen Court Franz Josef
Thanks, Geoff, for this review. Pleased to have you staying with us.
2024 Tripadvisor
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Based on reviews and ratings collected over the last year Aspen Court Franz Josef has been recognised as a 2024 Best of the Best Travellers’ Choice award winner!
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Kevin07/06/2024Great location but beware that ‘mountain view’ means looking directly across at other units. Great location, friendly staff and very comfortable room. The breakfast was also good with the breakfast venue overlooking the lake and the resorts pond. I booked a mountain view room so didn’t expect to see the lake but the view from the bedroom, lounge and kitchen was directly to the facing units.Catherine G03/06/2024Excellent stay! Excellent stay! Great value! No complaints! The check in was very easy. Parking right outside the accommodation. Close to all the amenities. Warm and comfy. Only thing I could advise, compared to other accommodations is having a smart tv to watch things like netflix. (Seems to be the trend across hotels) Everything else amazing! Thank youKathleen27/05/2024Very nice room in a rather remote location! Very nice room in a rather remote location! Definitely a step nicer than most comparable places throughout the west coast. Nice amenities like an expresso machine and nicer finishes in the bathroom/kitchen. Very walkable to restaurants and visitor center in town.GlobeTrotters400115/05/2024Excellent Excellent Excellent Loved it Loved it Over the years, we've mostly stayed in Fox Glacier, but after a lull of over 10 years, we've returned to the South Island to do some more walks, and selected this motel to explore Franz Josef a bit more again. First impressions on walking into our room were, it was clean, bright and modern, and tastefully decorated, making the place feel so light, airy, and open. Then, the provision of so much lighting was lovely, which in some motels are insufficient for adequate brightness . Fantastically designed and equipped kitchen area. Crockery and cutlery top notch. Fantastic stainless steel cooking equipment and the best ever - a stainless steel kettle. Many establishments I am glad are slowly doing away with the horrid plastic kettles - thank goodness. Simple thing like the raised luggage bench at the door was fantastic. A lovely gesture is the espresso coffee maker with 4 pods. Double glazing on doors and windows and great heating system, ensures a warm stay with minimal heating. We stayed two nights and arrived back from our hike to find our dishes put away, beds made and fresh towels :) I had one concern with the left side of the king bed, but when I raised this with the owner on leaving, she was most grateful as she was unaware that maybe the springs had collapsed. Would definitely recommend this establishment and stay again.David Z11/05/2024Beyond expectation Aspen court is just beyond my expectation. The room is huge, with modern towel heater and floor heater. The owner also prepared us milk and coffee which is really thoughtful. The location is also good, just 1 minute away from heli hike, and there are Asian bar and hot tubs just minutes away from the motel.RandyOToole19/04/2024As You’d Expect Can’t disagree with any of the 5-star reviews on this spotlessly clean and well-appointed motel. Although we only stayed one night, it was a welcome refuge after a long day at the wheel…if in Franz Josef again, I’d stay here without hesitation.Scott S08/04/2024Nice place to stay in Franz Josef We enjoyed our stay at the Aspen Court. It seems like it was recently refurbished. The room was nice and the lighting in the bathroom was the best we had in our entire trip to South Island! The location was good and the staff was friendly. We were very happy with our stay.CarlT02/04/2024Disappointed The accommodation was very clean and tidy. When you pay decent money for a motel (high end), you would expect a little more. The mattress was so soft it gave us both sore backs, and the towels had been washed about 600 times and were as hard as cardboard.Graham S30/03/2024Owners go the extra mile for your comfort This has been the best hotel / motel we have had the pleasure of using in New Zealand. The owners have obviously taken a lot of care to make this a luxury home from home so that there is absolutely everything there you could ever require. This is on our wish list when we returnkwest5622/03/2024Excellent stay Location is one blocks off of the main highway but very quiet with glacier and rainforest views; apartment is spacious and very modern and clean; had full kitchen and supplies, comfortable beds, and spa bathtub. Good, free Wi-Fi and free parking right outside your apartment.Tripadvisor rating score: 5.0 of 5,
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