English isn’t everyone’s first language, so we’ve put together this helpful welcome guide with everything you need to know for your stay.
Our Reception team are available to help between 9:00am – 7:00pm daily.
If you do need help during the evening, you will find our team in the kitchen between 10-11pm.
Please read on for more information about our little hostel…
Adventure Wanaka comprises of two buildings;
The House – which houses the Kitchen, Luggage Room and communal bathroom and several rooms.
The Motel – which has several guest rooms, and two lounges (one upstairs and one downstairs)
Each guest is issued with a key to their dorm/room, and also a code to access the House for our luggage room and communal bathroom area.
The code for The House can be found at Reception.
Please note that this code does not grant kitchen access after 11:00pm
We have high-speed Wifi available in all rooms and areas of the hostel, suitable for streaming and video calls.
Network: AW Guest
Password: awhostel56
Kitchen and Dining can be found on Level 1, past the Reception area.
Kitchen and Dining area is open from 5:30am to 11:00pm.
When storing food; please label your food bag or box with your name and check-out date. This is very important as we do throw out unlabelled food from our fridges and shelves. Tape and pens can be found on the center island.
Like any communal kitchen, if you use it, please clean up after yourself – Leave it clean and ready for the next person to use.
Drinking water is available from any tap in the building, kitchen or bathroom
Adventure Wanaka has two guest Lounges – A Chill/work zone upstairs, and a Cosy Lounge, downstairs
Both lounges are located in “The Motel” the two-story building.
The lounges feature:
Adventure Hostels are designed to be social, interactive hostels where people from across the world can meet, hang out, swap travel stories and have a casual drink together.
Your hostel team run activities several nights of the week, designed to help our guests and travellers to interact and engage with each other.
Most of our activities start from the kitchen at 9pm, with exception of Movie Nights, which start at 7:30pm.
Chat to our team to find out about tonights activity or how to get involved. You’ll find tonights event postered around the hostel
Please note, we are a social hostel and this does mean that it can be loud at times, especially in communal spaces. This is the nature of social hostels.
Quiet time starts at 10pm, but is not enforced by our team.
Most of our rooms at Adventure Wanaka Hostel are ensuite rooms, with a bathroom attached.
However, if you wish to, you are welcome to use the communal bathrooms located in “The House”
Our communal bathrooms are cleaned twice daily, and our Ensuite bathrooms deep cleaned each day.
Please do inform our team if any of our toilets or showers that are in need of a quick clean.
Towels are included as part of your stay, one will be found on your bed. If required. please ask our reception team for a fresh towel during opening hours.
Hair dryers are available on request at Reception
Our team offer a simple laundry service. We do not have self-service washing machines at the hostel.
as part of this service, we will wash, dry and return your clothes to your room/bunk when ready.
This service is available during our reception opening hours, while we can’t guarantee same-day service we will try our best to get your laundry completed on the same day.
Either drop your laundry off at Reception with your own hamper or bag, or request a laundry hamper from our team.
This service currently costs $12.00, as of 2026
Check out time is 10:00am
If you are departing early, before our reception opens, simply drop your key into the Key Drop box, located by Reception
Please leave your name tag, linen and towel on your bed. We will take care of the rest.
While you must be out of the room by 10am, you are very welcome to make use of the hostel facilities before you depart.
Feel free to hang out in the lounge, make a late breakfast or take a shower before you head off.
Luggage Storage is available free-of-charge for up to 7-nights post-stay. So if you’re going hiking and want to leave a bag with us for a few nights. Speak to our reception team.
Our Luggage Room is just on the right, as you enter ‘The House’, You will need the Hostel PIN access code to enter.
Adventure Wanaka has very limited parking options.
This is the trade-off for having a fantastic, central location.
Adventure Wanaka has space for 2-3 vehicles only, on the property. These spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
There is plenty of street parking options nearby, on Helwick Street and the nearby residental streets.
A full guide for parking can be found here:
If you have any other questions, please do ask and we will do our best to help.
Thanks for choosing to stay with us at Adventure Hostels.
