The Rimu Room — 20 and over, photo ID at the door

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The hotel

Photographs

The building, the rooms and the public rooms. Nothing here is a photograph of somewhere else, and nothing has been staged with people who were not staying.

The timber wing from the drive
The 1937 block. The gable on the left carried the yard’s name.
The front desk
The desk. Staffed at every hour, including the ones nobody wants.
A Silver Fern Room
Silver Fern Room, 26 m², north facing.
The Heartwood Suite
A Heartwood Suite. Two of them, one at each end of the top floor.
A Timber Suite under the original rafters
Timber Suite. The rafters are the ones the yard put up.
Tables laid in The Milling Room
The Milling Room before service. Eighty-four seats over two rooms.
Breakfast in The Milling Room
Breakfast runs from 6.30, which suits the riders and nobody else.
The terrace at The Bridle Path Bar
The Bridle Path Bar. The terrace holds forty-eight and faces north-west.
The upper pool at The Bowenvale Bath House
The upper pool, held at 38°C, cut into the slope below the terrace.
A treatment room at The Bowenvale Bath House
One of four treatment rooms. Two of them take a couple.
The Kauri Room set for a dinner
The Kauri Room. 120 seated, 160 standing, and a floor out of the mill shed.
The tables in The Rimu Room
The Rimu Room. Six tables, dealt by people, 20 and over.
Gaming machines in The Rimu Room
34 machines along two walls. No cash machine anywhere near them.
A blackjack shoe
Blackjack: six decks, dealer stands on soft 17, three tables.
Pines above Bowenvale Valley
The valley behind the hotel. The track to Victoria Park starts here.
Te Waihora at dusk
Te Waihora / Lake Ellesmere, forty minutes south, at the end of a long day.

Photographs are by a Christchurch photographer who comes twice a year, in June and in January, so the building appears in both the light it has in winter and the light it has in summer. Rooms are photographed as they are made up for a guest, not dressed for a camera.

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