The Old Coach House

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Come and stay with us at The Old Coach House, a historical homestead built in 1857 as Turakina’s one and only Coach House. Located 20 minutes from Wanganui on New Zealand’s beautiful Northern West Coast.

The Old Coach House welcomes you to stay at in our Homestay style accommodation. During your stay we would like you to feel “at home” sharing the living facilities with us, but being able to retire to the privacy of your own room. We offer backpacker style accommodation and bed and breakfast type, you choose.

Convenient to Wanganui, Bulls and Palmerston North, Turakina is a quaint historical town with a rich heritage.

Relax in the landscaped English cottage style garden and enjoy fruit and vegetables from our veggie patch, herbs from our herb garden and eggs from our chickens!

Don’t forget to say hello to our long term residents – the animals! Sebastian (our adorable Golden Retriever) will be happy to play with you whilst our cat Teddy enjoys a good rub behind his ears.

Enjoy fresh cut flowers in your room, straight from our cottage style garden
Fluffy towels and crisp white bed linen
Feather and down duvets
We like to use fresh local produce and home made preserves, garden picked vegetables and free range eggs
For your comfort we are non smoking throughout.
Off road gated parking
TV and tea/coffee making facilities

Turakina is one of the oldest established settlements in the Wanganui district the first white settler Adam Glasgow having arrived here in the late 1840s. Scottish Pioneers bought many of their traditions with them including the Caledonian games which were first held in Turakina in 1860 and continue today as an annual event. Turakina was a very busy and prosperous township in the coaching days but with the opening of the railway junction at Marton and a better road system trade dwindled and business moved to more lucrative markets.

There are two cottages beside the old coach house the single story one was built before 1870 the two storey building around 1890 and then of course the coach house built in 1857.

The Old Coach House Turakina

me2 Graham The Owner. “Hi I would like to invite you to stay with us next time you are passing, please book ahead where possible to avoid disappointment”