Shakespeare House

Perfect stay Lovely BnB very close to town center. Breakfast included. Large rooms, comfy beds and great hosts!

Fantastic hosts! Great rooms though on the tiny side with a tiny teeny bathroom.

Great stay. Very comfortable. Owners were wonderful and helpful.

When staying at the Shakespeare house, you feel like you’re staying with family. We loved how friendly and helpful everyone was. Perfect location and comfortable for our short but sweet stop in Te Anau :)

Shakespeare House B&B is a fabulous place to stay in Te Anau. The accommodation was comfortable, breakfast was great, and Nathan and Liz were friendly and helpful hosts. I have coeliac disease and they catered for me with a choice of gluten free cereals & bread for toast kept separately with a dedicated gluten free toaster that is not available for general use. Highly recommended.

Here are the few reasons why I strongly suggested you find another option. It feels like it was a old motel being renovated. The indoor living room was very cold in april and furniture quit outdated. The bathroom is extremely small, can barley move and extremely cold, no heating. The windows? I had a small one with natural light and a bigger one facing the indoor living room so no natural light at all. The walls are paper thin, i heard everything that was going on in the bedroom next time. As for their “rules kitchen “ be aware to read them if u go there. My bad: i did not. The kitchen can only be used by guests from 11am til 8pm. That’s it. I wasn’t aware tho that when it’s breakfast time which is 7am til 8h30am, even if the kitchen is open, you are NOT allowed to make yourself something you would like to eat either eggs or anything. You eat whatever is there which isn’t much: canned fruits, i didn’t see anything fresh, bread, a muffin cake style and cereal and yogurt. I learned it the hard way by misunderstanding this aspect of breakfast and not computerizing in my brain that breakfast ends at 8h30 and i showed up at 8h10-15 and asking to the old lady doing the dishes if i could get 2 slices of bread as it was 8h35 so i was apparently 5 minutes late. I will pass on how rude this old lady was towards me, enough that i asked for a refund for the 2 nights i had left there and i left. There is a way to interact with guests that travel across the world to come visit NZ like i did. Of course as a solo female traveller i stood up for myself and defended myself. I no longer felt safe and at peace so i left. I had never seen anywhere in the world breakfast time for 1h30 with no flexibility when you are dealing with travellers. So definitely i recommend my felllow travellers to look for a better option…