Hall hire, Kaikoura

A hall for whatever you're planning

We've been booking out the Memorial Hall for weddings, birthdays, meetings and tangi for as long as most people in town can remember. It's run by a small committee of locals, so if you've got questions just ring and someone will pick up.

Rooms

Hire rates per hour

Main Hall

$30Community
$45Everyone else

The full hall with stage, for anything from a wedding to a wrestling match

Supper Room

$18Community
$28Everyone else

Adjoins the main hall, good for catering or a quieter side event

Meeting Room

$12Community
$20Everyone else

Small room off the foyer, seats twelve around the table

Capacity

Capacity by layout

120 Main Hall - seated dinner
200 Main Hall - standing
160 Main Hall - theatre
40 Supper Room - seated dinner

Included

What's included

Tables and chairs Trestle tables and stacking chairs for the full capacity, stored in the side room
Zip Wall-mounted zip in the kitchen for tea and coffee
Dishwasher Commercial dishwasher, does a rack in about three minutes
Oven Domestic four-burner oven, fine for warming food, not for a full cook-up
PA Small PA system with two handheld mics and an aux cable for music

The rules

Bond and curfew

  • Bond $200, refunded within a week if the hall's left clean and nothing's broken
  • Curfew Music off by 11pm, hall cleared and locked by midnight

The hall

Who runs it

The hall's owned by the community and looked after by a committee of volunteers who meet once a month. Booking fees go straight back into upkeep, which is why the roof doesn't leak anymore and the kitchen got a new dishwasher last year.

Availability

When it is free

Regular bookings hold these slots. Anything not listed is worth asking about.

MondayBy arrangement
TuesdayBy arrangement
WednesdayBy arrangement
ThursdayBy arrangement
FridayBy arrangement
SaturdayBy arrangement
SundayBy arrangement

“Had our daughter's twenty-first there and the committee lady talked us through the whole thing, right down to where the extension cords live. Hall was spotless and so were we by the time we left it.”

Local family, Kaikoura

Book it

Check availability

Tell us the date, roughly how many, and what you are doing. We will come back with whether it is free and what it will cost.

14 Churchill Street, Kaikoura