Bon Accord Backpackers
Bon Accord Backpackers is a hostel at 57 Rue Lavaud, Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, inside the Akaroa commercial centre.
Checked 16 Oct 2026
150 year old historic hostel, a small & friendly backpackers, central to all that Akaroa has to offer. Whatever you need, you will find it here
57 Rue Lavaud, Akaroa
Its own website lists
Read from the site itself 29 Sept 2026, Its own website.
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Nearby
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The nearest other hostels
Also in Akaroa
What the record holds
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Address | 57 Rue Lavaud, Akaroa | Find Christchurch, 2024 |
| Kind | Hostels | OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | 03 304 7782 | Find Christchurch, 2024 · its own site lists +6494109870 |
| Website | bon-accord.co.nz | Find Christchurch, 2024 · its own site agrees |
| hello@explorenewzealand.co.nz | Its own website |
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How the council’s directory described it
150 year old historic hostel, a small & friendly backpackers, central to all that Akaroa has to offer. Whatever you need, you will find it here.
— Find Christchurch, 2024. The business’s own words from about 2024, repeated as a lead, not checked.
The ground it stands on
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| District Plan zone | Commercial Banks Peninsula | District Plan |
| Commercial centre | Akaroa, small neighbourhood centre | District Plan |
Akaroa 100 Years of Bowling 1906 - 2006
Cenotaph War Memorial plaque
To the Children of This Village May the Joy That You ShareThe reports nearby
307 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Roads & footpaths and Trees & parks, 249 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Water General
Facility - General Request
Pavement - General
Abandoned Vehicle
Abandoned Vehicle
Water Leak
Facility - General Request
General Request
Water General
Pavement - Damaged
Pavement - Damaged
Water LeakQuestions, answered briefly
A hostel in Akaroa, Christchurch.
57 Rue Lavaud, Akaroa, on Rue Lavaud. On the map →
On OpenStreetMap and in the council’s 2024 directory.
phone 03 304 7782 (Find Christchurch, 2024), its website (Find Christchurch, 2024), email hello@explorenewzealand.co.nz (its own website).
Chez la mer (71 m), Onuku Farm Hostel (4.6 km), Half Moon Cottage (6.7 km), every one in the city.
the address’s own record holds 1 report; 6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Peninsula Painting And Plastering (12 m); nearest park: Rue Balguerie Reserve (169 m).
The record behind this
This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:
- OpenStreetMap, named premises drawn and kept current by its contributors (ODbL)
- Find Christchurch, the council’s business directory, a snapshot last touched about March 2024 (CC BY 4.0)
- Christchurch District Plan layers, zones, commercial centres and scheduled heritage items, from the council’s open data (CC BY 4.0)
- The business’s own website, read politely by chch.live for contact details the open record is missing, re-checked monthly
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); council and ECan data under CC BY 4.0; Wikidata CC0. Something wrong? Fix it on OpenStreetMap or tell us. The whole directory lives at /businesses. This page as markdown: /business/bon-accord-backpackers-akaroa.md.