PHOTO: ANDY JACKSON/STUFF After six years of owning one of the country’s most isolated pubs, Richard and Vicki Pratt have decided to put the Whangamomona Hotel on the market.
After an hour’s drive along a windy road, in a town with more sheep than citizens, you will find a 114-year-old hotel where a president often dines.
Its isolation means food, beer and clean linen comes just once a week and if you need it more often than that, an emergency call to a rural delivery truck driver is the only option.
And those emergencies happen. Whangamomona, deep in the Taranaki back country, is New Zealand’s only Republic (self-proclaimed) and a popular tourist attraction.
More than 25,000 people pass through the one-street town each year and many of those people stop at the pub. If not for a beer then to get their passport stamped.
Despite its location the Whangamomona Hotel is almost always a busy little place. And guess what? It’s for sale.
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