You will find our 260 rooms and suites relaxing yet practical and our restaurant and bar lively and vibrant.

We offer total conference, meeting, and banquet services and make life away from the office easy for our business travellers with the availability or secretarial and serviced office facilities. We know you'll enjoy our Grand Chancellor service and style!

The well appointed rooms are both practical and stylish, most providing queen size beds and writing desks or bureaus. All feature colour television including Sky channels and on demand pay videos, minibar, hair dryer, iron and board and of course tea and coffee making facilities. Rooms on non-smoking floors are available.

The disabled too are well catered for with specially appointed rooms to ensure maximum comfort. If you seek the ultimate in hotel accommodation, look no further than the very impressive Endeavour Suite with its stunning outlook over the capital city.

The Piano Bar at James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor has become a popular inner-city, after work, meeting place. A bar where visitors and locals mix and mingle and exchange tales. Like all cities around the world, the heart and sole of Wellington is its people, they are passionate about their city and visitors to the Piano Bar enjoy the "Absolutely Positively Wellington" attitude that they exude.

Select from an extensive a la carte dinner menu or a delicious smorgasbord morning, noon or night at Whitby's Restaurant. For a business lunch, pre-theatre dinner, weekend brunch or a Sunday Roast, you will find Whitby's is just perfect!

Conventions, conferences, seminars, product launches, James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor caters for them all!

Renowned throughout Wellington as a leading meeting place for events large and small, James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor offer 5 meeting rooms with capacities ranging from 60 to 300 guests plus all of the support services and faculties that you would expect including a fully equipped business centre.

James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor have embraced the SPHC Group 'Conference Confidence' programme which identifies service standard levels which are essential for a successful event.