Mural beautifying Pacific Coast Lodge

Hana Kourimova admires the artwork in progress on the wall of Pacific Coast Lodge & Backpackers. Photo: Chris Callinan.

The once-drab wall of Pacific Coast Lodge & Backpackers is being transformed by a colourful mural tribute to the Mount.

New Zealand artist Erika Pearce is working on the mural over the next few days, and hopes to be finished by Sunday.

Pacific Coast Lodge & Backpackers co-owner Sarah Meadows says she hopes it will become something ‘iconic' for the area.

'We won the Tourism & Hospitality Award at last year's Westpac Tauranga Business Awards, and some of the feedback from the judges was the inside of the building looked amazing, but the outside was pretty non-descript. So we decided to make use of our wall and found a really cool artist.

'We're all about putting Mount Maunganui on the map, so we thought let's do something everyone will want to take photos with.”

Current guest Hana Kourimova, from the Czech Republic, only arrived in Tauranga two days ago, but thinks the mural makes the place look 'really beautiful”.

Pacific Coast Lodge & Backpackers also won Best Accommodation - New Zealand section at the prestigious TNT Golden Backpack Awards for Australasian tourism operators at last year's ceremony on the Gold Coast.

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Posted on 11-02-2017 07:50 | By Capt_Kaveman

Cool


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