T H E P U B - Waikaka Hotel

23/09/2026

Followed by a few cold ones 🪚🐝🍺

23/09/2026

20/09/2026

Open at 3pm today, Sorry for any inconvenience again 😢

19/09/2026

FOUND DOG :* SOUL* We have had a late night visitor join the party, unreadable phone number on tag unfortunately! She is safe and sound at the pub :)

13/09/2026

❗️3pm Opening today❗️- a few of the locals have taken top spot as the kings of backing up a big night with another… and somehow the publican has been beaten… you know who you are.. 🏆😂👌

09/09/2026

Wind Down Wednesday - ‘Making Sure You Make It Till Friday’. It's 2pm on Wednesday, you’ve lambed 7 ewes — none of the little legends made it. You're already running on cold coffee and broken dreams when you clock the cattle have somehow dragged themselves from ar****le to breakfast across the break paddock. *Classic.* You march over to sort it, grab the gate, and — **CRACK** — straight into the electric fence. Five solid minutes of muttering follows, a greatest hits compilation of every swear word known to farming kind. Meanwhile, Hank the Huntaway — a dog who has never once forgotten the several "accidental" collar tickles you gave him before accepting that was never going to work — bolts like he's been launched from a cannon, finds the bulls you were quietly planning to shift, and proceeds to absolutely *send* them through two wires and halfway to the neighbour's boundary fence where their cows are peacefully minding their own business. You stand there, both hands gripping your hair like you're trying to hold your skull together, whistling until your lips cramp, watching Hank wag his tail at the boundary fence like he's just won the World Cup. You wait ten minutes for him to slink back via the long way round. *"F**k it. I'm having lunch."*

So there you are, last ten minutes of your break, caking mud off your laces, wrestling that puttie dome that's been giving you grief for a week, sneaking a quiet scroll between lace loops — and then you see it. **Happy Hour.** A slow curl creeps up the right side of your mouth. A single nod. *Attendance confirmed.* Because if there was ever a Wednesday that earned a wind down, mate — this is it. 🍺

**Wind Down Wednesday**
@ The Pub, Waikaka Hotel — 8PM to 9PM.
See you there. You've earned it!

07/09/2026

Does anyone in the area have a reasonably big (around 10kg) washing machine they would like to sell? Not worried on age or condition, as long as it still washes good! 🙂

27/08/2026

Due to illness, we are running a limited menu tonight! No dine in meals, bar bites only 🙂 3.30pm open today ❗️
Apologies to everyone for the inconvenience this may cause! We will be back in full action tomorrow 🤞🙌

15/08/2026

Due to an unexpected event this morning… we will be opening late today. Chase was taken to Dunedin hospital by ambulance at 6am this morning following surgery complications and as we are still in hospital for the time being… THE PUB WILL OPEN AT 4.30-5PM TODAY (SATURDAY) . Thank you 🙂

08/08/2026

❗️WE ARE CLOSED TOMORROW, SUNDAY 9th AUGUST❗️
We finally got the call for our son to have surgery after several months waiting. See you all on Wednesday!