Opunake Cottage Rest Home
ŌpunakeTaranaki
In short
- Offers rest home care.
- A standard room costs at most $1,568.35 a week here, the Ministry of Health's price cap (maximum contribution).
- Rooms free now, as the home reported on 15 October 2026, 7:58am.
- Care offered
- Rest home
- Rooms free
- Free nowupdated 15 October 2026, 7:58am
- Certificate
- 36 monthsends 24 May 2027
- Certified beds
- 21
- Standard room cap
- $1,568.35a week, from 1 July 2026
- Premium rooms
- Not checkedmost homes do not publish it
Care offered
- Rest home
Vacancies
- Standard rooms
- Free now
- Care suites (under an occupation right agreement)
- None listed
Updated 15 October 2026, 7:58am by the home on Eldernet. Call to confirm before you visit.
What it costs
Standard room: capped at $1,568.35 a week in the Opunake area from 1 July 2026 (the Ministry of Health's maximum contribution), source.
The Opunake area is a rural area the Ministry caps separately from South Taranaki District ($1,524.46 a week). We placed this home in it by its town.
We matched this home to South Taranaki District by its town, Ōpunake. Health New Zealand tells each home the rate that applies to it, so ask the home to confirm.
The cap is what a standard room costs, whether you pay yourself or the Residential Care Subsidy pays, and it is the same for rest home, hospital and dementia care. Premium rooms and care suites cost more, and most homes do not publish those extra charges, so ask for them in writing. How care home prices work.
Some people qualify for the Residential Care Subsidy (government help with the cost of long-term care), which is means-tested and assessed by Work and Income. Who qualifies.
Certification and audits
- Certification period
- 36 months
- Certificate ends
- 24 May 2027
- Certified beds
- 21
The Ministry grants 24 or 36 months for a typical home.
Services certified
- Rest home care
- Auditor
- The DAA Group Limited
- Certified as
- Opunake Districts Rest Home Trust - Opunake Cottage Rest Home, 1 Layard Street Opunake 4616
Audit summaries
- Latest audit summary, August 2026 PDF, 162 KB
- Audit summary, October 2025 PDF, 169 KB
- Audit summary, February 2024 PDF, 194 KB
- Audit summary, October 2022 PDF, 159 KB
1 older summary is on the Ministry page.
Source: the Ministry of Health page for this home, read 15 and 16 October 2026.
Where this comes from
- Address
- 1 Layard Street, Ōpunake
- Phone
- (06) 761 8009
- Region
- Taranaki
- Source: Eldernet listing (opunake-cottage-rest-home), read 15 and 16 October 2026 (listing, care levels, vacancies)
- Source: Ministry of Health certification page, read 15 and 16 October 2026 (certificate, beds, audits)
- Source: Ministry of Health maximum contribution notice, read 15 and 16 October 2026 (standard room cap)
Confidence: high for care levels and contact details, which the home lists itself, and for certification, which is the Ministry's own record. Vacancies change daily.
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