A family were left shaking after a man who had allegedly been tied, robbed and beaten called out to them for help.
The Tauranga woman and her family called police after the 34-year-old man emerged from a neighbouring room at the Rayland Epsom Motel on Great South Rd in Auckland.
"We were outside on the balcony and this guy came out from the room near ours and he was bound and gagged and asked us to call the police," she told Fairfax.
"He had a cut above his eye and it looked like he had been beaten."
"We went into shock and started shaking. Not something we wanted to see on our holiday."