Matakauri Lodge
Style Alpine elegance
Setting Shores of Lake Wakatipu
Just seven minutes' drive from New Zealand’s adventure capital, you'll find jaw-dropping, view-flashing Queenstown hotel Matakauri Lodge. With 11 luxurious rooms – all with majestic alpine and lake views – this boutique beauty is blessed with flawless natural assets. Immaculate service, uncontrived dining and light-filled interiors by Virginia Fisher add to the wow factor. Please note: the hotel will be closed from 3 June until 1 July 2013.
Need to know
- Rooms 11, including 10 suites.
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Rates
Double rooms from $962.55 (NZD1,190), excluding tax at 15 per cent.
The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (NZD1,190) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
- More details Rates include breakfast, pre-dinner drinks with hors d'oeuvres, a three-course à la carte dinner, free minibar (excludes spirits and wines) and use of lodge facilities, including guest office, gym, Jacuzzi and sauna (excludes spa treatments).
- Facilities Gym; free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen LCD TV, DVD player, iPod dock, minibar, Evolu toiletries.
- Poolside Matakauri's outdoor infinity pool will draw you in on balmy days. There's also a Jacuzzi and sauna to keep you in swimwear.
- Check-out 11am; check-in, 2pm, but both are flexible subject to availability.
- Children The lodge is quite an adult affair, but kids under five stay for free in existing beds. Extra beds for older children cost NZ$500–NZ$525 (plus tax) a night. Baby cots are free for infants up to two years old and babysitting is also available.
- Also A two-night minimum stay applies between 15 December 2013 and 31 March 2014.
- Hotel closed The hotel will be closed from 3 June until 1 July 2013.
Food and drink at Matakauri Lodge
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Hotel restaurant
Executive chef Dale Gartland, originally from Shrewsbury in England, is a proponent of maintaining balance and stylish simplicity in the Modern European fare he prepares at welcoming restaurant the Dining Room. He views Matakauri as an extension of a guest's home, so you don't have to eat off the menu and can order tailormade dishes if you fancy something different. With a menu that changes daily, there is already ample variety, but Dale will happily source New Zealand’s finest seafood or game on request. He works with a sous chef and pastry chef and the team not only shines at dinner; they will get your day off to an impressive start, too. Mouth-watering dishes include truffle-flavoured risotto, blue cod from the Foveaux Strait and fillet of Hereford beef.
- Dress code Smart, casual chic with a sporty spin is how it rolls here during the day; be as elegant as the cuisine at dinner.
- Top table Take a window table for breakfast and sharpen the senses with those crystal-clear views. Matakauri also excels at private dining: you can eat on your suite patio, in various cosy nooks around the lodge or down on the jetty at sunset.
- Last orders The dining room kitchen closes at 9pm – after a day of adventuring, you probably won’t be up much later.
- Room service Available 7am–9.30pm, with a daily-changing menu mirroring what is served in the dining room. Chefs will try to accommodate your requests if you'd rather go off piste.
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Hotel bar
The bijou bar is located in the light-filled lobby area and seats about four people, but the restaurant is where most quaffing and sipping goes on. Pre-dinner drinks are served from around 6pm in the upper lounge – a chance for guests to gather and swap views on the views. Matakauri stocks most local Central Otago wines (the house wine), a region that is renowned for producing award-winning Pinot Noir and setting new international benchmarks in quality. If in doubt, wine choices will be expertly guided in the dining room and bar, and your palate preferences will be recalled by staff the next time you ask for a drink.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Matakauri Lodge Farrycroft Row, 569 Glenorchy Road, Queenstown, South Island, 9348
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Our favourite rooms
Located at each end of the lodge, outlying Deluxe Suites 7 or 9 will make you feel like you have Matakauri's mesmerising mountain and lake views all to yourself, with beds and baths positioned to make the most of them. To be honest, though, all the rooms here will send your jaw plummeting when you spy the va-va-voom vistas. You'll also be spoilt by the serenely stylish interiors, including fireplace-warmed sitting areas, walk-in wardrobes, oversized bath tubs and private decks.
Packing tips
They don't call Queenstown, in the heart of the South Island, NZ's adventure capital because folk like to crochet. Bring kit for your sport of choice, whether skiing, sailing, cycling, trekking, golf or more high-octane thrills are your poison.
Also
Matakauri's spa serves up a seductive menu of holistic, tailormade and temptingly named therapies, such as the Cocoon Bliss and Glacial Facial. For a uniquely Kiwi experience, the Pounamu (greenstone) Pebble Pedicure is our top tip. Babor and NZ's Evolu Botanical Skincare products are harnessed here, and naturally, both treatment rooms have gorgeous views – a beautifully soothing note with which to begin and end a session.
