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A peaceful, stylish refuge
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A multi-day stop at Queenstown ranks high on most Home At First custom-designed, independent, fly-drive itineraries through New Zealand. And why not? Queenstown is the vibrant center of the South Pacific island nation’s most dynamic outdoor lifestyle region. Queenstown attracts athletic, adrenaline-hooked young adults, and fashionable, active, upscale professionals to experience the many pleasures and challenges of this most visually stimulating and physically testing of New Zealand regions. |
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Visitors risking overstimulation by Queenstown’s attractions need a
tranquil refuge.
Home At
First’s
Queenstown Inn provides comfortable lodgings, a delightful breakfast in
the dining room that features panoramic views of the Queenstown and
turquoise Lake Wakatipu, and a lively evening wine & canapés social hour
in the lounge. All this comes with numerous personal touches of a
dedicated staff: activities booking service, laundry service, and
luggage storage. |
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base where guests recharge their batteries after tackling many of New Zealand’s most active days in some of its most remarkable scenery. |
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THE ACCOMMODATIONS—QUALITY STANDARD ROOMS & OPTIONAL LUXURY SUITES: Queenstown Inn is the right place to be for all the right reasons. Its 8 standard rooms (each non-smoking with full bath, TV, and hair dryer) are comfortable and stylish. Its luxury suites (an extra cost upgrade) offer lots of space, kitchens with bar, fireplaces, patio or balcony, and other amenities. Standard rooms are great for individuals and couples. The luxury suites are ideal for families and multiple couples traveling together. All rooms are equipped with wireless internet connections. |
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COMMON SOCIAL ROOMS WITH A VIEW: Regardless of room accommodation, all guests have use of the common facilities: lounge, laundry, and breakfast room. The breakfast menu offers several delightful choices each day — each one made to order and delicious. The 6PM happy hour in the lounge gives you a chance to meet other guests from around the world, and sample some of New Zealand’s finest wines served with bite-sized canapés. The inn provides off-street private parking, and, for those departing the inn for multi-day trips like the great walks or overnight cruises on the fiords, the |
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Queenstown Inn provides free luggage storage. |
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OUTSTANDING
HOSTING: Louise Kiely and her staff may the best reason of all to
stay at Queenstown Inn. A former tennis champion and runway model, Louise Kiely has become
a world-class hostess. She learned the business at skier Jean Claude Killy’s guest
house in the French Alps, then in London, in Scotland, in Sydney, and in Auckland before
settling down in New Zealand’s outdoor action center, Queenstown. She carefully
selects staff who take sincere interest in making guests comfortable and seeing to the
success of their visit. |
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• View from Queenstown Inn overlooking Queenstown with Lake Wakatipu, Cecil & Walker Peaks. Photo © H@F • View from Lake Wakatipu shore at Queenstown harbor with Cecil & Walker Peaks. Photo © Home At First
• Twilight over Queenstown, with Lake Wakatipu and the Remarkables
mountains. Photo NZ
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THE SETTING: Several guest rooms as well as the breakfast room and the guest lounge at Queenstown Inn provide a view overlooking Queenstown and across an arm of turquoise Lake Wakatipu to the neighboring mountains that surround both. The inn’s quiet residential surroundings ensure a peaceful night, and the mountain/lake air promises sound sleeping. The 5-minute walk down into central Queenstown leads to the heart of the South Island’s most vibrant and trendy restaurant/shopping/disco quarter. |
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THE LOCATION:
Queenstown is in the heart of the mountain and lake
playground of New Zealand’s South Island.
For decades it has been a magnet for adventure tourism. Queenstown has long been the
epicenter of extreme sports. Commercial bungy jumping was invented at the nearby Kawarau
Bridge in 1988 by the extreme sports legend A. J. Hackett. Jet boating — that other New
Zealand extreme export — became an extreme sport with mass appeal on Queenstown’s
Shotover River in 1970. |
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ACTIVITIES: Louise Kiely and her staff
personally see to it that all of her guests enjoy their stay at the inn and in Queenstown.
Want a cruise on the lake? Fancy a spa at a fancy resort? Can’t live without bungy
jumping? Looking for a round of golf on New Zealand’s most scenic course? Ask Louise. |
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MORE ACTIVITIES:
Dinner recommendations? Easy. Shopping? Wine Tasting?
Hiking? Jet boating? Skiing? Climbing?
Cycling? Scenic
flights to Milford Sound? Ask Louise. No one knows more about Queenstown or is better
known in Queenstown. We submit she is the queen of the place, a one-woman Chamber of
Commerce and Tourism Bureau — better, there’s no bureaucracy at Queenstown Inn.
Don’t fail to meet her over drinks and nibbles at happy hour. She’s buying! |
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A popular candidate for
most scenic hole in • Pinot grapes ripening at Queenstown's Gibbston Valley Winery, which invites visitors for wine tastings and light meals at the world's southernmost vineyard.
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