Guest & Hosted

It's a customary challenge to New Zealanders to offer visitors the very best experience and welcome through the concept of manaakitanga.

Grasmere Lodge, luxury and natural splendour in the heart of the Southern Alps.

You can expect a comfortable, attractive bedroom and your bathroom may be ensuite, private or shared. Lounge and dining areas are usually shared with other guests. In most cases breakfast is included with lunches and dinners optional extras.This is un-packaged, sociable-style accommodation that brings you into the fold of New Zealand's people and culture.

Bed & Breakfast
Bed & Breakfast accommodation is a wonderfully eclectic mix of all types of hosts and houses, and this is part of its attraction. By opening their homes and their hearts to travellers who need a comfortable bed a night or two, B&B hosts are like instant friends you meet along the way. You have your own room in the host's house and you're served breakfast in the morning.

Boutique Accommodation
A treat for the night or for your entire holiday, boutique accommodation represents a high standard of amenities and comfort combined with individuality and flair.

'Boutique' establishments are almost always historic or heritage buildings or landmarks with great character and probably also a story behind them. The food is wonderful and breakfast is often included in the tariff.

The locations are as diverse as the style of boutique property and yet always small, intimate and quintessentially New Zealand.

Farmstays
Wake to the smell of a hearty farmstead breakfast. Maybe help on the farm if you feel like it; feeding the calves, mending a fence, rounding up the sheep. This kind of accommodation lets you feel like part of the farming family.

Homestays
Become one of the family in a New Zealand home. Homestay accommodation is always comfortable and your hosts friendly and happy to introduce you to friends and other locals.

You share all domestic facilities with the family, including the bathroom/s, and you eat meals together too, often including dinner. Homestay hosts are naturally genial characters and your stay with them will be enjoyably social.

Lodges
Always set in beautiful surroundings, lodges are small, intimate, welcoming establishments with between 4 and 20 rooms offering bed, breakfast and dinner.