Southern Lakes Hotels

New Zealand Southern Lakes Hotels - Accommodation. If you are looking for comprehensive travel information for Southern Lakes Hotels including Boutique Hotel, Hotel, Lodge, Luxury Hotel and Resort, you will find it here on AA Travel.

Hotel accommodation is great if you're looking for luxury accommodation or a discount hotel that's a cheap place to get a good night's sleep. Luxury hotels found throughout the country are great for indulging yourself. Here you can pamper yourself with room service, spa treatments and delicious food at the hotel restaurant. These hotels usually have all the amenities that you need, including fully equipped kitchens, and most have a bar and restaurant. Tea and coffee-making facilities are usually available, along with a phone, TV and bathroom facilities. Rooms in upmarket hotels range from a studio suite to a three-bedroom luxurious penthouse suite. If you're travelling on a budget, country hotels and pubs offer clean, pleasant rooms, sometimes in modernised historic buildings. Facilities here are usually shared.

Southern Lakes: Queenstown and Wanaka have an ability to captivate travellers on two levels. Firstly, with their extraordinarily scenic location in the Southern Alps; secondly, with the incredible array of adventure activities on offer. In many places around the region you will see evidence of the gold rush and the gold miners' years of toil in an unforgiving environment. Most people who venture into this corner of the world go the extra distance to visit Fiordland National Park. Over millions of years glaciers carved the most southern portion of the West Coast into 14 fiords. Most are accessible by water, but you can drive to Milford Sound along a stunningly scenic road. Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri were also created by glacial action during the last ice ages; the towns on their shores are popular bases for travellers. Central Otago is home to stone fruit such as apricots and peaches. This part of New Zealand has some of the finest water and winter sport facilities in the country.