Lake Lodge
From$620 / night
Glass to the floor, facing the water and the mountain beyond it.
- Size
- 78 m²
- Sleeps
- 2
- Bed
- King
- View
- Lake Pūkaki
- Bed skylight
- Wood burner
- Outdoor cedar tub
- Telescope
Lake Pūkaki, Canterbury · New Zealand
Solandra Aoraki
Glacier water, and the mountain behind it
Eighteen timber and glass lodges on the eastern shore of Lake Pūkaki, facing Aoraki across forty kilometres of turquoise.
Lake Pūkaki is that colour because of rock flour — glacial silt ground so fine it stays suspended and scatters light back as turquoise.
The lodges are built from Southland beech and glass, half-buried in the moraine so they read as low ridges from the water. Each faces the mountain.
This is an International Dark Sky Reserve, one of the largest on earth. Every lodge has a skylight over the bed and a telescope in the hall.
- Villas
- 18
- Opened
- 2022
- Rates from
- $620 a night
- Getting here
- 2 hours 40 by road from Christchurch, or 35 minutes by helicopter from Queenstown.
Accommodation
3 categories, 18 keys
Moraine Lodge
From$740 / night
Set into the old glacial ridge, warmer and quieter when the nor'wester gets up.
- Size
- 94 m²
- Sleeps
- 3
- Bed
- King + single
- View
- Moraine and lake
- Sheltered courtyard
- Wood burner
- Drying room
- Telescope
Alpine House
From$1320 / night
Two bedrooms, a long table, and a fire that takes the evening seriously.
- Size
- 155 m²
- Sleeps
- 5
- Bed
- King + twin
- View
- Aoraki
- Two bedrooms
- Double-height hearth
- Ski and boot room
- Hot tub
Dining
Where you will eat
South Island
Tussock
Merino hogget, Akaroa salmon, and vegetables from a tunnel house that works very hard for this latitude.
Dinner, 18:00 – 21:30
All day
The Long Room
Facing the lake, with a fire at one end and a coffee machine that never rests.
06:30 – 22:00
Experiences
What there is to do, and what there is not
