MT COOK LAKESIDE RETREAT
Featured in TIME’s list of The World’s Greatest Places of 2024!
This annual list highlights 100 extraordinary destinations to visit and stay. The only accommodation provider to be featured from New Zealand. This luxurious lodge, skirting the edge of Lake Pukaki, now offers dinner and a show like no other.
TIME specially acknowledged the retreat’s Billion Star Dining experience in this year’s list. Combining exceptional cuisine and guided stargazing in the Retreat’s purpose built Pukaki Wine Cellar Observatory
This stunning Retreat is set in the heart of the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve – among the best places on the planet to gaze at the stars. As night descends migrate to the neighbouring wine cellar which adjoins the Pukaki Observatory. It houses a high-power, fully-automated telescope to view Saturn’s rings, star clusters, and impossibly distant nebula in brilliant detail.
Begin with a 6-course tasting menu composed primarily of locally sourced produce and foraged greens. Manuka honey-glazed alpine salmon and pasture-raised beef, finely marbled, seared and plated beside raspberry puree and pink flower petals.
A must do when planning your New Zealand vacation
