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DNA Gay Ski Week
The website is now live, tickets are on sale and events finalised as organisers get set for this year’s DNA Gay Ski Week to be held in Queenstown 25AUG-01SEP. Organiser Sally Whitewoods of Queenstown says there’s a full programme of après ski events. “There’s a Rocky Horror Night, the Broken Shed ‘Casino Royale’ evening, Karaoke at SKYCITY with Family Bar’s Miss Ribena, a ‘Frolics’ evening, the Wine Down Winery Tour and a final fling with the GAYDAR Mystery Dance Party, plus participants will be expected to spend a little time on the snow,” she said.
Read the full postHilton Queenstown appointments
Hilton has announced two new appointments to the management team at its new Kawarau Village development, which includes the five star 178-room Hilton Queenstown and the four star plus 98-room Kawarau Hotel, managed by Hilton.
Read the full postMatakauri Lodge plans expansion
Billionaire Julian Robertson’s Matakauri Lodge in Queenstown has applied to add four suites, sleeping a total of eight guests. This would lift the five-star property’s capacity to a maximum 30 guests. Matakauri Lodge currently comprises 11 guest suites, including eight outlying cottages and three suites in the main lodge. Each suite has a private porch, bedroom with sitting area and open fireplace, walk-in wardrobe and bathroom. Manager Jay Robertson told the Otago Daily Times there was
Read the full postNew Zealand lures world’s mountain bikers
Queenstown is luring increasingly large numbers of mountain bikers from around the world as they chase an endless summer. According to Mountain Scene, dozens of competitive and leisure riders from Europe, the US and Canada are escaping the snow in their home countries to set up temporary home in the resort.
Read the full postJetstar delivers WLG, SYD to Queenstown
Just in time for Christmas, Queenstown welcomed new direct Jetstar flights from Wellington and Sydney, bringing competition to the routes.
Jetstar Australia & NZ CEO, David Hall, said “In addition to our new Sydney and Wellington flights, we’ve introduced an extra weekly Melbourne service and two extra weekly flights to Auckland.
Queenstown Airport cross runway sealed
For Queenstown based light aircraft users the official opening this week of the newly sealed cross runway at Queenstown Airport is very welcome. With seven substantial light aircraft operators making a total of around 32,000 take offs and landings on the runway each year, the main
driver behind sealing the previously green runway was to make it better for these operators, pilots and their passengers.
Qualmarks for Hilton Queenstown hotels
Following a comprehensive on-site assessment, Hilton Queenstown has been awarded a Qualmark 5 star rating and Kawarau Hotel, managed by Hilton, 4 plus stars in the hotel category. Both were scored perfectly in several areas including
cleanliness, reservations and housekeeping.

