Luxury Accommodation • Lakeside Views • Award Winning Food and Wine

The Rees offers a variety of spacious, air-conditioned, and luxurious accommodation options including 60 Hotel rooms, 90 Apartments and five private, 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom Lakeside Residences, all with terraces, showcasing spectacular views across Lake Whakatipu to the alpine panorama of the Remarkable Mountain range.

The many exceptional features at The Rees Hotel include a library of rare books and art, courtesy shuttle to/from Queenstown town centre, complimentary high-speed Wi-Fi, movies and local telephone calls, conference rooms, a fully-equipped gymnasium, secure undercover parking, electric car-charging station and its own private beach and wharf accessing jet-boat and water taxi services. Guests can swim from our wharf or beach – but it’s not for the faint-hearted!

Our team of experienced local and international staff pride themselves on delivering professional friendly service that consistently exceeds our guests’ expectations and is a hallmark of The Rees Hotel’s reputation.

Quiet, private and sophisticated, The Rees Hotel Queenstown epitomises southern hospitality at its finest and an authentic New Zealand experience.

IN PATAGONIA #1 SUPER SIDE ME..

IN BOUNDS IS NONE TOO SHABBY AT ARGENTINA’S #1 SKI RESORT, CERRO CATEDRAL. BUT THE SIDE COUNTRY IS NEXT LEVEL.

SO NEAR, AND YET, SO FAR. ONLY 70 MINUTES OR SO FOR OUR EDITOR OWAIN PRICE TO GET OUT HERE (AND HE’S FAR FROM THE FASTEST, FITTEST OR YOUNGEST IN THE TOURING DEPT), FOR A VIEW ALL THE WAY UP 125KM LONG LAKE NAHUEL HUAPI. BY COMPARISON, NZ’S LONGEST LAKE, WAKATIPU AT QUEENSTOWN, IS 80KM LONG. YOU GET MORE VERT HERE TOO, DROPS OVER 1100M POSSIBLE WHEN IT’S ON..

You don’t have to be some sort of freeski legend (either in reality or just your own mind like most of us) to want to push the boundaries of what most resorts offer, even big ones like Argentina’s Cerro CatedralCathedral Mountain - named for the granite spires that dot the range.

Let’s face it, while Epic and Ikon passes and the like have made skiing actually way cheaper per day if you go more days, the flipside of that issurprise surprise - way more people do go more.

Resorts everywhere are getting busier and busier, so heading out the sides makes more and more sense.

With that in mind, we showed you several of Australia’s best side options last year, from Hotham to Perisher and Thredbo.

Now it’s time to check out some southern winter side country options a little further afield.