In the Aoraki Mackenzie Region

Mt Cook Lakeside Retreat is a family-run luxury resort, catering to a maximum of 22 guests. It features its own, purpose-built wine cellar and observatory. As Jacqui Gibson from the New Zealand Herald discovered:

As we step from the wine cellar into the observatory, the roof rolls away providing an enormous open-air window to the night sky. It’s barely a few degrees outside, but that’s not the only reason the clear, dark sky is breathtaking. There are stars everywhere.

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