It's not a Hotel Room, it's a "Residence"!
New Zealand Travelog #6
Hilton Queenstown Resort - Mon, 8 Apr 2024, 9pm
The drive over to our hotel was quick after we landed at- and finished gawking at the scenery from- the Queenstown airport. Tonight and tomorrow night we're staying at the Hilton Queenstown Resort. Here's a photo I snapped from the balcony outside the guest lobby.
Why a resort?, you might ask. Well, why not! Many of the hotels in Queenstown seemed spendy and called themselves resorts. Go big or go home, we figured, so we booked a room at a resort property. We picked one where the pictures matched the adjectives in the ad copy. But by no means did we pull out all the stops. This hotel has generously sized regular rooms as well as multi-room "residences". We booked a standard room. Affordable luxury is the name of our game.
But then a funny thing happened on the way to the registration desk. Remember how I said there are multi-room residences, but we didn't book one? Well, they upgraded us to one. One with views over the lake and the far mountains, too! Hey, that Hilton Diamond status I've had for years has to come through with something good occasionally.
Our residence has a nice living room (above) with a dining table (not pictured) and a small kitchen. There are two bedrooms.
Yes, this photo looks like some kind of mirror trick, but it's actually two nearly identical bedrooms. The reason they're nearly identical is that the one on the right has an en suite bathroom while the one on the left has to share the "public" bathroom with anyone who's in the living room/dining room area. Thus we picked the one on the left.
Here's another view of the living room showing our patio and garden:
Yes, there's another dining table out on the patio.
Here's another photo showing more of the garden and the view:
This all would be amazing if we were staying here for a week. Alas we're only here for a few days. We'll barely have time to try this room- er, residence- on for size. But it's definitely nice having the extra space to spread out.
Hilton Queenstown Resort - Mon, 8 Apr 2024, 9pm
The drive over to our hotel was quick after we landed at- and finished gawking at the scenery from- the Queenstown airport. Tonight and tomorrow night we're staying at the Hilton Queenstown Resort. Here's a photo I snapped from the balcony outside the guest lobby.
Why a resort?, you might ask. Well, why not! Many of the hotels in Queenstown seemed spendy and called themselves resorts. Go big or go home, we figured, so we booked a room at a resort property. We picked one where the pictures matched the adjectives in the ad copy. But by no means did we pull out all the stops. This hotel has generously sized regular rooms as well as multi-room "residences". We booked a standard room. Affordable luxury is the name of our game.
But then a funny thing happened on the way to the registration desk. Remember how I said there are multi-room residences, but we didn't book one? Well, they upgraded us to one. One with views over the lake and the far mountains, too! Hey, that Hilton Diamond status I've had for years has to come through with something good occasionally.
Our residence has a nice living room (above) with a dining table (not pictured) and a small kitchen. There are two bedrooms.
Yes, this photo looks like some kind of mirror trick, but it's actually two nearly identical bedrooms. The reason they're nearly identical is that the one on the right has an en suite bathroom while the one on the left has to share the "public" bathroom with anyone who's in the living room/dining room area. Thus we picked the one on the left.
Here's another view of the living room showing our patio and garden:
Yes, there's another dining table out on the patio.
Here's another photo showing more of the garden and the view:
This all would be amazing if we were staying here for a week. Alas we're only here for a few days. We'll barely have time to try this room- er, residence- on for size. But it's definitely nice having the extra space to spread out.