Hotel Inspection of Novotel Queenstown

November 3, 2011 by Heather Lucier Stanley 2 Comments

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On our third morning in New Zealand, shortly after breakfast, the group boarded a flight from Auckland to Queenstown. From the airport to downtown Queenstown is only 5 miles and the most scenic drive from any airport into which I have flown. On the way from the airport, the bus driver pointed out the mountains where the Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed.

Queenstown is small and vibrant. People come to Queenstown for sports: hunting, fishing, snow skiing, hang gliding, etc. Queenstown reminded me of many towns in Colorado which have been successful making money attracting sportsmen because of its rugged beauty and its ability to successfully market to them. Queenstown is the outdoors and its proud of it. However, Queenstown did have a Louis Vuitton and apparently another store with $600 sweaters, according to a person in our group who was shopping for his significant other.

While we were waiting for our rooms to be ready, we toured our hotel, the Novotel Queenstown which was in downtown Queenstown near the water. The rooms were neatly appointed and functional. The lobby was clean with a lot of natural light. I felt, after viewing the other hotels which were farther away from downtown and more clunky, that the tour operator picked the best Queenstown hotel for me personally. In the scenic photo in the slideshow above, our hotel is directly behind the collection of bright orange cotton ball shaped trees along the shore and pedestrian boardwalk.

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About Heather Lucier Stanley

Heather Lucier Stanley grew up in Central Massachusetts and lived in New England until she started studying at the University of Michigan where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Literature. In her early 20s, she moved to San Antonio, Texas and started studying business and accounting. In her late 20s, she became a Certified Public Accountant. She has held many varied and interesting business and volunteer positions: public accountant, internal auditor, systems implementer, project manager, business analyst, tax preparer and Austin Skiers board member. While traveling 35% for a position she held, she earned her Master of Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Phoenix. She is enthusiastic about learning and trying new things. A few of her passions are personal development, fitness, snow skiing, and travel. She is outgoing and real. She feels that success is easy to attain if the individual defines what success means to her and then has a plan to achieve her individual success. No two definitions of success are the same because each of us is unique and has something original to share with the world.
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