Queenstown People & Culture

Listen out for the screams at night as people do bungee jumping in the dark, on the hill looking over the town!!

Fantastic spot all year round...Winter for snow skiing/boarding and summer for all the summer water sports. Great night clubs and eateries, always good for people wathching and having a weekend away with friends, Not to mention the fantastic scenery, but remember a jumper it gets cool quickly in the evenings...take your wallet full...its not renound for being on the cheaper budget!

The Flaming Kiwi Backpackers is Queenstown’s new backpackers, which is situated in central Queenstown, just a five minutes walk to the town center where you will find supermarkets, shops and backpacker pubs.

The Flaming Kiwi is a small friendly hostel with 48 beds, which prides itself in providing a clean friendly environment where people from all over can meet and socialize in are spacious social areas.

Must to see! Queenstown is very expensive but it's worth it! You can hike around in Queenstown in the world of Lord of the Rings (go to Paradise, Glenorchy), up the Remarkables which gives you a wonderful view or have some adventures on the rivers and the lake. Queenstown is the basis for all people who want to have some fun and risk: Skydiving, riverrafting, bungyjumping, shotover jets, and much much more. From Queenstown you can also go on to the Fjordland (Milford Sound, Marlborough Sound, lots of nice 3-4days hiking tours) or north to the glaciers. Only disadvantage: very touristic. A cheap joice to sleep are the backpackers, there are heaps of them and the best: The Bumble Bee.

Great party town. meet alot off great people there even Kiwis lol.

Travelling far from home, Queenstown will be a highlight of your vacation. Do you like to find the 'best' location when you travel?
Are you eager to discover more of New Zealand's culture landscape? Yes? Consider then that the distinctive ‘Kiwi’ culture resides in villages, not in cities. Downtown Queenstown is much like any city. Increasing tourism has created another mini-urban jungle.
Solution. If you prefer more peaceful, charming locations, look for accommodations in a convenient location on the edge of town.
Insiders have long recognized that Arrowtown is the cultural heart of the Queenstown district. Without doubt this is the loveliest neighbourhood, a leafy enclave of gold miners cottages surrounded by mountains three golf courses Importantly, when you learn that 21,000 vehicles traverse Queenstown's main street daily, the peaceful attractions of Arrowtown become obvious.
There are excellent lodges and bed breakfasts just 2-minutes walk from Arrowtown's 20 restaurants, arthouse cinema, and entertainment. Explore Saffron restaurant, rated in the ‘Worlds Top 100’ by Conde Nast Traveller. Taste exquisite wine cuisine at Amisfield, NZ ‘Country Restaurant of the Year’.
Yes, you'd be correct in thinking that Arrowtown is a sophisticated neighbourhood
Where to stay? Consider Millbrook or Arrowtown House Boutique Hotel . In the book 'The Snow Guide to New Zealand', by Darby Jim Upe Robert, Arrowtown House is recommended as "the place to stay in Arrowtown".
No driving or parking concerns makes Arrowtown such a relaxing location for your Queenstown vacation See now why the calm oasis of Arrowtown has become the choice of 'those in the know'. Only 15 minutes, but a world removed from downtown Queenstown. Here experience space to breathe and room to move.

If you're European and longing for at night out clubbing: go the the world bar. the place plays mainstream music and have many special offers on different nights. these offers are not the same every week but they had one night an Aussie night and gave away about 100 free Aussie beers at 11 pm. people from literary all the world come to this place and it's a great place to meet people.
some drinks can be pretty expensive but just avoid these and focus on all the good things about this bar.

Fantastic spot all year round...Winter for snow skiing/boarding and summer for all the summer water sports. Great night clubs and eateries, always good for people wathching and having a weekend away with friends, Not to mention the fantastic scenery, but remember a jumper it gets cool quickly in the evenings...take your wallet full...its not renound for being on the cheaper budget!

The double decker bus trip is GREAT !! it visits the bunjy site(fantastic hot chocolate mufins) , a vineyard (great cheeses wine) and Arrowtown a beautiful old gold mining town (great chocolate even chilli chocolate yum) This is a fantstic trip even in the middle of winter but dress warm as those old busses are not heated.

Adventure capital of the world. Name any extreme sport and you can do it in Queenstown!

The kingdom of the adventure sport

go here only if you are a tourist with money, other wise it might be boring. if you do not have lots of cash go to paradise for some awesome hiking. Don't buy cars here as they are terribly over priced, go to dunedin or christchurch instead for some cheap good deals, on the other hand, if you want to sell a car, go to queenstown!!

yea twas aiit

Listen out for the screams at night as people do bungee jumping in the dark, on the hill looking over the town!!

Good nightlife every night of the week since its a tourist populated town. All the bars are in walking distance of each other, its pretty compact but very lively!

Fantastic spot all year round...Winter for snow skiing/boarding and summer for all the summer water sports. Great night clubs and eateries, always good for people wathching and having a weekend away with friends, Not to mention the fantastic scenery, but remember a jumper it gets cool quickly in the evenings...take your wallet full...its not renound for being on the cheaper budget!

just enjoy