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Christchurch & Canterbury, New Zealand

Rebuilt with striking contemporary architecture around its Victorian bones, Christchurch is the elegant gateway to the South Island, with the Botanic Gardens, punting on the Avon and a serious food and art scene. Beyond the city, Canterbury unfolds into braided rivers, high-country sheep stations and limestone landscapes rising toward the Southern Alps.

Otahuna Lodge

A Relais & Châteaux lodge of seven suites inside New Zealand's grandest surviving Victorian mansion, on a 30-acre estate south of Christchurch.

Flockhill Lodge

An architect-designed alpine lodge on a 36,000-acre high-country sheep station between Christchurch and Arthur's Pass.

The George Christchurch

A 53-room five-star boutique hotel on Park Terrace, facing Hagley Park and the Avon River in the heart of Christchurch.

Hotel Montreal

A 26-suite boutique hotel a block from Hagley Park, where every room opens onto its own private balcony.

The Hermitage Hotel Mt Cook

New Zealand's landmark alpine hotel, the only large building in Mount Cook Village, with the country's highest peak framed in its windows.

The Observatory Hotel Christchurch

Thirty-three pigment-named rooms and suites inside the restored stone towers of The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, a few minutes from Canterbury Museum and Hagley Park.

Fable Christchurch

A theatrically decorated city-centre hotel on Gloucester Street, steps from Victoria Square and the Avon, with a restaurant and bar that draw a local crowd.

Peppers Clearwater Resort

A lakeside resort of rooms, suites and villas set around an 18-hole championship golf course at Northwood, eight minutes from Christchurch Airport.

Hapuku Lodge & Tree Houses

A family-run lodge on a deer farm and olive grove north of Kaikōura, where tree houses stand among the kānuka between the Seaward Kaikōura ranges and the Pacific.