Name: Alpine Lodge
Address: 75 Main Road, St. Arnaud, St. Arnaud, St. Arnaud, 7072, New Zealand
Rating: 9

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Had dinner at the restaurant during our stay. Can highly recommend the lamb dish, tasty with well coordinated flavours. Service was great, attentive wait staff for dinner and breakfast. A nice place to visit if you are in the Nelson Lakes area.

Great dinner dish - Lamb.

Beautifully situated and only a 5 minute walk from Lake Rotoiti, the Alpine Lodge is a great place to stay. The staff were friendly and helpful, the food was good. The only negative things were that our downstairs room was a bit cold (even in summer) and that the lodge itself is quite old, e.g. not so modern bathrooms.

Beautiful scenery and nice place

Have stayed here on business,  as a couple and now with the family.  Service is always exceptional, food great and the accommodation is good value for money .  A real ‘United Nations‘ of staff and guests,  which adds some real international flavour .  Looking forward to staying again.

Great place for everyone

As a repeat customer this restaurant  never fails to deliver exquisite food, a great place to break our trip to West Coast. Moroccan  Lamb, Large platter with a side of wedges with great drink selection list. Followed up with delicious desserts.

Exquisite  Food

Great place to stay excellent staff and great location - also the resturant was top class and affordable - awesome food and served by the lovely waitress called Tilda - the resort is close to the lake and there is a walk from the resort that takes five mins following a little stream

Perfectly positioned

We were here for lunch. not as hotel guests. The dining room had a pleasant ambience. We shared a salmon pizza and a salad. Everything was fine-the pizza had a thin crisp base and was not overloaded with toppings, which is just how we like it. Staff were friendly and efficient. We left fully satisfied and would be happy to return.

Lunch in St Arnaud

There were a few standouts at our dinner at the Aloine Lodge. Fish of the day was Ora Salmon. It was gorgeous. Beautifully balanced and cooked to perfection (fortunately my wife shared a small amount with me). My mussel curry was ok though In retrospect I would have had this as an entree. However the classic margarita I ordered was superb - well done Mr barman. Service was professional but we felt really welcome and comfortable. 

We would totally recommend eating or having a drink here

Dinner for two

Was a dreary day so we ended up in the dining room/bar late afternoon playing card games and the staff were super accommodating as the restaurant was very busy with bookings in the evening!
When the food arrived I was BLOWN AWAY!!  So good!! 
Don’t let the dated decor fool you! The menu is fantastic, the service is top notch and the food is delicious!!

Night away with the family!

We are a group of Gastronauts who regular tour New Zealand in search of great driving roads, quality accommodation and food . We have toured the length and breadth of the South Island which has to be the most beautiful place on the planet. 

For this trip we planned a route from Christchurch via Kaikoura, St Arnaud and Hokitika. We decided to treat ourselves to something special and chose the Alpine Lodge because the website showed the facility as being  five star luxury with a top notch restaurant. With the price of a double bed unit being $250.00 per night  we were looking forward to something spectacular. 

This was not the case and we were horrified.   The rooms are old and spartan with few in-room facilities. Car parking was nowhere near the unit which was frustrating. The lack of a toaster or microwave suggested that even a home made continental breakfast  is not allowed  which forces you to go hungry until you get to the next town or use their on site  restaurant. 

As we had packed nice clothes for the evening we dressed for dinner. This proved to be a waste of time as some of the day trippers/campers rocked up in bare feet and swanndri's. They feasted on pizza and chips.  

The topic of discussion for the rest of the evening was how were we convinced this was a top quality establishment. The answer is the web site.  The  photos are deceiving and show a two bedroom unit which is nothing like the spartan one bedroom unit provided. Also, there is nothing on the web site menu to suggest a lower quality of bar catering is available.  Clearly the owners have been quite misleading with their website  as the lodge is nothing more than an overpriced backpackers. 

I should point out the staff were very polite but then they need to be in order to extract $250 a night for a less than basic room.  Both the other places we stayed at on our trip had superior sea views and facilities, only charging around $160 per night in comparison.  A couple in our group have previously owned a motel on the lake in Te Anau and reckoned the Alpine Lodge was only worth $150 per night but also said motel owners tend to charge whatever they think they can get away with. 

We only spent one night at the Alpine Lodge but if we had booked a week in this place  the NZ Office of Fair Trading would be receiving a written complaint.

None of our group will ever stay there again or recommend this facility to anyone.  This is also the most damning report I have written for Trip Advisor.

The most expensive Backpackers in New Zealand

Can’t believe how quick and attentive Leighton and staff were for my family, especially my aging mother.

Food was fantastic, and despite a busy restaurant, these guys crushed it!!’

Any stop at Rotoiti/St Arnaud had to include a stop here!!!

Thank you so much

Alpine Lodge

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