Queenstown largest hotel
Rydges Queesntown is one of the largest buildings in QT. The hotel has free parking (unlike Rydges Auckland, where we were charged 15$ overnight parking charge). I had heard quite a lot of disastrous reviews about the hotel, when it was undergoing construction for major part of the last year. Hence I was naturally apprehensive.
I was allotted one of the newer rooms on the 2nd floor with a common terrace. The room itself was extremely small, but had soothing interiors. All the rooms in the hotel were lake-facing and offered good views of Laka Wakatipu and the Remarkables. ONe complaint I had was that the room was not completely sound prrof and hence you could hear muffled sounds from the adjoining rooms. Also the bedsheets in my room were not changed for 3 days on a stretch, inspite of us telling the hotel staff repeatedly. It was only on my last day at QT that the housekeeping staff decided to change the sheets.(a farewell present, maybe)
We were on our honeymoon and unlike other hotels I stayed in NZ, Rydges QT offers nothing complimentary on such special occasions. Also like its Auckland cousin (Rydges Auckland), the staff seem to have been instructed not to smile.
The breakfast in the hotel was pretty good. However the same menu is repeated everyday. Can get a bit tiring if u plan to stay in QT for more than 3 days. Also, being vegetarians, there wasn't much of a choice in terms of food. When asked if the hotel could arrange a vegetarian dish for breakfast, the staff served us french fries and chips, without mentioning that we would be charged (unlike other hotels, who were keen to serve us an additional dish free to solve our food problems)
On the whole, The stay was a decent one without being a good one.
Unique Quality: Good interiors, Great views, Small rooms, No soundproofing, Decent food
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