Queenstown · Lake Wakatipu · Otago
Cliffside Collection brings together refined rooms and suites, lakeside dining, a mountain spa and a private gaming lounge for adult guests — a complete resort stay beneath The Remarkables.
Welcome
Set on Lake Esplanade where the town meets the water, Cliffside Collection has welcomed travellers to Queenstown since 2014. The building steps down the escarpment in four terraced levels, so almost every room looks across Lake Wakatipu towards Cecil and Walter Peak, and the top-floor suites take in The Remarkables in full.
Guests come for a resort stay: a room with a view, dinner sourced from Central Otago growers, a morning in the spa, an afternoon on the water, and — for those who want it — an evening in the gaming lounge. Our casino hotel keeps that balance deliberately. The gaming floor is one room of many, open to guests and visitors aged 20 and over, and it closes while the rest of the resort keeps going.
The team is 96 people strong, most of them local. The concierge desk knows which Milford Sound operator runs on time, which Gibbston Valley cellar door is worth the drive, and which morning the gondola is clearest. That is the part of a casino resort that guests remember.
The Resort
Everything below sits inside one building on the lakefront — no transfers, no queues, no need to plan around each other.
Accommodation
114 rooms across six categories, from the Alpine Classic to the two-bedroom Esplanade Penthouse. Lake or mountain aspect on every floor.
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Dining
Central Otago produce, Fiordland seafood and a cellar built around Gibbston Valley pinot noir. Breakfast daily, dinner Tuesday to Sunday.
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Entertainment · 20+
An intimate gaming lounge on the lower terrace, with casino games from slot machines to blackjack, roulette, poker and live table gaming. Adults only, valid photo ID required.
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Offers
Seasonal stay packages: Stay & Play, the Winter Escape, spa retreats and Gibbston wine weekends. Room, dining and extras in one rate.
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Wellness
Four treatment rooms, a 17-metre indoor pool, alpine sauna and cold plunge. Manuka honey and harakeke-based treatments made in Otago.
Spa & wellness
Meetings
Four event spaces for 8 to 180 guests, from the Wakatipu Room to the lakefront terrace. Weddings, conferences and private celebrations.
Event spaces
Spa & Wellness
The spa occupies the quietest floor of the hotel, one level below the lobby, where the escarpment blocks the road noise entirely. A 17-metre lap pool runs the length of the room under a glazed north wall, with an alpine sauna, steam room and cold plunge alongside.
Four treatment rooms — two of them doubles — offer massage, facials and body treatments using products blended in Central Otago. The signature ninety-minute Escarpment Ritual combines a hot-stone massage with a manuka and kawakawa wrap.
Meetings & Events
Conferences run on the second terrace, weddings on the first. The Wakatipu Room seats 180 for a banquet or 220 theatre-style and opens onto the lake terrace; the Coronet and Cecil rooms divide for breakouts; the Remarkables Boardroom takes 14 around one table.
Every space has natural light, dedicated fibre, and a kitchen two minutes away rather than two floors. Our events team handles the run sheet, the AV and the accommodation block as one booking.
Accommodation
Six categories across four terraced floors. Rates below are indicative lead-in rates per room, per night, including GST and breakfast for two.
The Area
The gondola is a nine-minute walk. Queenstown Airport is 8 km east. Everything else, our concierge will arrange before you arrive.
Scenic cruises on the TSS Earnslaw leave from Steamer Wharf, six minutes on foot. Kayaks and jet boats launch from the same beach.
Two ski fields within 40 minutes, June to October. Ski storage, drying room and morning transfers arranged at reception.
Central Otago pinot noir country, 25 minutes along the Kawarau Gorge. Half-day cellar-door tours depart from the hotel four days a week.
A full day by coach and cruise, or 35 minutes each way by scenic flight. Both booked through the concierge desk with a breakfast box.
Host Responsibility
The gaming lounge at Cliffside Collection operates under the Gambling Act 2003 and our approved host responsibility policy. Entry is restricted to people aged 20 and over, photo ID is checked at the door, and our duty managers are trained to recognise and respond to signs of harm. Self-exclusion is available at any time, in confidence, at reception or by email.
Free, confidential support is available 24 hours a day: NZ Gambling Helpline — 0800 654 655. Read our full host responsibility commitment.
Reservations
Send us the dates and we will come back with availability, a rate and anything else you need arranged — a table at Cecil, a treatment in the spa, a transfer from the airport, or access to the gaming lounge.
Reception is staffed 24 hours. Reservations replies within one business day.
The gaming lounge at Cliffside Collection is reserved for adults aged 20 and over, in line with New Zealand law.
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If you need to speak with someone about gambling, the NZ Gambling Helpline is free and confidential on 0800 654 655, 24 hours a day.