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Reviews of Lake Stella Mountain Retreat

3 out of 5
Lake Stella Mountain Retreat
102 Mt Lyford Forest Dr, Lyford, Canterbury

Reviews

9.6

Exceptional

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9.8/10

Cleanliness

10/10

Staff & service

8.8/10

Amenities

9.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

10/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Lea

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Wow! What a space! The drive up is rather intense and I wonder if maybe there should be a warning when booking like other spaces have? Otherwise it was almost otherworldly when we arrived in the thick fog and woke in the morning to wonderful scenery. Definitely recommend
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Yuriy

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Anna

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rob

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jamela

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The place is definitely beyond majestic, plus very kind staff and locals. The pictures seen online doesn't really give complete justice to how amazing this place is. I strongly recommend this place for a holiday getaway for you and your loved ones. See it for yourself and you will know what I mean -- I suggest going during winter season. My partner and I will definitely go back to this amazing paradise! Not to mention this place is a dog-friendly one. How cool is that!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Off the grid but with amazing solar power and heaps of firewood fully prepped for our outside hot tub and our inside fire
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2021

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Peace and quiet
Looking for somewhere different? 1260m above sea level in a ski field area in summer. Great scenery and some good walks. Sometimes windy. The road access is what you would expect for a ski field.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The hut was well designed and the little fire place was great at heating the hut, hot tub was a nice treat and the kitchen and bathrooms are very good too.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Perfect weekend getaway
This place is amazing! Stunning views, peaceful, comfy bed, everything clean, organized, kitchen fully equipped, the bathtub is awesome to relax and is actually bigger than it looks like. Tim was very helpful and friendly. We will definitely going back and we will recommend this place to all our friends! Take repellent, fly spray, citronella candles and everything you can to keep the flys away lol
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2021

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The location was amazing. We were blown away by the stars!! The hit tub was great and super easy to get going.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2021

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wish we had wi-fi in the huts too, not only in the main hut!!!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2021

8/10 Good

Anna, New Zealand

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
Beautiful location. Great little main cabin with showers and toilets etc (no fridge, if you bring anything cold in winter just leave it out in the snow!) the pillows were pretty sad and felt like they might give up soon, bed needed more blankets as it was pretty chilly, but bearable. Hot tub fairly hard to get going, ended up having a luke warm bath but cant fault it purely because of the beauty of the location, would come back!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Awesome spot. Such a friendly mountain. Couldn’t get the tub hot so will have to return
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2020

10/10 Excellent

Eliza, Christchurch

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
Most amazing stay. .....perfect clear skies and amazingly clear blue skies in the morning. We will be back
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2020

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Joe

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Get away from it all!
Wow, where to begin? We had been in NZ for two weeks and decided to stay here our last night before flying out. I wish we had stayed longer, because this place is unreal, you feel like you are literally on top of the world! Tim was great, showed us around and made us feel welcome the sunset and stars up here at night are unbelievable. On our next trip back we will be staying here again for sure!
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Such a special place. Will definitely return there.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019
Response from Tim on 18 Mar,2019
Thanks for staying. Nice to meet you and we look forward to you coming back.