At an eye-watering $187,500 a week, the nearly completed Sanandaloka luxury lodge in the Bay of Islands will surely be the most expensive place in New Zealand to lay one's head.
Monday, July 4th 2005, 7:25AM
by The Landlord
Taking a huge leap beyond the relatively meagre $1000 or $2000 charged by New Zealand's most elite luxury lodges, Sanandaloka will house up to eight people at almost $3350 each a night or, should a couple want some privacy, more than $26,000 a night.
Outrageous? Not at all, says manager Graham Fowell, comparing the $8.5 million construction to Virgin mogul Richard Branson's Necker Island resort and New York's $US25,000 a night penthouses.
In New Zealand, it compares with long-time glamour leader Huka Lodge in Taupo, which charges up to $2311 a night, or Bay of Islands' Kauri Cliffs, which charges $1788.
Rotorua's Treetops, famously the host of Hollywood royalty Renee Zellweger and Jamie Lee Curtis among others, slips in at up to $1500 a night.
