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Queenstown Winter Festival, 25th June - 4th July

Queenstown is one of New Zealand's premier resort towns and situated in an inlet on Lake Wakatipu, in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is popular with international and New Zealand travellers alike. Whilst it offers a wide range of recreational and tourist pursuits, it is dubbed as the Adventure Capital of New Zealand offering excellent adventure tourism, skiing, jet boating, rafting, bungy jumping, mountain biking and hiking opportunities.

In the winter, Queenstown becomes one of the major centres in New Zealand for snow sports providing skiers and snowboarders with four mountain skifields to choose from: Cardrona, Coronet Peak, the Remarkables and Treble Cone. It's a great, vibrant town in which to enjoy adventure tourism by day and a great party at night—the annual Winter Festival, now in its 36th year, celebrates this Queenstown lifestyle as much as it does the start of the winter season.

Winter Festival Highlights

Many of the festival's events are free and offer family-orientated activities. For the full programme, visit the Queenstown Winter Festival website – a few of the (free) festival highlights are listed below:

Queenstown Winter Festival 2010
  • Opening party and fireworks
  • Arts and crafts market
  • Street parade and family fun day
  • Mardi Gras on the streets of Queenstown
  • Teddy bears picnic
  • Sports, fitness and dance exhibitions, races and events

Queenstown Accommodation

With thousands of visitors expected to arrive in Queenstown specifically for the winter festival, accommodation will get booked up early. Queenstown offers visitors a wide variety of accommodation to choose from including:

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