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David Seymour: I'm pro-immigration but we don't need wealthy speaking English

Erica Stanford: we shouldn't force them to stay in NZ

Where’s the bars and cafes or commercial spaces??

If there was one place in Queenstown that you would 100% not live where would it be?

1. Fernhill/Sunshine Bay
2. Lower Shotover (Shotover Country/Lake Hayes Estate)
3. Frankton
4. South Queenstown (Hanley Farm/Park Ridge/Jacks Point/Homestead Bay)
5. Arrowtown
6. Arthurs Point
7. Dalefield
8. Queenstown itself

What is the most reliable weather app?

Google says it’s down to -1C this Sunday and it could snow, meanwhile Metservice is forecasting a pretty warm week ahead. Who’s right?

Hey all, been googling and in contact with movers but thought I’d try my luck here. Wondering if anyone is moving to Auckland / northland and can fit a queen sized bed in there load. Will of course pay just trying to save a bit of money instead of it being like 300-600 to get it home. I’m moving in the next two months not stressed with it taking some time to get up there or going sooner than me. Alternatively if you have any ideas to get a bed to at least the north island would love to hear haha

Title. I know today they’re closed for gale force winds, curious if anyone knows if there’s a chance they’ll be open in the next day or so. Cheers.

Hey all! Been living here for a couple of months and wanting to get a regular trivia night on the calendar.

• ​Which spot in town runs the best weekly pub quiz?

• ​Anyone keen to join a team or looking for an extra player?

​Open to any night of the week, cheers!

Hi all! I have a job offer that pays 120k NZD per year in QT. Is this a good salary there? My spouse would also make around 30k per year from casual work. Is it worth our while to move there?

If we decide to move there, do you have any suggestions for a good neighborhood? Any tip or information that we should know of before we decide to move? Thanks all in advance!

Keen to have a beer and hang my queen.

PSA. if you’re trying to get through Frankton or anywhere in Frankton and you’re heading towards Hanley’s farm. Be prepared to be stuck in traffic for a while. Remarks park and surrounds is gridlocked to the main road with the queue well back towards BP. Road works start just before the first corner in the 100k zone and are causing the delays

Pls.

Every now and again I would get the NPD fried chicken, and man it was good - now that the night and day is in there they've changed it and man it's shit.

So avoid. I don't get why people change a good thing.

Hey are there a lot of winter illnesses going around town at the moment? It seems everyone is off sick

Dear Queenstown residents, my family and I are visiting your beautiful town in December 2026 and we are asking for your advice. We are renting a car from EZU to travel around, and we need to return the car by 5am on the day we leave for our home in Singapore. We wrote to EZU to ask if they provide shuttle service from their drop-off point to the airport, but they said they are unable to at 5am and have asked us to find alternatives ourselves.

We would like to seek your thoughts on whether calling for an Uber or using Beam shared e-scooter would be possible for us to make our way back from EZU car rental drop-off point to Queenstown Airport at 5am on a Sunday in December 2026. If it isn’t, would you recommend another car rental company?

Thank you and we look forward to visiting your beautiful town!

Hi everyone, posting here as we didn't get a response in the weekly thread.

We're travelling from Dunedin and have started learning snowboarding. We can't tell from forecast yet the likelihood of ski resorts opening and wanted to ask whether tomorrow should be good?

We went to Cardrona yesterday and plan to go tomorrow if possible. Thanks!

Does anyone have a copy of DiRT Rally 2.0 PS4 they would like to sell In Queenstone. I’m desperate for my rally fix

Kia ora and welcome, whether you're here for a week or you've been here since the town had one supermarket.

This is the thread for visitor questions. Itineraries, day trips, where to eat, which lake activities are actually worth the money, whether you need chains in July, what to do when it rains for three days straight. Ask away. No question is too basic and nobody here is going to sneer at you for it.

Why we ask you to use this thread: r/Queenstown is a small subreddit for a small town. When a dozen separate "3 days in Queenstown, what should I do?" posts land in a week, the front page becomes entirely holiday planning and the local stuff (roadworks, rentals, council nonsense, lost dogs, the state of the traffic) gets buried. That's not great for the people who live here, and it's honestly not great for you either, since a scattered post gets three replies while this thread gets the locals who actually know things.

So: enthusiasm very much welcome, just pointed in one direction. Consolidating it here means you get better answers and the locals stay calm enough to keep giving them.

Before you post, a quick nudge:

• Have a scroll of the previous weekly threads, most questions have been asked before and the answers are good
• Tell us your dates, budget and how much you like walking uphill, it makes the answers ten times more useful

Locals: be generous in here. These people are the reason we have that many restaurants for a town this size.

Posts asking general visitor questions outside this thread may be removed and redirected here. Nothing personal, we just like being able to find things.

Hi all

We are planning a small wedding for approximately 20ppl in 2027 and I’m unsure what to do and where to go for our reception dinner with our guests.

We want something special (it is a wedding after all!) and I’m overwhelmed with options. Fireplace or moody comfy interior where we can relax for the rest of the evening is a plus.

Doesn’t help that I’m planning it from Australia and I can’t go see the venues…

Has anyone recently had a special event at any of the following venues, or have any idea if these would be lovely:

- Botswana Butchery (Garden Room)
- Eichardt’s (Parlour Room)
- The Bunker
- The Pavilion (Green Room)
- Rata
- The Nest

Any places that I’m missing?

I haven't checked along the lakefront yet but saw this on my way into work today. So does this apply to food vendors as well as just general vendors does it also apply for buskers as I was reading something about how they need to move on every hour or something along those lines.