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  • Andrew Harpers Hideaway Report Logo

    Voted one of the World’s Top 20 Hideaways

    | Richard Rosebery

    Blanket Bay again is named one of the world’s ‘Top 20 International Hideaways’ for 2011 by Andrew Harper’s legendary Hideaway Report. This annual survey of Hideaway Report readers’ favourite hotels and resorts worldwide was released in October 2011.

  • Hotel Management Award 2011

    New Zealand's Best Lodge Hotel Management Award 2011

    | Philip Jenkins

    Blanket Bay’s reputation as Australasia’s ultimate alpine escape and New Zealand’s finest luxury lodge continues to be upheld with its win last Friday night, 2 September 2011, at the hotel industry’s prestigious HM Awards

  • Debbie Crompton

    Debbie Crompton appointed as Executive Chef

    | Philip

    Debbie Crompton is a veteran of a star-studded career that has taken her around the world

  • Top 20 Hideaways

    Blanket Bay voted in the World's Top 10 Hideaways

    | Philip Jenkins

    The discerning readers of the prestigious Andrew Harpers Hideaway Report have voted Blanket Bay 6th in the Top 20 Hideaways in the world, and the best in New Zealand.

  • Joseph Clarke, bronze medal at The Hans Bueschkens World Junior Chef

    Blanket Bay junior chef among best in the World

    | Southern PR

    Junior chef Joseph Clarke added a bronze medal to his collection when he was awarded third place at The Hans Bueschkens World Junior Chefs Challenge in Chile last week.

  • Conde Nast Gold Awards 2010

    Blanket Bay tops 2010 Gold List for Asia, Australia and Pacific regions

    | Alexa Forbes

    Conde Naste Traveler's 2010 Gold List ranks Glenorchy's Blanket Bay as the second-highest scoring property in the world and the top-scoring hotel in Asia, Australia and Pacific nations

  • The Blanket Bay Staff Christmas Party from the left James,April,Marcin,Brian,Lucy,Janelle and Lilianna

    The Blanket Bay Christmas Staff Party

    | Philip Jenkins

    Queenstown Police get into the spirit of Christmas

  • Groundsman Per Lindstrand inspecting the Blanket Bay Worm Farm

    Blanket Bay achieves The Qualmark Enviro-Gold Award

    | Southern PR

    Multi-award-winning Blanket Bay lodge in Glenorchy has added yet another award to its impressive line-up for 2009 -- Qualmark Enviro-Gold.

  • Blanket Bay recognised by USA Conde Nast Traveler Readers

    | Southern PR

    Glenorchy's Blanket Bay has been named the third greatest accommodation property in the world and the best hotel in Oceania by readers of the influential American travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler. It is the only property in New Zealand to have made the Top 100 List.

  • Sunday Times Travel Magazine Awards

    Conde Nast Traveller UK Readers Awards 2009

    | Alexa Forbes

    Readers of one of the world's most influential travel magazines have named Glenorchy's Blanket Bay lodge as the best leisure hotel in Australasia and the South Pacific.

  • Hotel Management Awards

    | Richard Rosebery

    Blanket Bay wins the title of “New Zealand’s Best Regional Property” at the coveted Hotel Management Awards 2009

  • Mark Sycamore

    Multi award-winning Mark Sycamore brings New Zealand to the Orient

    | Blanket Bay

    Mark Sycamore has become one of the select few to have featured as ‘guest chef' at the prestigious Hong Kong Golf & Country Club

  • ForbesTraveler Top 400 Hotels

    Forbes Traveler top 400 hotels

    | Forbes Traveler

    The planet is replete with amazing hotels and resorts, of course: high-rise city hotels with iconic views; hideaway island resorts with your own personal beach; rustic mountain inns with gourmet cuisine; sprawling family resorts with surprisingly personal service. We wanted you to have your pick, without worrying about the difference between, say, No. 50 and No. 54.

  • Mark Sycamore

    Blanket Bay Executive Chef Named

    | Philip Jenkins

    Multi-award winning chef Mark Sycamore will assume responsibility for all culinary operations at Blanket Bay, New Zealand's leading luxury resort near Queenstown from 1 December

  • Hiking The Routeburn Track

    Executive Escapes - Quintessential QUEENSTOWN

    | Christine Retschlag Brisbane Business News

    Welcome to Queenstown, New Zealand's own "alpine escape" where the plane landing itself - which weaves around snowcapped mountains, is as picturesque as the emerald paddocks below.

  • Blanket coverage

    | Michelle Rowe

    Michelle Rowe Travel Editor of 'The Australian' mixes creature comforts with occasional bursts of energy at a luxury lodge on New Zealand's South Island

  • Award winning Blanket Bay Chefs

    Awards and Accolades on Menu for Blanket Bay

    | South Island Salon Culinaire

    Queenstown's multi-award winning Blanket Bay, recently voted New Zealand's Leading Luxury Resort, has been recognised again for its excellence – this time in the kitchen

  • Blanket Bay Chalet Suite at night

    Blanket Bay Lodge maintains top three ranking

    | Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report

  • Philip Jenkins

    Philip Jenkins General Manager Profile

    | Blanket Bay

    Philip Jenkins was appointed General Manager of Blanket Bay a year prior to the opening of the hotel in 1998.

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