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$70MILLION QUEENSTOWN BOUTIQUE LUXURY HOTEL

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April, 2023

Queenstowns next luxury boutique hotel opens early 2025 at an
overall investment cost of about $70 million.
Featuring 23 suites over five floors, plus a basement carpark, Roki
Collection Queenstowns being built by Cook Brothers Construction
on the Lake Esplanade/Brunswick Street corner.
The Brisbane-based developers, wholl also operate the hotel,
also developed the Upper Village precinct near the Skyline
gondola.
When Mountain Scene recently reported neighbouring unit owners
concerns over construction noise and vibrations, director Denis
Mackenzie was fully sympathetic as Upper Village had experienced
similar disruption from roadworks and Skylines redevelopment
project.
Roki director of operations/impending GM Stephen McAteer says
theyre proud to be involving the best-of-the-best, including
architect Lawrence Sumich of award-winning Auckland-based
Sumich Chaplin Architects, leading interior designer Virginia Fisher
and landscape architect Suzanne Turley, who won a major award
for The Hills garden, near Arrowtown.
The design, inspired by the Mori quest for greenstone in the area
and Europeans quest for gold, will incorporate Glenorchy river
stones and
Gibbston schist rock.
Roki is Mori for tranquil, and McAteer says the developers plan
to develop other luxury hotels in New Zealand and Australia in the
same collection.
Suite sizes range from 60 square metres to 550sqm for the four-
bedroom penthouse, with tariffs ranging from about $2000 a night
to about $25,000 for the penthouse.
Therell also be a library bar, private lounges, spa, pool, gym and
a world-class 40-cover open-to-the-public restaurant and
terrace bar.
The developers have partnered with Australian-based EarthCheck
to ensure a sustainability focus.
McAteer expects to employ 50-plus staff to service their maximum
guest capacity of 44.
He notes they already own three houses theyll use for staff and
are looking for at least two more.
Ultimately, we want our property to be internationally acclaimed
but locally loved, so we cant wait to open our doors, he says.
Meantime, Queenstowns luxury boutique hotel, The Carlin, just
marked its first anniversary.

Source: Mountain Scene