Leanne Millers
Google
As a party of four, we found the Fiordland Lodge's Lake House extremely underwhelming. Located in a residential area of Te Anau, it was anything but private and secluded. There was a public walkway alongside the property as well as another in front but further away allowing people to look directly into the house, people were camping on the block next door to one side and there were caravans and dumped cars on the other. The views looking out from the house were stunning but negated by the cheap fit-out of the property, including hitting one's head on the ceiling when men stood up from the upstairs toilet, flimsy towels, no hairdryer downstairs, the bedrooms were very basic and lacked a chair to sit on, room service was poor and the breakfast provisions were appalling and inadequate. The Fiordland Lodge was unavailable on our dates and we were led to believe that the Lake House was a luxury retreat. We found it anything but.