Lake Tekapo is located in Mackenzie Country in the Southern Island of New Zealand just 3 hours drive from Christchurch. Mount Cook is only a short distance from Lake Tekapo and the cluster of New Zealand's highest peaks border the lake and provide a beautiful backdrop to some of the best views in the world. Whatever your style or budget demands, you will find a wide range of serviced and self-catering accommodation options to suit everyone. Cheap hotels and motels, backpackers and hostels, self catering style apartment accommodation, luxury hotels, B&B's and caravan parks.
Visitors to Lake Tekapo can experience clean air and breathtaking scenery either from the air in a scenic flight, or gaze at the stars on the summit of Mount John where there is an astronomy observatory. Sit back and relax in the hot springs after an trek across the Mackenzie High Country.