Overview
About Mt Cook Lodge & Motels
Why stop
- Motel units have full kitchens and patios.
- A lower-village base near walks, with dining on site.
Heads up
- Lodge rooms do not directly face Aoraki / Mount Cook.
- Sound can carry between rooms and hallways.
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Aoraki / Mount Cook Tour Guide
Your drive to Mt Cook Lodge & Motels, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
Recorded for this place
Chamois Bar & Grill at Mt Cook Lodge“Chamois Bar and Grill at Mt Cook Lodge is coming up, a casual dinner option with a mountain outlook. The food is Kiwi pub classics, including burgers, pizza and beer-battered fish and chips.”
Plays as you drive up to Mt Cook Lodge & Motels in the Parkwolf Aoraki / Mount Cook Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Red Tarns from Bowen Drive
- Village Petrol Pumps and Bowen Bush Walk
- Visitor Centre and Old Mountaineers’ Café
- The Hermitage and Hillary’s Alpine Centre
- 24 audio storiesacross Aoraki / Mount Cook’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Kea, Rockwren, New Zealand Falcon, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 15 trails, 30 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Mt Cook Lodge & Motels
A lower-village baseMt Cook Lodge & Motels is a lodging property in lower Aoraki / Mount Cook Village, with lodge…
Mt Cook Lodge & Motels is a lodging property in lower Aoraki / Mount Cook Village, with lodge rooms and adjacent self-contained motel units. It sits about 800 m from the Hermitage Hotel and makes a practical base near the village walks. The village has limited accommodation, so book ahead.
Choose the room that fitsValley View lodge rooms look toward Hooker Valley; Village View rooms face the surrounding…
Valley View lodge rooms look toward Hooker Valley; Village View rooms face the surrounding hillside and village. Lodge rooms do not look directly at Aoraki / Mount Cook, so choose by the outlook you want rather than expecting the peak from your window. The operator also lists a ground-floor accessible queen room with an accessible ensuite. Motel studios and family units have full kitchens, lounge areas and patios, and the family units sleep two to five. Motel units include free parking.
Food and arrivalChamois Bar & Grill is on site for pub favourites and Kiwi classics.
Chamois Bar & Grill is on site for pub favourites and Kiwi classics. Motel check-in is at Mt Cook Lodge from October through April; from May through September, it moves to the Hermitage Hotel, about 800 m away.
A couple of tradeoffsSound can carry between some rooms and through hallways, and room upkeep varies between units.
Sound can carry between some rooms and through hallways, and room upkeep varies between units. Light sleepers and anyone particular about room condition should choose carefully.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Aoraki /
139 sightingsKeaMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
73 sightingsRockwrenMost seen around 10 AMSighting map
46 sightingsNew Zealand FalconMost seen around 10 AMSighting map
15 sightingsKererūMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
16 sightingsBellbirdMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
33 sightingsBlack-fronted TernMost seen around 5 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Aoraki / Mount Cook. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
