Overview
About Panorama Room
Why stop
- Seasonal New Zealand cooking with Aoraki in the window view.
Heads up
- Reservations are essential, so this is not a flexible walk-in meal.
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 Panorama Room, 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
The Hermitage and Hillary’s Alpine Centre“You're nearing The Hermitage, home to the Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre. I'd allow about an hour for this compact museum and its films if you're interested in climbing history.”
Plays as you drive up to Panorama Room in the Parkwolf Aoraki / Mount Cook Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Visitor Centre and Old Mountaineers’ Café
- Village Petrol Pumps and Bowen Bush Walk
- Red Tarns from Bowen Drive
- Chamois Bar & Grill at Mt Cook Lodge
- 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 Panorama Room
A booked dinner in the villagePanorama Room is a sit-down restaurant inside The Hermitage in Aoraki / Mount Cook National…
Panorama Room is a sit-down restaurant inside The Hermitage in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park. It suits a planned dinner with a mountain outlook, not a quick walk-in meal. Reservations are essential. The operator currently excludes children aged 14 and under, so check the age policy before booking a family dinner.
Aoraki through the windowsThe dining room has a tall, dark pitched ceiling and broad windows looking toward Aoraki /…
The dining room has a tall, dark pitched ceiling and broad windows looking toward Aoraki / Mount Cook. That view is the point: you can take in the mountain setting over dinner without adding another walk or road stop.
Contemporary New Zealand cookingThe restaurant describes its food as contemporary New Zealand cooking with locally sourced…
The restaurant describes its food as contemporary New Zealand cooking with locally sourced seasonal produce. It serves a three-course dinner; the online menu is a sample, so check what is being offered when you book instead of counting on a particular dish.
The chef behind the menuExecutive chef Marc Soper has won New Zealand Chef of the Year twice and Wellington Chef of the…
Executive chef Marc Soper has won New Zealand Chef of the Year twice and Wellington Chef of the Year three times, and represented New Zealand with its national cookery team in Singapore and Australia. Those awards give the dinner a strong New Zealand cooking pedigree.
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.
