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Queenstown
Alone

Name: Queenstown Alone
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Author: Jennifer Brandt

A solo travel guide for women 50 and over
By Jennifer Brandt

The Remarkables stand above Lake Wakatipu, and Queenstown works as well for walking as for bungy jumping. Take a bus to Arrowtown's stone cottages, or stay by the lake and watch the light change.

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Where you might stay

Mid-rangeNovotel Queenstown Lakesidereliable, well-located rooms
A treatSofitel Queenstownstaffed desk and lakefront location

Two places to eat alone

Cookie Time Cookie BarAn easy lunch alone in town.
Postmasters Kitchen + BarAn easy room for one in Arrowtown.

SAMPLE

Why Queenstown

Queenstown sells itself on adrenaline, and the marketing is not wrong so much as incomplete. It is a resort town wrapped around Lake Wakatipu, and it has spent sixty years perfecting the business of separating visitors from their money in exchange for a thrill. Bungy jumping was commercialized here. Jet boats scream up a canyon a few miles from the center of town.

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PRACTICAL SAMPLE

Dining Alone

Lunch is the easiest meal to take alone: the cafés on Buckingham Street in Arrowtown, or Cookie Time Cookie Bar (18 Camp Street) in town. For dinner, Yonder (14 Church Street) and Bella Cucina (6 Brecon Street) are moderately priced sit-down rooms in town; book ahead in season and ask for a window table.
Booking ahead, where a restaurant takes reservations, means you are seated as a confirmed guest. Bringing something to occupy the gaps, a book or a notebook, removes any pressure to fill the silence with your phone.
In Arrowtown, Postmasters Kitchen + Bar (54 Buckingham Street) and The Fork and Tap (51 Buckingham Street) are easy rooms for one; in Glenorchy, the pub at the Glenorchy Hotel is the village’s sit-down meal.

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Inside this book

Queenstown Awaits
A Region Shaped by History
Planning Your Escape
The Solo Woman’s Southern Lakes
Where to Stay
Town by Town

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Queenstown Awaits
A Region Shaped by History
Planning Your Escape
The Solo Woman’s Southern Lakes
Where to Stay
Town by Town
Days in the Southern Lakes
What to See
The Pleasures of the Table
Evening & After Dark
Retail Therapy
Beyond the Lake: Day Trips
Talking to People Here
Practical Matters

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