New hotel for Wanaka

Press, 29 August 1986, Page 28

New hotel for Wanaka

PA Invercargill Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation, which runs Travel odge in Queens- > town, plans a 200-room hotel in Wanaka. A W'anaka District Committee meeting was told by the chairman of the Lake County Council, Mr T. J. Thomson, that the corporation had a 12month option on a Lake County section above Lakeside Road. The council had reached agreement with Southern Pacific on the site and the corporation had also taken up sixmonth options on several adjacent residential sections, also owned by the county. The corporation plans building a luxury Park Royal hotel on the site, which had been advertised by the county in New Zealand and overseas for development . In file interim, the company says it will complete site investigations and final plans. In a letter io the committee, Southern Pacific’s regional director, Mr Jim Stabieforth, said the company intended to develop top-of-the-market Park Royal hotels throughout the South Island. “We consider Wanaka to have tremendous potential. It will link well with our 304-room Christchurch Park Royal now building and due to open in October, 1988,” he said. The company also proposes extending the Queenstown Travelodge by 87 rooms and when this is complete will rename it the Queenstown Park Royal.