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While being a quieter town compared to Queenstown, Wanaka offers a welcoming small town vibe, with friendly
locals and a buzzing après-ski atmosphere. With a great range of bars, restaurants and cafés to choose from there’s something for all tastes and budgets to keep you fed and entertained off the mountain.

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  • Hello Ranger
    Northlake’s go-to local is Hello Ranger - part bar, part café, all good vibes. Expect great food, live tunes every week, and sports on screen whenever the game’s on.
    Cuisine: Café
    Phone: +64 3-4436665
  • Scroggin
    Scroggin is purpose-designed café which shares only seasonal, sustainable and local produce from New Zealand growers and farmers. Great coffee too!
    Cuisine: Café
  • Woody's Sports Bar
    Centrally located in town Woody’s offers an easy going social hub where you can watch live sports, play pool or foosball and enjoy a cold beer or wine.
    Cuisine: Sports Bar
  • Cork Bar
    A bar that prides itself on offering the best beers and wines from the region. Knowledgeable and friendly staff make this a lovely place to visit!
    Cuisine: Bar
  • Wanaka Bullock Bar
    Your classic pub with a huge range of beers on tap, tasty pub grub and daily specials, 16 big screen TV’s showing all your favourite sports, pool tables, dart boards, TAB and more.
    Cuisine: Pub
  • Lalaland Lounge Bar
    Live music, tasty tacos, lake views and the best cocktails in town. A little hard to find but worth the effort.
    Cuisine: Bar
  • Bistro Gentil
    Located just outside town with beautiful lake views, surrounded by lavender trees, you can experience traditional French cuisine. With an extensive menu and wine to match you will not be disappointed.
    Cuisine: French
  • Kika
    A modern tapas style restaurant and bar with an emphasis on high quality seasonal produce. Exceptional service and lovely atmosphere makes this a top pick.
    Cuisine: 2 Dunmore Street, Wanaka
  • Red Star Burger Bar
    Fresh and tasty gourmet burgers located in the heart of town, a great family friendly option with a kids menu.
    Cuisine: Burgers
  • Ashraf's
    A family owned Indian restaurant with delicious well priced meals and friendly service. You can dine in their cosy ‘living room’ restaurant or order take away for a cosy night in.
    Cuisine: Indian
  • Big Fig
    Lebanese inspired food packed full of flavour. An ever changing menu of slow cooked meats, spicy meatballs, vegetarian tagines, stews as well as tasty treats.
    Cuisine: Slow Cooked Meats & Salads
  • Brownston Street Food Trucks
    You’ll find a selection of delicious, quick and easy food options on Brownston Street. From Mexican at Burrito Craft, French crêpes at Charlie Brown, wood fired pizza at Francesca’s or healthy meals at Dripping Bowl.
    Cuisine: Food Trucks
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Lizzie was so helpful, gave us some options and advice to help us pinpoint where we wanted to go. And once we had booked provided some really helpful travel advice and answering questions we had. Easy to deal with, everything was smooth and we had a great time.
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Calum was awesome at helping us every step of the way with our trip. We got a great deal on the accommodation and ski lift, and we will definitely come back to Mountainwatch next time based on his excellent service.
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I booked my Japan ski holiday through Mountainwatch. Very professional and when we arrived in Japan all was laid out for us. The accommodation was even nicer than expected. KIrsty was very good to work with and made things very easy!!!! will book again next season.
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Great experience booking through this company, our contact Anna was brilliant, and organised a fantastic ski trip for us. The travel was all clearly laid out, the accommodation was lovely, the ski field was fantastic, great range of local dining options and bars.
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Mountain Watch are great, well organised and excellent advice on locations and accommodation. Highly recommended!
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Thanks Kirsty for helping arrange our family trip to Myoko for Xmas 2025, we had an amazing time
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Jan Kelly
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Thanks Kirsty, once again your arrangements for us in Japan worked very well. We’ll have no hesitation about touching base with you before we make another booking….. not sure if we’ll be organised by June, but we’ll see. Have a great season yourself and keep up the good work at MountainWatch. Regards Jan and Tom
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Samantha Farr
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Our trip to Hakuba and Tokyo was so smooth and easy thanks to the help of Justine. Hotel was great and in a perfect location and it was very smooth having all our extras like lessons and rentals booked and sorted before we arrived. Would 100% book through Mountainwatch Travel again!
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John Durham
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This is the second year that Kristy has organized travel arrangements for a skiing holiday to Furano in Japan, for us. It is the second time that those arrangements have been fulfilled seamlessly. No hassles, as planned and on time. Perfect, and will use Mountainwatchj Travel again. John Durham
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We booked through Anna O’Malley for our stay in Nozawa onsen Village in Japan. Seamless service, prompt, and pricing reasonable. The Shimataya View Hotel, was a lovely stay. Room size was large, great views, and Amazing service from Staff. Momoi and Eloisa couldn’t help enough- from dinner reservations to organising luggage to Tokyo. Property is older, though clean, well maintained. 10 min walk to slopes, 5 min walk to village centre. I recommend Mountain Watch, and this property. Photos are the view from our room.
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