Beautiful, historical B&B + chalets - Tophouse
Situated 9 km from St Arnaud, Nelson Lakes, just over an hours drive from Nelson, Blenheim, or Murchison.
Tophouse is a solid mud (cob) ex-hotel dating back to the 1880s. It has five guest rooms and an open fire which has been continually burning since 1988. The house offers guests dinner, bed and breakfast for $90.00 NZ for an adult, and bed and breakfast only is $60.00 per person.
It is also the closest accommodation to the nearby Rainbow skifield, and is one of the accommodation houses which does a deal with the skifield and Interislander ferries known as the sea-to-ski package. Bookings for sea-to-ski deals can be arranged with the Interislander.
The Cosyview Cottages were added in 1996, and are two bedroom, self contained, with capacities ranging from 4 to 6 people. They offer this for nz$110 per couple, nz$15.00 each additional person, children under 10 free.
All this is situated on a 700 acre (300 hectare) farm, with amazing alpine scenes, heaps of animals.