 Welcome to Queenstown guys. Look at this. Do you see this? I know. I'm sure the video does not capture how good this looks right now, but I just thought I'd take a moment and just talk about what it's like coming to New Zealand and coming to Queenstown specifically. You guys, you're not gonna want to miss this place. In this video I'm going to highlight some of the cool places that you can visit whether it's with kids or with a romantic partner or with some girlfriends. Just so many fun things to do here and experiences and like everywhere that I've been and everywhere that I've experienced has just been wow. Like it's gonna be hard to leave. Welcome to Queenstown. Look at this view. Look at the beautiful colors. Look at the lake and I got the key to the suite at the stay at Queenstown and it's amazing. Let's go check it out. Oh look at the fireplace. Look at this kitchen. Oh my god. A private note. Oh wine. Yes. Look at these goodies. Look at everything you need. Oh fridge that has food in it. Wow. Fresh eggs. I think I'm gonna like it here. This is great. Okay. Bathrobes. Yes. That's what I'll be living in. Look at this beautiful bathroom. Oh my goodness. Let's go check out the bedroom. Yes. Oh the view. Goodness. The mountain range. I think that's oh yes. Oh yes. This is so look at how cute this is. This is like the perfect female treat getaway. Like I'm going to take my friends here. Okay I just need to talk about some of these special touches that you get at the stay of Queenstown is called this lavender eye pillow and like you heat it up and put it over your eye and it smells amazing and I have fresh flowers and a diffuser right next to my bed. Look at over here. You got to see this. It's called a shoe bag. A shoe bag. I don't think you put your shoes in that. I think they're giving you. Look at this. Not only do we have robe, we have slippers. Oh yeah. You guys have got to check out the stay of Queenstown while I'm here with Ingrid from the stay of Queenstown. It's on a stay of Queenstown and she owns this beautiful place that I had been staying at that I love and so I just want to take a moment to talk to her about you know you know what was your vision for this place and tell us your story and how did this get started. We've had this place. Well the place is the sections for over 30 years. Oh okay. And so I was a business owner in Wellington and I solved that with the intention of coming down and having a nice lifestyle creating beautiful accommodation like a home away from home. Let me tell you so I stayed one night so far and I love it. It is like I I'm working here so I'm like working during the day and it's just like you know I don't want to leave so and then what are like when people stay here like what are your customers saying are they saying like why is it that they like here what are some of the comments that you're getting. The comments are always that it's that we thought of everything in the style and design but also that it's better than they saw on the internet because I think once when you when you park your car so every suite comes with a free car park for the duration of the stay. Oh that's nice at Queenstown. And so you park your car and then straight away you're met with the beautiful mountain and the lake views so all of our suites have the mountain and lake views and so yeah that's what that's what takes everyone in so much so that quite often people you know they like a hotel to sleep at or a motel to sleep in but they're quite happy to stay around here for longer if they sit on the balcony take in the view if it's winter and there's a storm rolling in they'll watch the storm and there's no storm summer they're just yeah taking the sunset yeah that's what I would say you can come here and unwind you can come here and bring your friends you can come here and play golf. Yeah well thanks Ingrid for sharing your story a little bit about this place. Alright we're going on the jet boat today it's gonna be great I'm not driving I don't think I would go that fast if I was driving but it's gonna be great I have to say that I'm a little bit nervous about it I don't really like going on super fast things but I've always wanted to try it because it's so beautiful and I happened to have chosen a beautiful day to do this so it's gonna be exciting let's go check it out. So the riverbed itself is loaded with alluvial flake gulf so for example after New Zealand's lockdown you know the big lockdown last year a person found a nugget with about 70,000 just a corner with a metal detector so if you fall out you might as well just getting off the jet boat oh my gosh you guys my words are these only in New Zealand I'm just trying to imagine something like that being happening in the US I don't know I don't think there's no seatbelts you're just unbelievably fast on a boat through a canyon it was awesome you guys if you've never tried this you have to try this it's like nothing I've ever done oh my gosh okay for some nightlife in Queen's Town you must make a stop at the minus five degree ice bar it is so much fun no matter who you're with you're gonna have a great time everything in the whole bar is ice everything you sit on everything that you touch now it looks like it's really cold but they do dress you appropriately so it wasn't too bad and it is so much fun as you can see we had a blast at the ice bar okay it's time for some yoga healthy self yoga is an amazing place whether you've just skied all day or you've been mountain biking or whatever crazy fun activity you've been doing in Queen's Town you need to stretch and the healthy self yoga is the place for you it is welcoming of every type of person everybody is a yoga body is their slogan I am here with Sean and James and we are at healthy self yoga and I just did this amazing class with them and I'm so relaxed so sorry if I'm talking slowly and this is just a really great studio for oncoming if you need a stretch after skiing or after mountain biking or any of the other crazy activities you can do in Queen's Town but I thought I'd take a moment to talk with these guys and they could share a little bit of other story and about their place and and their vision for it we've been open here for about a year and a half now is that Russian year and a half wow okay and yeah we've started we wanted to have a place where everybody could come and be welcome everyone's got lots of things that they're on a venture here for so a place that you can come in relax and then stretch out or if you're looking for something active or engaging so something that's nice and more rounded if you're looking for it and we've got it here for you so when we our first deciding to bring something to Queen's Town we thought something was missing in the sort of wellness space we wanted to bring something that was all inclusive to everyone in this community it is such a beautiful community and we just wanted to put out there that you can come and do yoga it doesn't matter who you are or what size you are or you know to do the put if you can't if you don't think you can do the postures or if you're a beginner and you come along then all our classes are beginner friendly to start your practice on your wellness journey yes and if you check out their website it's very clear about that and it's definitely the feeling when you come in because I've been to a couple of yoga studios and it's just you know you feel like everybody's doing the same thing and like maybe you're the new person but you don't get that feeling here like everybody's welcome being all inclusive that was the basis for our motto which is everybody is a yoga body and we had it translated into tutorials so that's a big part of who we are Maori and non Maori and obviously when I'll tell us so it translated to and we thought that was a great story because there's no Maori word for yoga however Toko Kai means to spread your limits and glide along which was a beautiful story which is why that is our motto. Another great place to take the whole family on an adventure is the iFly yes it's the indoor skydiving facility and is so much fun from your own perspective on that the terminal velocity of the skydive is going to be 9 to K so you know in all power and then what you have what's very pulling down are hurricanes really yeah and a hurricane wind speed is about 113km now so we're going to take double that so it's like flying into hurricanes oh we're going to find it's a hurricane which is exciting you just have kicks that go oh that takes a really scary really fun okay guys we just got out of the iFly oh my gosh it was awesome like I would not really consider skydiving but after that I actually might like you can actually get the real feel for what it feels like and if you can do it and if you would even enjoy it it's fantastic and they like take you up and it's so great you guys it's just great for families it's you know great for anybody that just wants to try before they even go skydiving or seeing if they would like it and it's really great I highly recommend it okay guys today we're heading out on an e-bike tour of the wineries in gifsten valley and so we have a tour company called going blue picking us up from our hotel taking us to aro town and then we will ride our e-bikes down to gifsten valley and do some wineries so it's about four hours total so two hours riding your bike around and then two hours enjoying the wineries and then when you're done you just text them and they pick you up from where you're at and bring you back it's an amazing service and I'm so excited about this because it's going to be my first time on an e-bike and I have been dying to try them here we go um so these are 2021 giant talons they're about four thousand dollars I've never been on an e-bike before I've been dying to try it and so I'm so excited about this especially you know biking around wineries sounds great an aro town looks like this beautiful town the going blue e-bike experience was amazing their bikes are so high quality it makes me want to get an e-bike the odyssey sensory maze is so much fun it's basically all these different rooms that you walk through and you have different sensory experiences and some I thought not sure if I want to do this but it was so great so just jump in have some fun with the whole family and enjoy this maze you are not going to want to miss this spot when you're in queen's town okay when in queen's town you must make a stop at the onsen hot pools it's these great private hot pools with amazing views you are not going to want to miss this spot the hilton resort and spot is a cool hotel that's built on the side of a mountain and has so many great amenities it has a pool it has a workout room it has saunas and it has a world-class spa the rooms are beautiful the views are beautiful you can take a water taxi over to the city for only five dollars if you're a guest and let's talk about the food the food is fabulous especially the big breakfast that they serve every morning and let me tell you the scrambled eggs were the best i've ever had when you're in queen's town you must try fur burger it's a famous burger joint for both locals and visitors lots of great things on the menu and as an american you got to have a burger thanks for watching this week guys i hope you enjoyed my video on queen's town i absolutely loved my week here in queen's town and i'm about to leave and so i thought i'd take some time to reflect on my week and just i love it here guys and just so you know this is my third time being here and i've done all different things i've never done before each time and i still have plenty to do here that i haven't done so don't think that you can conquer this small town in a week because there is so much to do and definitely something for everyone now definitely check out some of the places i highlighted here because they're really great and i put little links below in the description that gives you guys discounts if you book through those links so definitely check that out or use those coupon codes uh when you head down to queen's town and it's just amazing here you know last year was a hard rough year and i have been so impressed with how the businesses here have adjusted and pivoted and you know really um provided new services to their customers and the customers are more clear about what they're willing to buy and to do and so everybody's kind of adjusted and i think it's great i think it's great for the customer i think it's great for the business owner and i just think that everybody's getting closer together on what it is that they actually would like to see and so it's it's great so i'm very impressed with the businesses down here but definitely you know buy locally if you're in queen's town and then you know check out all the cool things they have in queen's town because i'm telling you you're not going to be disappointed with this town see you next week