Queenstown, New Zealand Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

QUEENSTOWN , the country's main centre for adventure sports, is in many ways a victim of it own popularity, at times feeling like an overcrowded theme park where things are just too money-conscious. One of New Zealand's most commercialized year-round resorts, it has capitalized to an enormous degree on being set beside the beautiful, deep-blue Lake Wakatipu and hemmed in by craggy mountains, but a haphazard attitude to local planning and massive building programmes has allowed hotels to appear on the foreshore and more and more lavish residences – some owned by Hollywood film stars, including … more »