{"id":387,"date":"2008-10-08T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T01:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2013-09-08T12:42:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T02:42:23","slug":"luxury-lodges-retreats-and-resorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/luxury-lodges-retreats-and-resorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury lodges, retreats and resorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SIq7PTLOu1I\/AAAAAAAADw0\/KsXgYu675aA\/s400\/LuxuryCard.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nUpdated October 2008: South Island New Zealand - Select Hotels<br \/>\nUpdated November 2008: SLH Blanket Bay<br \/>\nUpdated November 2008: Pure Tasmania\/Federal Group<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, Rod (sometimes with 'Mrs Travel Writer') has visited a wide range of New Zealand's world famous luxury and exclusive lodges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/pub?key=p4KUcFpc6UrcX7BGx3tjDUQ\">(see comprehensive spreadsheet)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Names like Huka Lodge, Grasmere and Blanket Bay feature prominently, while Rod has also visited the brand new Select Braemar Lodge at Hanmer Springs and sampled the delights of recently opened Otahuna Lodge near Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, the list grows with visits and stays at Wolgan Valley, El Questro, Arajilla, Spicers Peak, Hidden Vale, Bloomfield Lodge, Lilianfels, Q Station and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated October 2008: South Island New Zealand &#8211; Select Hotels Updated November 2008: SLH Blanket Bay Updated November 2008: Pure Tasmania\/Federal Group Over the past three years, Rod (sometimes with &#8216;Mrs Travel Writer&#8217;) has visited a wide range of New Zealand&#8217;s world famous luxury and exclusive lodges. (see comprehensive spreadsheet) Names like Huka Lodge, Grasmere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monolith.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}