It's great to act like a five year old sometimes
After my beautiful morning cruising Milford Sound, and flying over the stunning South Island countryside, I met Lauren in town and we made our way back up to the Skyline gondola, this time to go on the Luge ride. As we got to the ticket counter for the Gondola, one of the guys behind the counter said, “These girls have been up three days in a row.” And plucky Lauren asked if there was any discount for the third day in a row, they ended up not charging us the cost of the gondola ride $21 and only charged us the cost of the Luge.
We bought five rides, and once at the top of the mountain, picked out our helmets and made our way to the top of the chairlift, where the staff gave some instructions on how to stop.
There are two runs you can take, the slow and scenic one and the fast, adrenalin rush one. As first timers, we had to take the slow scenic run at least once. We really enjoyed it; it is really pretty from up there, you have the gorgeous view of The Remarkables, Lake Wakatipu and the whole of Queenstown, so we were happy to go the slow scenic one for our first two runs. However, once we hit the fast one we couldn’t get enough of it. There were water hazards (a sprinkler wetting the course), dips and bumps you go flying over and you can become airborne, depending on how fast you go, and we were going as fast as we could.
The Luge was wonderful fun and I will do it again first chance I get. It was a shame we were so pressed for time and only managed the five runs, however it was well worth the third trip up to the top of the mountain. When you go to Queenstown, do yourself a favour and go on the Luge, and the great thing is, it doesn’t matter how young or old you are, we met some people in their 70’s who thoroughly enjoyed it and really little kids can ride with their parents.
After our final ride back down the Gondola, we head into town and made our way to the Boardwalk Seafood Restaurant overlooking Lake Wakatipu and the dock where the TSS Earnslaw departs from on its evening cruise. We had a thoroughly enjoyable meal here, not that I can remember what I ate, with my lack of sleep, things were starting to all blur together. I do remember Lauren had the fish and chips, and of course I had some kind of seafood meal, what I do remember (thanks to the photos) was we both tried the wine sampler. With the Duetz Marlborough Cuvee, the Duetz Marlborough Cuvee Rose and the Montana Letter Series ‘O’ Ormond Chardonnay. They were all very lovely wines, and just enough for two very tired girls to be able to make their way home and fall into bed for a sound night sleep.
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