Queenstown · Lake Wakatipu · New Zealand
Coastal Verge
A five-star lakeside retreat on the shore of Lake Wakatipu, with refined rooms, two restaurants, a spa and a private gaming lounge for adult guests — all a short walk from the centre of Queenstown.
Welcome
A lakeside casino hotel in Queenstown
Coastal Verge has stood on Shotover Street for thirteen years. The building steps down towards the water, so almost every room looks out over Lake Wakatipu or across to The Remarkables, and the walk into town takes about six minutes.
Ninety-four rooms and suites sit above two restaurants, a spa, an indoor pool and four event spaces. The hotel is a working five-star resort first: most of our guests come for the lake, the mountains and the ski fields, and the concierge desk spends more of its day booking jet boats and Milford Sound coaches than anything else.
The gaming lounge is part of that offering rather than the whole of it. It occupies one floor of the building, opens in the afternoon, and is reserved for guests and visitors aged 20 and over in line with New Zealand law. Everything else at this casino resort — the rooms, the dining rooms, the spa, the terrace — is open to guests of every age.
The Resort
Everything under one roof
Six parts of the hotel, each with its own character. Follow any of them for hours, menus and full detail.
Rooms & Suites
Ninety-four rooms across five categories, from a Classic Room at NZ$289 to the Shotover Penthouse with its own terrace. Lake or mountain outlook in every category above Classic.
View rooms & rates
Matagouri Restaurant
Our main dining room, built around Central Otago produce — Cardrona lamb, Fiordland venison, stone fruit from the Cromwell basin and a list that leans hard on Gibbston Valley.
See the restaurant
The Casino
A single-floor gaming lounge where the casino games run from mid-afternoon: slots, blackjack, roulette, poker and baccarat, plus a small VIP room. On-site play only, adults aged 20 and over, photo ID checked at the door.
Inside the gaming lounge
Promotions & Packages
Stay-and-play weekends, the winter ski package, a spa escape and midweek rates that include breakfast for two in Matagouri. Packages change with the season.
Current packages
Speargrass Spa
Four treatment rooms, a steam room, a sauna and a 20-metre indoor pool on the lower ground floor. Open to house guests from 7am, treatments by appointment.
Spa & wellness
Meetings & Events
Four spaces from an eight-seat boardroom to a room that seats 180 for dinner. Conferences, weddings and the sort of company weekend that ends on the terrace.
Event spacesIn Detail
How the hotel works
Level One
The gaming lounge
Twelve tables and a bank of gaming machines, arranged so the room stays quiet enough to talk across a table. Blackjack and roulette run every day the lounge is open; poker and baccarat run on a posted schedule. The Kelvin Room, off the main floor, takes private bookings for higher-limit table play.
Doors open at 2pm and close at 2am, later on Friday and Saturday. Entry is 20 and over with valid photo ID — a New Zealand driver licence, a Kiwi Access card or a passport. Smart casual dress. There is no online play of any kind: everything happens in the room.
Ground Floor
Two rooms to eat and drink in
Matagouri serves breakfast from 6:30am and dinner from 5:30pm, with a short lunch menu in between. Bobs Cove Lounge next door is the softer option — a long bar, a fire, Central Otago pinot by the glass and a supper menu that runs until midnight.
Room service covers the full lounge menu 24 hours a day. Private dining for up to fourteen is available in the Cellar Room with a day's notice.
Lower Ground
Speargrass Spa & wellness
A 20-metre indoor pool, a sauna, a steam room and four treatment rooms. The spa menu is short on purpose: deep tissue, hot stone, a facial built for dry alpine air, and a two-hour treatment for people who have just come off the Routeburn.
The gym alongside it is open around the clock to house guests, with cardio equipment, free weights and a stretching area facing the water.
Level Two
Four event spaces
The Wakatipu Room seats 180 for dinner or 240 theatre-style and opens onto its own terrace. Two smaller rooms divide for breakouts, and the boardroom takes eight around a single table. All four have natural light, which is rarer in this town than it should be.
Weddings, conferences, product launches and the occasional 60th. Our events team quotes on the room, the catering and the accommodation block together.
Accommodation
Rooms & suites
Rates below are the lowest available for two guests, room only, and move with the season. Breakfast in Matagouri is NZ$38 per person.
Classic Room
from NZ$289 per night
26 m², queen bed, courtyard or street outlook. The sensible choice for a short stay.
Details
Superior Lake View
from NZ$369 per night
32 m², king or twin, full-width window over Lake Wakatipu.
Details
Executive Room
from NZ$479 per night
41 m² with a separate sitting area, work desk and Nespresso.
Details
Kelvin Suite
from NZ$689 per night
58 m², one bedroom, a proper living room and a balcony facing Kelvin Heights.
Details
Shotover Penthouse
from NZ$1,240 per night
112 m² on the top floor: two bedrooms, a private terrace and the best outlook in the building.
Details
In every room
Free Wi-Fi, blackout curtains, heated bathroom floors, a minibar restocked daily and a laundry service back the same day if it is in by 9am.
All roomsQueenstown & Central Otago
What is on the doorstep
The concierge desk holds current timetables for everything below and books most of it without a fee. Ask the night before if you want an early start.
Lake Wakatipu
Two minutes from the front door. Scenic cruises to Walter Peak leave from Steamer Wharf, kayaks launch from the bay below Lake Esplanade, and the lakeside path runs the whole way into town.
The Remarkables
Forty minutes by road to the ski field, and visible from most of the building. In summer the same road gets you to the Lake Alta walk and the Wye Creek track.
Coronet Peak & Cardrona
Coronet is the closest field at twenty-five minutes; Cardrona and Treble Cone are an hour or so over the Crown Range. Ski storage and a drying room are on the lower ground floor.
Gibbston Valley
Twenty-five minutes east, along the Kawarau Gorge. Half-day and full-day wine tours run daily, and the cycle trail through the valley can be ridden one-way with a pickup.
Milford Sound & Fiordland
A long day — coaches leave around 7am and return after dark — but the one trip most guests say they would do again. Flights cut it to half a day when the weather allows.
Town, and the rest of it
Six minutes on foot to the town centre and the gondola. Bungee at the Kawarau bridge, jet boating on the Shotover, Arrowtown for the afternoon, Glenorchy for the drive.
Host Responsibility
We look after our guests
Coastal Verge holds host responsibility obligations under the Gambling Act 2003. In practice that means the gaming lounge is 20 and over with ID checked at the door, our staff are trained to notice when someone is not enjoying themselves any more, and anyone who asks to be excluded from the lounge is excluded — quietly, and for as long as they want.
There are no clocks-off-the-wall tricks here. The lounge has clocks, windows and posted closing times, and cash machines are not sited on the gaming floor.
Free, confidential help
NZ Gambling Helpline — 0800 654 655
Free, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Need to Talk? — 1737
Call or text, any time, to speak with a trained counsellor.
Problem Gambling Foundation — 0800 664 262
Text 8006 · choicenotchance.org.nz · safergambling.org.nz
Reservations
Make an enquiry
Send us the shape of the stay and reception will come back with availability and a price, usually within a few hours. For same-day arrivals please call +64 3 442 6180.