YHA Lake Tekapo

Christchurch & Canterbury


New Zealand's newest YHA is also one of the country's best with colourful dorms and private rooms, excellent shared spaces including an upstairs lounge with lake and mountain views, and a modern and spacious kitchen. Downstairs, check out Our Dog Friday for burgers and craft beer.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Christchurch & Canterbury attractions

1. Church of the Good Shepherd

0.25 MILES

The picture window behind the altar of this pretty stone church (built in 1935) gives worshippers a distractingly divine view of the lake and mountains;…

2. Fairlie Heritage Museum

18.29 MILES

A somewhat dusty window on to rural NZ of old, this museum endears with its farm machinery, model aeroplanes, dodgy dioramas and eclectic ephemera…

3. Ngāi Tahu Lake Pukaki Centre

21.18 MILES

Opened in 2019, the Ngāi Tahu Lake Pukaki Centre presents the historical, geological and Māori cultural background of the lake and the region. Don't miss…

5. Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre

26.79 MILES

This multimedia museum opened just three weeks before the 2008 death of the man regarded by many as the greatest New Zealander of all time, explorer and…

6. Tasman Glacier

27.65 MILES

At 27km long and up to 4km wide, the Tasman is the largest of NZ's glaciers, but it's melting fast, losing hundreds of metres of length each year. It is…