Glendale River view Holiday House

15/02/2025

Glendale is an ideal place to stay if you are visiting Doubtful Sound. We are only a three minute walk to the departure point.

10/08/2024

Lake Manapouri is quite low at the moment but looking good today during our day trip up to Glendale.

10/08/2024

We have been busy painting inside Glendale over the winter and what a difference, just one bedroom to go. New drapes in the living area are up and looking good too.

04/08/2024

Toilet upgrade finished in time for guests who arrive next weekend. Thanks to local tiler David Harwood for the transformation. View of the mountains looking good with snow when the fog finally cleared.

09/05/2024

A nice sunny day in Manapouri after a good frost. We are enjoying the view from Glendale looking down the Waiau River, between doing some painting inside.

15/10/2023

It's been a busy week at Glendale. The old steel windows were taken out of the bathroom, toilet & bottom bedroom & replaced with double glazed aluminum ones. A bedroom wall was battened, insulated, gibbed, gib stopped, sanded & then we started painting. Thanks to Parrot, our local builder for being available when we needed him.
We are all cleaned up & it's ready for guests who arrive òn Monday.
We woke to see a sprinkling of snow on the mountains this morning

05/06/2023

The mountains look good on a nice clear morning. A frosty start today in Manapouri.

04/06/2023

Lake Manapouri is very high at the moment after recent heavy rain.

18/04/2023

Otago & Southland locals this is a great discounted overnight trip to Doubtful or Milford Sound during the month of May. Glendale River View is only a 2-3 minute walk to the Doubtful Sound departure point. We have plenty of nights available in May so don't miss out.

Promo code: LOCAL23

08/04/2023

Boaties launch your boat, bring the trailer back and walk 2 mins down walkway to the jetty when staying at Glendale. The new floating jetty is in place beside the upgraded slipway at Manapouri. The walkway to Pearl Harbour from the carpark next to Glendale has some new non slip strips making it safer.

25/03/2023

With summer bookings coming in fast, it is time to book your holiday at Glendale. I know many of you aren't thinking of that yet but we have strong bookings already for January and now only have twelve days left available to book for January 2024. Don't miss out, start making plans today.

13/03/2023

The new toilets in Manapouri are looking flash now. Pearl Harbour, Waiau St opposite The Church & Frasers Beach.

01/01/2023

With hot sunny weather over Christmas & New Year Manapouri has been very busy. Zayden & Cade had lots of fun fishing, biscuiting & skiing with Uncle Tony & Geary & Isaacs families & motorbiking with Uncle Bradley & Corey.

10/11/2022

We have a few boaties stay at Glendale who will be pleased to see the work on the Manapouri boat ramp is progressing.

Council Works at the Manapouri Boat Ramp

09/08/2022

We are looking forward to seeing this upgrade in Manapouri.

REVITALISATION FOR MANAPOURI GOING AHEAD

Revitalisation in Manapouri is scheduled to go ahead early September 2022.

The project includes replacement of the Manapouri boat ramp and adjacent gabion wall, a new jetty, an upgrade of View Street car park and Otta seal application on Fraser’s Beach Road.

Southland District Council project manager Phil Fahey says “part of the upgrade works on the View Street car park will involve some additional drainage and planting to help stabilise the face below the car park.

“The car park will be fitted with car stops to encourage sensible parking for both cars and cars with boat trailers.”

The existing toilets at Pearl Harbour and Fraser’s Beach will be replaced and an additional toilet will be installed opposite the old church on Waiau Street.

To manage the dust on Fraser’s Beach Road, around the corner from Pearl Harbour, the gravel road will be treated with Otta seal. This is a cheaper alternative to chip seal and will help suppress the dust. The treatment should last around seven to 11 years.

The projects were identified in Council’s 2021-2031 Long Term Plan, and Council applied to the Tourism Infrastructure Fund (TIF) for funding to carry out the work. To qualify, public consultation was undertaken.

The proposed budget for the Manapouri project is between $1.3 million and $1.7 million.

Another successful TIF application by Council has enabled the construction of one new toilet and renewal of two boat ramps in Te Anau.

The total TIF funding for the Manapouri and Te Anau projects is around $2.4 million.

The Manapouri project will take approximately 10 to 12 weeks to complete and is due to be finished before Christmas.

15/06/2022

18/04/2022

We notice the level of Lake Manapouri seems to have dropped each time we have been up lately. These photos taken a week ago. I wonder what we will find this week.