Lake Matheson Motels Fox Glacier
If you're looking for motels in Fox Glacier offering great quality, value and comfortable accommodation, then Lake Matheson Motels, just 400 metres from the heart of the township, is an ideal choice for you. This Fox Glacier hotel quality accommodation offers studio units and family accommodation.
Lake Matheson Motel has been in business as a New Zealand West Coast accommodation since 1988. The original Fox Glacier accommodation was built by George and Dorothy Halsey, and is still owned by the same family. Today it is run by Fox Glacier local, Bruce Butler, his wife Jane and daughter Christie. Their love of South Westland is reflected in their knowledge of the area, and their desire to share that knowledge and enthusiasm with you.
Lake Matheson Motel has a wide range of rooms. We have been expanding the complex continually and now have a varied mix of modern units, older renovated units, standard, premium, spa bath, studio and family accommodation. We are proud to say that our accommodation is on a par with the quality you would expect of Fox Glacier hotels.
Don't let our name mislead you because Lake Matheson Motel is a definitely a motel in Fox Glacier! You’ll find us situated just 400 metres away from the main street running through the Fox Glacier township. Lake Matheson, for which we are named, lies 6km further along Cook Flat Road and we'd certainly recommend you visit it during your stay with us.
Not only does Lake Matheson Motel in Fox Glacier enjoy an excellent central location, it also benefits from a peaceful garden setting under Mt Cook.
Address Of Our Motel in Fox Glacier
Lake Matheson Motel
Corner Cook Flat Rd & Pekanga Drive
Fox Glacier
(Postal address is P O Box 23, Fox Glacier)
Directions
From South
(Queenstown, Wanaka or Haast)
Drive into the Fox Glacier township. Take the first and only road on your left and drive down this 400m. On your left, you will see the Lake Matheson Motel sign.
From North
(Christchurch, Greymouth, Hokitika or Franz Josef)
Drive into the Fox Glacier township. Take the first and only road on your right and drive down this 400 m. On your left you will see the Lake Matheson Motel sign
http://www.lakematheson.co.nz/
From Wikipedia
The Fox Glacier/Te Moeka o Tuawe is a glacier located in Westland National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It was named in 1872 after a visit by the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sir William Fox.
Geography
Fed by four alpine glaciers, Fox Glacier falls 2,600m on its 13km journey from the Southern Alps down to the coast, and although retreating throughout most of the last 100 years, it has been advancing since 1985 at an average of about a meter a day.
The outflow of the glacier forms the Fox River.
Tourism
Like the nearby Franz Josef Glacier, it is one of the most accessible glaciers in the world, with its terminal face an easy 5km walk from Fox Glacier village/Weheka. It is a major tourist attraction and about 1000 people daily visit it during high tourist season. Though people are told not to, some go beyond the barriers and climb without guides onto the glacier, whose rapid advance creates dangers of sudden ice and rockfalls.[1]
Fox has also the distinction of being one of the few glaciers to end among lush rainforest only 300 metres above sea level.
Fox Glacier village/Weheka functions mainly as a service centre for tourists, though it also services the local farming community.