Silverstream Alpaca Farm Stay & Farm Tour — Hotel in South Island

Imagine waking up every day in a farm setting and getting a chance to feed alpacas every morning. That's what you get staying here.||Kit and Sheryl are wonderful people and try not to intrude into your daily plans. Kit is 72! but fit as a fiddle. Sheryl is the quiet one that makes sure the towels and bedlinen are clean and ample. Just ask them, they will always help.||Wifi in the cottage is 24x7. You can log in your Prime/Netflix if you have a subscription.||Please rent a car when in Christchurch New Zealand, you need it to get around as all places of known interest and places like Arthur's Pass, Lake Tekapo, Akaroa and Castle hill are typically 3-4 hrs drive return. You need it to get that occasional coffee or meal fix.||The cottages are equipped with a kitchen so you can cook and they have dishwashers to do the washing later. Microwave and toaster are available. ||Winter period was kind of cold for us but the heaters will help bring the temp up.||The alpaca tour is a one time useful session with Kit ( but watch out for Alpha poop, little pellets and DO NOT stand behind an alpaca as they tend to kick) but this is a farm :) You get to understand the medal-winning alpacas that Kit has.||The breakfast that comes with your stay is continental breakfast design, meaning bread you can toast, jam, cereal, and milk. Nothing cooked or hot. Kit and Sheryl provides eggs every morning so you can poach or fry the eggs. Just ask for some cooking oil. So if need the ham and sausages, get them from Woolworth. ||A daily visit to Woolworth at Northlands will help city folks get some "retail" fix where as usual big shopping market and there are some decent foodcourt, restaurants and bakeries. ||Our 3 nights stay was fantastic for the family, after an alpaca feeding ( you can grab the hey and make new friends with the alpacas, you head out and come back to your cottage after a stop at Woolswoth (they close at 10pm). So you can do a takeaway but we like to cook so we get fresh produce and make lovely nutritious dinners. ||2 rooms - 1 has a Queen size bed and the other 2 singles. ||The farm is not that far from the airport and central Christchurch CBD. ||For more proximity with animals, we visited Orana Wildlife, Willowbank Wildlife.||For more trekking and hills, shoot for Castlehill (the natural rocks looks short but its a climb), Arthur's pass (do the Punchbowl trek with 380+ steps to the waterfall) and Mt Cook ( the right path to the hill to see the glaciers)||For excitement - Zipline! Must DO. feel what an eagle feels snoring 100ms above the ground.||For a bit of history (Quake City to see the Citadels that fell and watch the lives of people affected)||Plenty of drive - Akaroa, Arthur's pass, Mt Cook, Lake Tekapo. Beautiful sights. They drive on the same side as us in Singapore but watch the speed limits and slippery roads during winter.||The bakeries and cafes are a great, the breads, cakes pastries are really wonderful.||Current exchange rate is 1SGD = 1.20 NZD. ||Average price for an espresso is NZ$5-6 so it's affordable for a cuppa. So far noone has beat...

We arrived from Wellington late at about 11pm. The owner's kit was super friendly and waiting for us at his door step and helping us with our luggage. As he was staying the house beside our accommodation. Kit was super lovely and warm. He has help us to warm up the room before we arrived. Hence when we reach there the whole house was super warm. The sky outside the house was super clear and you are able to do some star gazing.||||Kit give us a whole house orientation and what to do and where is what thing. As breakfast was provided, he has also place the breakfast in the fridge so that he don't need to disturb us too early in the morning. Breakfast consists of bread, cereals, apples, orange, eggs, juices, milk and yogurts. Tea and coffee was also available. ||||There is a extra foldable bed in the living room for the 5 person. Kit was so thoughtful and brought a extra heater to place it by the side apart from the aircon heater on the wall. As the weather was super cold over the night that the grass outside the house was frozen. ||||The next day Kit came to find us at 10am to do a farm tour and let us touch, feed and take photo of his lovely alpacas in the farm. They are super pretty and lovely. He even show us how he create the alpacas fur to lovely scaf and sweaters. The price was reasonable and he did not do any hard selling. As he mention that he is just here to pass time rather than for business. ||||He told us the history behind how he purchase the farm and how he get into this business. It was lovely to heard from him. He also introduced to us the stream behind his house and was also so nice of him to let us stay beyond the checkout time to go back to Christchurch airport to get our rental cars.||||It was really lovely to meet kit and to stay in his farm house. Will highly recommend anyone to drop by and stay with him if you are nearby Christchurch and to see him and his lovely alpacas.||||Will miss him and...

We arrived from Wellington late at about 11pm. The owner's kit was super friendly and waiting for us at his door step and helping us with our luggage. As he was staying the house beside our accommodation. Kit was super lovely and warm. He has help us to warm up the room before we arrived. Hence when we reach there the whole house was super warm. The sky outside the house was super clear and you are able to do some star gazing.||||Kit give us a whole house orientation and what to do and where is what thing. As breakfast was provided, he has also place the breakfast in the fridge so that he don't need to disturb us too early in the morning. Breakfast consists of bread, cereals, apples, orange, eggs, juices, milk and yogurts. Tea and coffee was also available. ||||There is a extra foldable bed in the living room for the 5 person. Kit was so thoughtful and brought a extra heater to place it by the side apart from the aircon heater on the wall. As the weather was super cold over the night that the grass outside the house was frozen. ||||The next day Kit came to find us at 10am to do a farm tour and let us touch, feed and take photo of his lovely alpacas in the farm. They are super pretty and lovely. He even show us how he create the alpacas fur to lovely scaf and sweaters. The price was reasonable and he did not do any hard selling. As he mention that he is just here to pass time rather than for business. ||||He told us the history behind how he purchase the farm and how he get into this business. It was lovely to heard from him. He also introduced to us the stream behind his house and was also so nice of him to let us stay beyond the checkout time to go back to Christchurch airport to get our rental cars.||||It was really lovely to meet kit and to stay in his farm house. Will highly recommend anyone to drop by and stay with him if you are nearby Christchurch and to see him and his lovely alpacas.||||Will miss him and...