Great Road Trip, Horrible Hotel

A Southland–Otago Road trip from Lumsden → Kingston → Queenstown → Fairlight, packed with roadside stops, local info, and some of the best views of Lake Wakatipu and the Devil’s Staircase you’ll ever see. But the day takes a turn when a night at La Quinta, Remarkables Park becomes a disaster — loud wind noise, zero sleep, and a 5 AM escape back to Kingston. We explore the Kingston Flyer, old rail carriages, a lakeside reserve, ducks on the beach, and finish at Fairlight, where the Flyer line ends. Raw, honest, Kiwi travel — the good, the bad, and the beautiful. 0:00 – Intro: heading somewhere cold 0:39 – Lumsden → Queenstown & Te Anau turnoff 1:44 – Lake Wakatipu perfectly still 2:45 – Scenic 360 between Kingston & Queenstown 3:34 – Devil’s Staircase lookout (–2°C wind chill) 5:14 – The hotel disaster at La Quinta 6:24 – Back in Kingston at daybreak 7:36 – Exploring the Kingston Flyer yard 8:22 – Old signals, carriages, coal wagons 9:14 – Reserve, beach, ducks 10:53 – More Kingston Flyer shots 12:12 – Plans for a future camping video 13:11 – Fairlight: end of the Kingston Flyer line #queenstown #kingston #kingstonflyer #lakewakatipu #devilsstaircase #southlandnz #otagonz #newzealandtravel #nzvlogger #roadtripnz #travelvlog #southislandnz #lumsden #fairlight #covertcampingchronicles