Your Hosts
Our staff are proud to make visiting Grasmere Lodge a special experience for guests. We want you to feel at home and well looked after, and we’ll do all we can to make sure that happens. The team that works with us are crucial to that aim, and sincerely want to ensure you enjoy your time with us.
We believe the more time you can spend getting to know us in the high country, the more you will appreciate the unique setting and heritage that make stations like Grasmere part of the classic New Zealand psyche.
Manager Tom Butler owns Grasmere Lodge with his Kiwi business partner Jamie Peters. Tom joined as general go-fer the day after opening, and has been with the Lodge since, with time off over the years to travel and to train. After learning the tricks of the trade by sharing an office with him for five years, Tom purchased Grasmere Lodge from Oliver Newbegin in 2005.
Oli bought Grasmere Station in 1988, and owned the adjoining Cora Lynn Station from 1981 to 1994. After more than 30 years in the travel industry, he and his wife Vicki opened the lodge in January 1995 in order to share with others a place they love.
Aimee McIntyre and Liz Kyd are in charge of administration, reservations, guest arrangements and all loose ends.
Derek Allomes and Ben Luckx are your chefs. In the mornings Aimee or Liz will be welcoming you to breakfast and helping with any arrangements for the day.
Tracey Rhodes, looks after all housekeeping requirements.
Kiri Bond keeps the grounds looking great, while our resident nature guide is Graeme Williams
Assisting on site with other activities are resident beauty therapist Joanna Scowen, who runs the Mountain Spa , and Heather Harrington, our horse-riding guide. Heather and her horses get out of the snow in winter but will be back on site by October.
However, the members of the team most valued by guests are lodge mascots Todd and Lass, our golden retrievers. They are now five years old, and still keen on leading each other astray, so they take turns being off the lead to explore the farm and check on what guests are doing, in case anyone needs some canine company. They are happy to take you for a walk and love having their heads rubbed, especially Toddy.
State Highway 73 · Cass · Canterbury · Private Bag 55009 · Christchurch · New Zealand
Telephone +64 3 318 8407 · Fax +64 3 318 8263 · E-Mail Retreat@Grasmere.co.nz
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