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A genuine ‘Kiwi Country’ experience awaits you here at Lakewood Lodge - the Adventure Farmstay Specialists!
Come and meet our friendly animals, join a horse trek through beautiful countryside, challenge yourself on our 11 metre climbing wall, kayak along our gentle river and enjoy our delicious home baking! Lakewood Lodge is ideal for School Camps, team building or a weekend getaway for both overseas visitors and New Zealanders.
Here at Lakewood Lodge we offer a warm, caring, family atmosphere with an opportunity to experience farm life and make new friends. We look after your children as though they were our own and take all safety precautions.
Team Building
Lakewood Lodge is a fantastic place for teambuilding. We offer corporate groups and organisations a total escape to a beautiful, creative environment where great ideas are born out of shared experiences, evolving into tangible business results. A glimpse of what is on offer at Lakewood Lodge:
School Camps
Holiday Programmes
We are a camp with a difference! At Lakewood Lodge we promise you a stress free camp. We provide everything for you – the food, the instructors, the activities, even the transport. We do everything for you except put the students to bed!!!!
Farmstays
We have dogs, cats, cows, big woolly sheep and cute little lambs, pigs and piglets, goats, ducks, chickens, rabbits and doves at Lakewood Lodge. You can pat and feed them and get your photo taken with them. They can’t wait to meet you!
English lessons
Lakewood Lodge offers foreign students the perfect surroundings to learn English in a safe beautiful rural setting and enjoy adventure activities and country life.This Country Learning course is designed especially for 9 - 14 year olds with excellent pastoral care. Courses are available from 7 days to 3 months.
Horse trekking
General points of horsemanship will be taught through basic activities and lessons from our friendly and experienced instructors. All safety precautions are undertaken.
Kayaking
Our river is a gentle one suitable for beginning kayakers. Our instructor teaches you all skills necessary to have a great time. The more adventurous can kayak out to the lake - Lake Whangape where you can view the local bird life up close. You may even catch a koi carp on the river.
11 metre high Climbing Wall
When you arrive at Lakewood Lodge one of the first attractions you will see is the 11metre high climbing wall. Climbing is all about your personal achievement and often it is about strength and skill.
Pet animals
There are many friendly animals at Lakewood Lodge. There are 14 horses here, all with great personalities. Two of them are beautiful white and brown miniatures, Jack and Daisy. We are training them to take small children for rides. All our horses are very well looked after and much loved.
Friendly hosts
Jeff (Manager),The Vicars Family, Emma, Robyn, Tatjana (Horse Trekking instructor)
Testimonials
Karyn McInally, Acting Principal - Ruawaro Combined School wrote:
Hi Christine, we had a FANTASTIC and thoroughly ENJOYABLE time at camp. We will certainly be recommending it to other schools. You have a fantastic staff and the children were certainly provided with a great assortment of activities. They are still buzzing about it.
Andre Jay, from Dominion Road School, Mt Roskill wrote:
Hey Jeff, Christine and the rest of the team, Thank you so much for the opportunity to host our bi-annual Year 5 and 6 Camp at Lakewood Lodge. The students here have had the chance to participate in a variety of fantastic events that they would have never done before. You have a well organised and dedicated team that provided our school students with memories that they will never forget.
On behalf of the parents, teachers, management and students of Dominion Road School, We thank you for everything!! Again thank you! December 2006
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