Milford Sound Lodge & Pio Pio Cafe

Amazing experience. It is a stop you must include in your trip while in Queenstown. Staff is very welcoming and lovely. The whole experience is incredible with beautiful views over the river while relaxing music is playing while you leave your troubles away in hot bubbly water. They include a snack to your experience which you can choose from a menu.

Very expensive and the Cafe has a very limited menu, I could not eat there the second night. The positives are, great room nice and cozy with stunning Views. Staff were keen to help also.

Fantastic place to stay when visiting Milford Sound! Superb large family rooms with a awesome view! Great way of breaking up your trip, and being able to do a early morning cruise (the best time). The staff were great!:)

AMAZING ALLROUND! STAFF WERE BRILLIANT AS ARE THE FACILITIES. OH AND DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND ORDER THEIR FIORDLAND VENISON. ITS OUT OF THIS WORLD

Amazing!
Must stay in the river view chalets at least a couple of nights.
The view was just breathtaking.
Photos dont do justice.
We will go back there for sure.
Food was excellent.room service was also very good.

Both the café / restaurant and the chalets are unbelievably amazing. The staff seemed like a tight, happy team. The sandflies and mozzies at Milford Sound are always a bit of a buzzkill (pun intended?) but this place is doing the most it can to make the experience as good as it gets.

Amazing! Great views, very nice spacious room, great location. We got room service from the Pio Pio restaurant and it is a must try! Up there with some of the best food we've had at a restaurant in a long time. Definitely try the soup of the day!

After a visit to Milford Sound and giving up on a park we luckily found this place where we had a lovley lunch. Free parking as well.

Great place to stay if wanting to overnight before or after your Milford Sound Cruise or Milford Track walk in your campervan. They have a shuttle that will take you to the cruise terminal and back again to save moving your van and paying for parking.

Communal facilities were very good with plenty of gas stoves, washing up area, and eating lounging area. The shower/toilet spaces were nice and big and great water pressure. Each parking space had its own fresh water tap and electical shore power. Zero cell reception but thats for the whole area. You can buy internet through reception but as its by satellite dish the bandwidth isnt great. Fine for emails. Overall a great experience.

Great place to stay when visiting Milford Sounds. Warm and cozy room/bed. Very considerate rooms with layout, furniture etc.
Restaurant is on site and delicious.
PS. Love the eco goal and all the reusable product.

Such a great place to stay. We spend 1 night here after our 3 day walking track and we not regret it at all. The staff is absolutely amazing.very friendly and welcoming. The food was delicious. This fries was perfect. We used the shuttle in the morning. We would be back for sure.

Absolutely stunning place would recommend staying out there, love the sustainability theme throughout the lodge

Amazing location, excellent facilities, and friendly staff! Only reason for the 4 stars instead of 5 was that they strangely clean the toilets and shower at 7am, which is when a lot of people are trying to take showers to head off for cruises! We had to queue for about 25 minutes which had us rushing slightly to get to our cruise on time!

I am so sick of seeing waterfalls.

This was a great place to stay before doing the cruise, the views of the waterfalls in the mountains, from the room, was fantastic. The food at the restaurant was great and the service of the people was very good.there was limited Wi-Fi or add and telephone there.
It was a bit pricey but the price is worth it considering the option of travelling from the nearest town or staying in the campervan

Really amazing location, and the restaurant has a great selection of food. The rooms are really comfortable and quiet. The restaurant also caters to dietary requirements very well. I recommend this in particular to couples having a romantic getaway!

This place has a special feeling, can not get any cell connection and feels like you are in the wild. Campervan sites have their own area with trees surrounding so gives you good private feel. Beware of sandflies and mosquitoes!

Clean and hot shower, big kitchen and nice dinning room. The guy at the reception was friendly and helpful for extra information. A lot of sandflies. But they are part of Milford Sound

Wow. We were rained in for four days and couldn't leave. Crazy/amazing/perfect place to be trapped. Staff were mostly young international peeps enjoying life and very cool and caring - went out of their way to help keep my kids happy. Probably my personal favourite holiday experience. Ever.

Pio Pio Cafe is a really good Cafe to go to. Their coffee was excellent and their food was just as good especially their pulled pork sandwich. If you are travelling to Milford sound using your own transportation, I recommend this place for lunch.

Being one of the very few places one can stay in Milford Sound, it would be easy for them to take advantage of the situation. Instead, they offer comfy bedding (in dorm rooms) or modern accommodation in their lodges. Onsite facilities are well maintained and the cafe and restaurant had some of the best food and coffee we experienced during our stay in New Zealand.

All things considered, they offer very good value for money. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend.