Millbrook Resort

Odd dates, even dates, one valley.

Millbrook sits in the Wakatipu Basin on the south-western edge of Arrowtown, the old gold-mining town twenty minutes from Queenstown’s airport. It has two 18-hole courses, and they take visitors on alternate days: the Coronet on even dates of the month, the Remarkables on odd ones. That one detail shapes your trip more than anything else here. The resort is also a long-time host of the New Zealand Open, and in February 2027 it stages all four rounds on its own, so the layouts you book are the ones the professionals see, framed by schist hills and the jagged ridge of The Remarkables.

Millbrook Resort green fees and tee times.

Book through the Millbrook golf shop on +64 3 441 7010 or golf.bookings@millbrook.co.nz. Because the courses rotate by date, choose your day first: an even date gives you the Coronet, an odd date the Remarkables, although the resort may swap the rotation for tournaments. Groups larger than eight pay a 50% deposit, and there are no cancellations within 72 hours of the tee time. In busy periods you may be paired with other players. Resort guests pay the lower in-house rate, which also includes a trundler and golf shoes. A replay rate applies within seven days of a full-price round in peak and shoulder season. Millbrook publishes no handicap limit; the dress code asks for a golf shirt with tailored trousers, shorts or a skirt, and soft spikes only.

The courses at Millbrook Resort.

Remarkables (Remarkables and Arrow nines)

Sir Bob Charles’s original holes from 1992, threaded through the lower resort grounds with water and old trees in play. It is the gentler and cheaper of the two, and the only one where you can walk: hire a trundler or electric trundler, or pay NZ$40 a player for a cart. Played on odd-numbered dates. Nine-hole rounds are sold from 3.40pm.

Coronet

Greg Turner and Scott Macpherson’s course, its first nine from around 2010 and the second from 2021, on the higher and more open ground at the back of the resort. Carts are compulsory and included in the green fee, and whoever drives must hold a full or restricted driving licence. Played on even-numbered dates, and generally the course most visitors come for.

The round, in perspective.

The original course was laid out by Sir Bob Charles, the left-hander who won the 1963 Open Championship, and opened in 1992. Greg Turner and Scott Macpherson added the Coronet nine around 2010, then a fourth nine on higher ground that members first played in 2021. That turned a 27-hole resort into two full courses. The Remarkables 18 combines the Remarkables and Arrow nines from the Charles era, with ponds, mature trees and the resort lodges close by; Turner and Macpherson have reworked some Arrow holes, including the horseshoe-shaped 7th. The Coronet is entirely their work, with the new nine slotted in as holes six to 14, climbing onto rolling ground with longer views across the basin. Planet Golf’s reviewer rates the Coronet holes most highly for their angled greens and bunkering, and singles out the uphill par-three 2nd on the Charles holes.

Know before you go.

Course rotation

Coronet on even dates, Remarkables on odd dates

Carts

Compulsory and included on the Coronet; NZ$40 per player on the Remarkables

Cart drivers

Full or restricted driving licence required

Nine holes

From 3.40pm only

Cancellation

None within 72 hours

Shoes

Soft spikes only

Make the trip work.

The rotation is the first thing to plan around. If you want both courses, stay at least two nights so you cover an odd and an even date, and use the visitor replay rate on the second day if you return to the same course. Prices are in New Zealand dollars and include GST. The two courses are aerated before peak season (Coronet 21–27 September 2026, Remarkables 28 September to 4 October) and lightly cored again in mid-December, when the lower rate applies. Both courses close from 19 February to 2 March 2027 for the New Zealand Open, which is played from 25 to 28 February. Millhouse, the restaurant in the old mill building by the pond, and Kobe Cuisine, a Japanese restaurant, are on site.

Queenstown Airport (ZQN) has direct flights from Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and the east coast of Australia. Millbrook is about 20 kilometres from central Queenstown on the Arrowtown side of the basin, roughly 20 minutes from the airport by car, and a couple of kilometres from Arrowtown’s main street. A hire car makes it easy to add the other basin courses.

Where it is.

Nearby: 1. Jack’s Point (15 km)

Somewhere to settle in.

Millbrook has its own accommodation, more than 160 rooms across several tiers from hotel-style rooms to villas, with the spa and restaurants within walking distance; staying on site gets you the in-house green fee and free trundler and shoe hire. Arrowtown itself has cottages and small lodges a short walk or ride away, and its Buckingham Street of restored miners’ buildings is the place for dinner. Queenstown, twenty minutes away, has the widest choice of hotels if you want the lakefront and nightlife.

Make a trip of it.

Jack’s Point, on the shore of Lake Wakatipu below The Remarkables, is the obvious second stop and has its own guide on this site. Arrowtown Golf Club, a short, tight members’ course among schist outcrops, takes visitors, and Queenstown Golf Club at Kelvin Heights sits on a peninsula in the lake. Away from golf, walk the Arrow River trail to the restored Chinese miners’ settlement on the edge of Arrowtown, or drive the Gibbston Valley wine road towards Cromwell.

Find your season.

Peak season runs from late October to early May, when the days are long and dry and the resort charges its top rate. From June to September the Wakatipu Basin is a ski destination, frosts are common, and Millbrook sells a single winter rate on a combination of nines rather than both full courses. Late October, after spring coring, and March to April are the calmer months to visit.