Maruia River Retreat

Your one-night Luxury Food and Nature Stay at Maruia River Retreat offers a luxurious and rejuvenating experience, combining gourmet 3-coiurse dinner and continental breakfast and relaxing wellness activities such as private forest bathing with immersion in a stunning 500-acre natural environment—a perfect prize for an arts festival audience seeking creative inspiration and restoration. Valued at $1850 for two persons.

Maruia River Retreat is a 5-star, luxury nature and wellness resort located within a 500-acre private native beech forest estate, just 2 hours from Nelson. Situated in the tranquil Maruia Valley, the retreat offers a "gentle reset" for guests, focusing on a relaxed, unhurried experience that reconnects them with nature.