All this week, HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen takes us on a tour of New Zealand’s hotel scene.

About a year or so ago, in a Cubicle Dreamin’ fantasy piece, we told you about one of our all-time dream hotels, The Farm at Cape Kidnappers in the famous wine-making region of Hawkes Bay on New Zealand’s North Island.

Well, in one of those amazing twists of fate, we actually got to visit the gourmet golf resort over the holidays this year, and here are a couple of our photos and impressions of the resort, which we can only describe as world-class.

]]> EricRosen 2011-01-14T09:31:07-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/9/4/142357/4879 <![CDATA[<p><p> <i>Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? <a href="tips@hotelchatter.com">Send the story our way</a>.<p> In this episode, Hotel Maven <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/user/eric rosen/stories">Eric Rosen</a> travels to the end of the earth for a luxury stay. Enjoy.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/capekidnappers.jpg" class="top"><p> Summer has not even ended yet, EricRosen 2009-09-04T17:18:52-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/