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terrific breakfast. This all adds up to make Collyer House a comfortable, upmarket
choice. Follow the signs off SH6 for 12km down Jackson Bay Rd.
Eating & Drinking
Okoto Espresso
CAFE $
(Haast Village; snacks $2-10)
Look out for the rusty hut being towed by the orange
Landrover. Where you find it you'll encounter excellent coffee, smoothies and whitebait
fritters.
Haast Foodcentre
SUPERMARKET $
(Pauareka Rd)
This small supermarket stocks sufficient provisions for meal-making, along
with fried takeaways and coffee.
Hard Antler
PUB $$$
(Marks Rd, Haast Village; dinner $20-30; dining 11am-9pm)
This display of deer antlers is
enough to give you the horn. So is the general ambience of this big, bold pub. Plain,
meaty food on offer.
Information
Jackson Bay Rd; 9am
‑
6pm Nov-Mar, to 4.30pm Apr-Oct)
has town and backcountry informa-
tion and has a landline for DIY accommodation and activity bookings. The all-too-brief
Haast landscape film
Edge of Wilderness
(adult/child $3/free) screens in the theatrette.
General regional information and visitor services listings can be found on the online
Getting There & Away
on their daily runs between the West Coast and Queenstown.
Naked Bus
(
www.nakedbus.com
)
also passes through three times a week.
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