Danny Luke remembers the thrill of sitting in a luge cart being towed up Queenstown Hill behind his grandfather’s car. It was ...

If you decide to ride Skyline Queenstown's luge, tickets – which include round-trip gondola rides and five luge rides – cost NZ$55 ($37) for adults and NZ$45 ($30) for kids. Two luge tracks ...

but the gondola cables and luge tracks can get in the way of photos. After you've had your fun here, consider making the short hike up nearby Queenstown Hill for an even better lookout point.

It’s all a long way from the Queenstown Thomas arrived at in 1969, where the gondola was a tiny operation and its famous luge wasn’t even thought of. A lot of the subsequent growth has been due to ...