Built amid a hillside vineyard, Takatu Lodge features seamless indoor-outdoor living entire walls slide away, and meals can be enjoyed by the patio fire. Each of the four guest rooms has a spacious terrace and a two-person bathtub with views of the mountains or the bay. —Amanda Jones

From $520, 518 Whitmore Rd., 64/(0) 9-423-0299, takatulodge.co.nz. Photo courtesy of Takatu Lodge. This appeared in the January/February 2011 issue.