Bluestone Estate
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Tāwharanui Peninsula · Matakana Coast · one hour north of Auckland

Luxury private residences on the Matakana Coast.

Bluestone Estate is a collection of luxury private residences on the Tāwharanui Peninsula, on the Matakana Coast, one hour north of Auckland, New Zealand. Set between rolling rural hills and the waters off the East Coast, Bluestone spans three neighbouring properties, Bluestone Main Estate, Bluestone Encampment and Bluestone Ridge, and seven residences that can be rented individually or combined: from a safari tent under the trees, to an intimate coastal hideaway for two, to Sole Occupancy of all three properties for forty guests, alongside the Cookhouse, our private dining room at the Farmhouse. Qualmark Gold accredited, Bluestone Estate hosts couples, families, and private groups who want the ease of true luxury with their feet in the grass or the sand: barefoot luxury, beautifully hosted, always.

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Seven residences across three neighbouring properties.

The Main House at Bluestone Estate from the lawn: the infinity pool, the pool house, beanbags, and the verandah.The Main House living room at Bluestone Estate, with the floor-to-ceiling South Island bluestone fireplace.

Bluestone Main Estate

The Main House

Five ensuite bedrooms, a bluestone fireplace, and the infinity pool over the estuary. The house the estate is named for.

Sleeps 12 · 5 bedrooms · 5 bathrooms and a WC

From NZD 10,000 a night · 2 nights minimum

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The Boat House at Bluestone Estate from the drive: grey weatherboards, the barn doors slid open to the living room, potted conifers either side, and the deck and hedge beyond.Inside the Boat House at Bluestone Estate: white-panelled walls, the pot-belly stove, a leather armchair, the long timber table with stools, and the doors open to rolling farmland.

Bluestone Main Estate

The Boat House

A loft bedroom over the water, a second in the Shepherd's Hut, and a cedar hot tub for the evenings.

Sleeps 4 · 2 bedrooms · 1 bathroom

From NZD 790 a night · 2 nights minimum

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The Studio at Bluestone Estate: dark weatherboards, a sliding door onto the timber deck, two Adirondack chairs, and a freestanding bath outdoors among the flax and native planting.The Studio at Bluestone Estate: the queen bed with white linen against its oak wall panel, seascape paintings, linen curtains at the sliding door, and a small café table by the shuttered window.

Bluestone Main Estate

The Studio

One room for two with its own kitchen, a bath on the deck, and the bush all around. The intimate coastal hideaway.

Sleeps 2 · 1 bedroom · 1 bathroom

From NZD 250 a night · 2 nights minimum

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The Cabins at Bluestone Encampment at dusk: the timber deck between the two cedar pods, the outdoor kitchen bench, and the bath in the open bathroom, with the estuary beyond.Inside the living pod of the Cabins at Bluestone Encampment: the wood burner lit, a linen sofa, and floor-to-ceiling windows over the lawn to the estuary at sunset.

Bluestone Encampment

The Cabins

Two cedar pods under the trees: one for living, one for sleeping. An indoor fire and an outdoor one.

Sleeps 4 · 2 bedrooms · 1 bathroom

From NZD 550 a night · 2 nights minimum

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The deck of Safari Tent 1 at Bluestone Encampment: the outdoor bath under the canvas awning, timber balustrade, and the view through the trees to the estuary.Inside Safari Tent 1 at Bluestone Encampment: the queen bed with white linen under the canvas, a timber floor, and the door open to the bush.

Bluestone Encampment

Safari Tent 1

Canvas under the trees, a queen bed, a set of bunks, and an outdoor bath under the sky.

Sleeps 4 · Open plan · 1 bathroom

From NZD 300 a night · 2 nights minimum

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Safari Tent 2 at Bluestone Encampment from the path: the canvas tent on its timber platform among kānuka and cabbage trees, the door open, and the deck beyond.Inside Safari Tent 2 at Bluestone Encampment: a grey sofa with cushions, timber stools, lamps, and the canvas front tied open to the deck, the table, and the estuary through the trees.

Bluestone Encampment

Safari Tent 2

Canvas under the trees, a queen and a set of bunks, your own kitchenette.

Sleeps 4 · Open plan · 1 bathroom

From NZD 290 a night · 2 nights minimum

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The Farmhouse pool deck at Bluestone Ridge on a clear day: white umbrellas, loungers, hydrangeas in a stone pot, and the infinity pool edge against the Hauraki Gulf and Kawau Island.The Farmhouse living room at Bluestone Ridge: tan leather sofa with striped cushions, a woven seagrass coffee table, botanical prints, and palms and the sea through the windows.

Bluestone Ridge

The Farmhouse

A reimagined New Zealand homestead on fifteen acres above the Hauraki Gulf, with the Cookhouse and its oak table for eighteen.

Sleeps 10 · 5 bedrooms · 4 bathrooms

From NZD 2,600 a night · 2 nights minimum

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The privacy difference

Lodge-level service. Estate-level privacy.

  1. Entirely Yours

    Every residence is yours alone, and a whole property can be too. You will never share a dining room, a pool deck, or a lawn with strangers, because there are no other guests to share them with.

  2. At Your Rhythm

    The estate runs on your clock. No seatings, no set breakfast hours, no host waiting for everyone to gather. Swim at midnight. Breakfast at eleven. The day takes the shape you give it.

  3. Room to Run

    Childhood at full volume. Kids run barefoot across the paddocks, cannonball into the pool, and fall asleep mid-sentence at the table, and there is nobody to disturb. Grandparents actually relax.

  4. Present, Never Hovering

    Service is a choice, never a condition. Self-catered, provisioned, tended daily, or fully curated with private chefs and concierge: choose your measure for every stay. Your hosts appear when wanted and vanish when not.

  5. Your Table, Your Chef

    Private dining, never a dining room. A private chef cooks for your party alone, at the Cookhouse, the long table, or the outdoor fire, with a menu built around your people and the coast's growers and fishers.

  6. Discretion as Standard

    Nobody to see you here. No lobby, no check-in desk, no other guests. Total discretion, one hour from Auckland's international gateway, arrival by road or helicopter.

  7. Private, Not Remote

    Seclusion without the sacrifice. Complete seclusion on the Tāwharanui Peninsula, with the vineyards, beaches, golf links, and restaurants of the Matakana Coast minutes away, and Auckland an hour.

The Cookhouse at Bluestone Ridge: the recycled oak table set for dinner with hydrangeas and olive branches, rattan pendants above, and the doors open to the Hauraki Gulf.

Signature Experiences

The coast, arranged around you.

Three from the collection we love this season.

A green on the North Course at Te Arai Links, forty minutes from Bluestone Estate, with a wave breaking on the beach behind it and the Hen and Chicken Islands across the water.

Golf at Te Arai Links

Forty minutes by road, ten by helicopter. Tee times and coaching arranged.

Sculptureum at Bluestone Estate. Photograph to come.

Sculptureum

Six galleries, three sculpture gardens, and a vineyard in Matakana, with lunch at Rothko.

Matakana Village Farmers Market on a spring Saturday: cherry blossom in the foreground, the red market sign, and people gathered under the stalls, seven minutes from Bluestone Estate.

The Saturday market

Matakana Village Farmers Market, seven minutes away. Go early.

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Terra and Tide guide with guests at a Matakana Coast vineyard

Bespoke tours

The coast, privately guided, with Terra & Tide.

Our exclusive touring partner builds a private day around your party: vineyards and cellar doors, makers and the Saturday market, parks and beaches, with a local guide who collects you at the door and handles everything in between.

Bespoke Tours with Terra & Tide
From the moment you arrive, the location feels special. Discreet and beautifully private, the property offers outstanding elevated views that make you feel as though you truly own the landscape. It's peaceful, secluded and quietly impressive: a place that invites you to slow down from the chaos of the outside world.
Niel Fox, Based On a True Story

Qualmark Gold

Bluestone Estate holds Qualmark Gold, the highest accreditation of the official quality mark of New Zealand tourism. Gold is not awarded for luxury alone: it requires independently assessed excellence across guest experience, health and safety, environmental responsibility, cultural respect, and business practice, reviewed and re-earned every year.

What Qualmark Gold means here
The white-sand beach at Tāwharanui Regional Park, with pōhutukawa on the headland and families walking to the water.

The Matakana Coast

Private, not remote.

Vineyards, farmers' markets, regional parks, white-sand beaches and island views, one hour from Auckland CBD. Matakana Village seven minutes. Te Arai Links forty.

Read about the peninsula

This month on the estate: the kitchen garden is in, the pool is at temperature, and the market has the first asparagus. Placeholder seasonal line.