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SATURDAY MAY 20

LAP OF LUXURY

High-end hideaways ahoy

Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.25pm

Streaming: TVNZ+

This is the third season of the aspirational travel series about places where you might stay if you won Lotto. The first episode visits Flockhill Lodge, which sits on a working sheep station of 14,500ha in the Craigieburn Valley; Te Mata House, which leverages its stellar winemaking brand to offer a “luxury family- and animal-friendly experience” in Hawke’s Bay; and Pipinui Point, which showcases a side of Porirua you probably never knew existed. Later, we’re taken to hideaways in Wanaka, Cromwell, Stewart Island and Waiheke. Although it’s billed as a trans-Tasman travelogue, there’s

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