The property provides the setting. We help create the stay.
Lodge & Retreat Partners works with owners, operators, property managers and travel professionals to deliver complete private hospitality across premium lodges, retreats, villas and private residences.
Through one trusted point of contact, we coordinate arrival preparation, concierge, private dining, adventure catering, snow and mountain sports catering, wellness and recovery.
Arrival, concierge, guest care
Chefs, dining, adventure catering
Wellness, recovery, quiet
One trusted hospitality partner coordinating every essential element of an extraordinary stay.
Our ethos is Good Food Is Personal
We cater to every guest — dietary needs, allergies, cultural preferences, performance nutrition, family favourites, or simply the best comfort food you’ve ever had. Beautifully sourced, thoughtfully made.
Good Food Is Personal
Menus shaped around your guests — dietary, cultural, comforting or performance-driven.
Local & Seasonal
The freshest seasonal produce from New Zealand growers and artisans.
Plastic-Free
Low-waste hospitality, plastic-free wherever possible.
Honouring the Earth
We tread lightly, honouring the land that makes every stay possible.
Faye Joy
26 years across professional cooking, luxury hospitality and functional nutrition — with 800+ hours of advanced yoga, somatic and recovery training.
Faye trained as a professional chef in New Zealand before spending 16 years aboard luxury superyachts — cooking for international families, athletes and wellness-driven travellers.
As Performance Chef for the America's Cup (American Magic), she deepened her expertise in functional nutrition, sleep, recovery and nervous system regulation.
Alongside her culinary career, Faye has completed 800+ hours of advanced yoga, somatic and recovery training — including trauma-informed yoga, functional anatomy, somatics, meditation, breathwork, Thai Yoga Massage and yoga-therapy foundations across the Himalayas, Costa Rica and New Zealand. She has owned two Yin Yoga centres focused on nervous system health and accessible recovery.
Her approach is shaped by global experience, professional precision and a deep commitment to helping guests feel nourished, grounded and cared for.