If you feel like a walk, Waimak Falls hut in Arthur's Pass is one of my favorites. It's a bit of a walk to get there though.
Barker Hut, up the other side is also lovely.
Apart from the distance they're both pretty easy to get to.
Alternatively you could head over to the West Coast, Welcome Flat Hut is pretty stunning, and their are natural hot pools which are pretty amazing.
The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson. It's basically heist movie Children of Time is a great SciFi story
+1 for Cradle, I enjoyed it so much more than I thought I was going to
When the weather is on, it's absolutely stunning over there. Rugged coastlines, disappear into mountains and glaciers, and you can see Aoraki from almost everywhere.
It downloads the visible area up to a higher zoom level, which should let you zoom/pan around a bit more when you're offline
Some features it supports:
The source code is available here: https://github.com/fallaciousreasoning/topo
Ah yeah, I actually used to used that one too! Mapy.cz is pretty good too, but their topo maps aren't quite as good as the LINZ ones.
Make sure you look at the area you're going to be in (in https://topos.nz) before trying to use it offline, or everything will be really low res.
Basically, it just caches anything you've looked at, and nothing else :)
If you try and zoom in further than it has cached data, it'll use a lower res version, if it has one.
Glad to hear they're going to open - Whakapapa in particular has some great skiing - that said, it's kind of crazy they managed to run out of money, they're always packed, and the whole North Island skis there.
The Grand Traverse of the Remarkables in New Zealand
Queenstown, New Zealand
There's heaps in Tasmania, pretty accessible grades too!