Katy Perry pops in to say 'hi'

Pop star Katy Perry rocked out in Brisbane but kept a low profile in Queenstown. Photo / Getty Images

Except for a lucky few, Queenstowners hoping to hear Katy Perry roar during her stay at the resort have had to make do with a social media "hi" instead.

The pop superstar, who has concerts in Auckland tonight and tomorrow as part of her Prismatic World Tour, has spent the past two days unwinding in the resort following her last concert in Brisbane on Monday.

On Wednesday night the 30-year-old and her entourage dined at Arrowtown restaurant Saffron, before visiting the adjacent Blue Door bar.

Saffron and Blue Door co-owner Melanie Hill would not comment, but a Queenstown woman told the Otago Daily Times she unwittingly had a chat with Perry and her mother at the bar. The woman said she had no idea who the singer was until afterwards.

"They were just really nice, ordinary people talking about where they'd been and how lovely New Zealand was."

They told her they had visited Wanaka that day, travelling by helicopter.

A Queenstown man said he saw Perry at the Blue Door with a group of about a dozen people before they were whisked away before midnight in waiting vehicles, avoiding paparazzi waiting in Buckingham St, the town's main thoroughfare.

Perry was wearing a black top, black lycra pants, a baseball cap and trainers, he said.

Earlier that evening, Perry tweeted "hi" and posted a picture of herself on Instagram next to a Wanaka-based Alpine Helicopters chopper landed by a lake.

An Alpine Helicopters employee said staff had been instructed not to comment.

Perry is understood to be staying at The Lodge at The Hills, Sir Michael Hill's private golf course - costing between $20,000 and $30,000 a night, depending on the number of guests.

Perry was due to fly out of Queenstown today on a private jet bound for Auckland.