15-day New Zealand White Christmas Tour View Basket

Christmas in New Zealand is beautifully wrapped up from north to south

Welcome aboard Great Experiences New Zealand White Christmas Tour! This 15-day luxury coach tour can be described as a combination of wonderful, thrilling, exciting and fascinating. No doubt about it, this is how to end the year in style. Share it with family and friends, make new friends along the way and enjoy an extraordinary range of places, cultural experiences, wildlife encounters, scenic attractions, exciting activities and happy celebrations!

Great Experiences New Zealand coach tours include more highlights and sightseeing inclusions than any other comparable New Zealand coach tour on the market.

Features include:

• 2 nights in Rotorua, Mt Cook & Queenstown
  
• Average 4 star quality hotels
  
• Includes 33 meals in base tour
• Over 50 tour highlights – more than any comparable tour

Highlights include:

The White Christmas 15-day tour will take you from Auckland, the world’s largest Polynesian city, to Waitomo Caves with their breathtaking stalactites and stalagmites, Rotorua, New Zealand’s geothermal wonderland. Explore the Maori culture firsthand at Whakarewarewa Maori Village, tour a working sheep station in Hawkes Bay, enjoy a real Devonshire Tea on your way to Wellington before boarding the Interislander Ferry. Wine-tasting and a visit to a Seal Colony are the highlights before a tour exclusive to Great Experiences at the International Antarctic Centre. Take in some stunning mountain scenery and a festive Christmas Eve buffet meal at the Alpine Restaurant at Mt Cook. The tallest peak in New Zealand will provide your view on Christmas morning. Mt Cook is a magnificent snow-capped mountain - the perfect backdrop for scenic walks and activities.

Your tour will take you as far south as Dunedin, the Edinburgh of the south, before taking you across to Te Anau and then up to the Milford Sound. Enjoy the sightseeing all the way to Queenstown, where over 400 optional activities including helicopter flights, 4-wheel drive tours, a vintage steamship cruise, wine-tasting, garden, fishing and walking tours leave you spoilt for choice.

The journey from Wanaka, your next stop to the Fox Glacier offers a spectacular landscape of mountains, wetlands, rivers, rainforests and waterfalls.

One of the greatest rail journeys in the world, the Tranz Alpine Express, will take you through the Southern Alps. Celebrate the New Year in Christchurch and the many festivities in Cathedral Square, just two blocks from your hotel.

Great Experiences New Zealand is a family business and is passionate about showing people the very best of New Zealand. This experienced coach tour company believes in showing more and providing the means for you to do more and experience more from the freedom of the open road!

Itinerary

• Day 1: ARRIVE AUCKLAND
  
• Day 2: AUCKLAND/WAITOMO/ROTORUA
  
• Day 3: ROTORUA
  
• Day 4: ROTORUA/TAUPO/NAPIER/MASTERTON
  
• Day 5: MASTERTON/WELLINGTON
  
• Day 6: WELLINGTON/PICTON/CHRISTCHURCH
  
• Day 7: CHRISTCHURCH/MT COOK
  
• Day 8: AORAKI MT COOK
  
• Day 9: MT COOK/DUNEDIN
  
• Day 10: DUNEDIN/TE ANAU
  
• Day 11: TE ANAU/MILFORD/QUEENSTOWN
  
• Day 12: QUEENSTOWN
  
• Day 13: QUEENSTOWN/WANAKA/FOX
  
• Day 14: FOX/HOKITIKA/CHRISTCHURCH
• Day 15: DEPART CHRISTCHURCH