19-Day Ultimate New Zealand View Basket

Experience a world of natural wonders

Indulge and revitalise on this 19-Day Great Experiences New Zealand tour, filled with highlights and many exciting optional extras, too many to list here. 

Great Experiences has over 25 years’ experience in premium group travel and combines the best of New Zealand’s natural wonders and sightseeing attractions at unbeatable value for money.

This luxury coach tour, just one of a great collection, is designed with the mature traveller in mind and includes more highlights and sightseeing options than any other comparable New Zealand coach tour on the market, making it an unforgettable experience. New Zealand has often been described as “a World in One” and Great Experiences ensures that you get to see the best of it!

From Auckland, you’ll travel throughout New Zealand all the way to Christchurch with everything in between – highlights include a visit to the award-winning Kauri Museum at Matakohe, the historic Maungnumu Mission House, Ninety Mile Beach and the famous Waitomo Caves...

Visit Taurangawaiwai - home of the Maori King, take a Dolphin Rock Cruise, experience Rotorua - New Zealand’s thermal wonderland and centre of Maoridom, visit the Woollen Mill and watch the Sheep Dog Trials, the award winning Tirohana Estate for lunch and wine tasting…

Take one of the most beautiful ferry rides in the world across Cook Strait through picturesque Queen Charlotte Sound, see the incredible Fox Glacier, Travel through the Mt Aspiring National Park, and on to the tourist town of Queenstown - which offers over 400 activity options, so the only difficulty you will face is what to choose and where to go!

View Mitre Peak and the abundant wildlife and waterfalls while cruising out to the Tasman Sea, go on a Speights Heritage Brewery Tour, travel out to the Otago Peninsula and visit two very different attractions - Larnach Castle and Natures Wonders, a precious wildlife habitat. Visit The Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre, Lake Tekapo, the Church of the Good Shepherd and the International Antarctic Centre in Christchurch.

Your final evening will see you enjoying “The Chronicles of Uitara – Lost in our Own Land”, a unique adventure, farewell dinner and show at New Zealand’s largest open air theatre.

Itinerary

• DAY 1: ARRIVE AUCKLAND
  
• DAY 2: AUCKLAND / HOKIANGA
  
• DAY 3: HOKIANGA / PAIHIA (BAY OF ISLANDS)
  
• DAY 4: PAIHIA/AUCKLAND
  
• DAY 5: AUCKLAND / WAITOMO / ROTORUA
  
• DAY 6: ROTORUA
  
• DAY 7: ROTORUA / TAUPO / NAPIER / MASTERTON
  
• DAY 8: MASTERTON / WELLINGTON
  
• DAY 9: WELLINGTON / PICTON / CHRISTCHURCH
  
• DAY 10: CHRISTCHURCH / FOX
  
• DAY 11: FOX / WANAKA
  
• DAY 12: WANAKA / QUEENSTOWN
  
• DAY 13: QUEENSTOWN / MILFORD / TE ANAU
  
• DAY 14: TE ANAU / DUNEDIN
  
• DAY 15: DUNEDIN / MT COOK
  
• DAY 16: MT COOK
  
• DAY 17: MT COOK / CHRISTCHURCH
  
• DAY 18: CHRISTCHURCH
  
• DAY 19: CHRISTCHURCH / HOME PORT