Your New Zealand Adventure! 2024

Kia’ora! Welcome to New Zealand! Upon arrival in Auckland, make your own way to the hotel. Tonight we will enjoy a welcome dinner (included) in a local restaurant.

After enjoying a cooked breakfast at your hotel, you will be collected for a half day sightseeing. 

Travel through the city center, including Auckland's famous Queen Street, Karangahape Road with its checkered past and eclectic vibe and fashionable Ponsonby. Cross over the Auckland Harbour Bridge, enjoying views of the Hauraki Gulf and city skyline, and visit the Viaduct Harbour and the revitalised Silo Park waterfront precinct. See historic buildings around the University of Auckland before continuing over Grafton Bridge to the Auckland Domain. The Domain is the city's oldest park and, at 75 hectares, one of its largest. Developed around an extinct volcano, it features tropical gardens, duck ponds and public art, and is home to the Auckland War Memorial Museum. After visiting the Domain, the tour continues through the boutique shopping area of Parnell Village.

After eating your final breakfast at Sky City Hotel, you will be ready to depart! 

Hobbiton Movie Set Tour & Lunch Combo

Check in at Shire's Rest, 501 Buckland Road, 15 minutes prior to your tour time.

Join us and experience the real Middle-earth at the Hobbiton Movie Set, where, in the heart of the Waikato region, you can step into the lush pastures of the Shire, as seen in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies.
Fall in love with the Alexander family sheep farm, just as acclaimed director Sir Peter Jackson did, as you journey through the unequivocal beauty of the land, with the mighty Kaimai Ranges towering in the distance.
Your guide will then escort you around the set, showing the intricate detailing, pointing out the most famous locations and explaining how the movie magic was made. You will be fully guided around the 12 acre set, past Hobbit Hole, the Mill and into the world-famous Green Dragon Inn, where you will be presented with a complimentary, exclusive Hobbiton Southfarthing beverage to conclude your own Middle-earth adventure. 

Following your tour, enjoy a Marquee festive feast. 

After finishing your breakfast, you will be collected by your coach captain for a full day of sightseeing. 

Te Puia Guided Tour. Duration: 90 minutes

Te Puia is New Zealand's living Maori cultural centre, situated in the Whakarewarewa Geothermal Valley. Te Puia's 60-hectare site is home to the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute, a live kiwi enclosure, the world-famous Pohutu Geyser, and more than 500 geothermal wonders. With land steeped in ancestral history, and a guiding legacy that stretches back to the 1800s, Te Puia offers unique hospitality and rich cultural heritage.

Enjoy a Te Puia experience, Steambox offers you a taste of the past. Since the earliest settlement within Te Whakarewarewa geothermal valley, people have cooked using the steam and hot water naturally available within the thermally active landscape. Steambox utilises a favourite Nga Wha (steam vent) Puapua, which is located in the geothermal area that is the backdrop to the famous Pohutu Geyser.

You will choose what you want cooked for your lunch before heading off on a special guided tour of Te Puia. This begins with an interactive session learning to weave a flower and a tour of the carving and weaving schools. Heading down into the geothermal valley, to the Kiwi house, mud pools and hot springs, the tour concludes when, after watch your lunch lifted from the Nga Wha.
Enjoy your steam box picnic lunch on the geyser terrace.

Check out from Novotel Rotorua Lakeside 

Upon concluding your breakfast at the hotel, you will depart Rotorua for Lake Taupo.
Near Taupo, we will pass the Huka Falls, where the Waikato River enters a shallow ravine of hard volcanic rock, turning it into a torrent of raging water.

Stop and enjoy a leisure walk alongside the river to the falls. The beautiful Lake Taupo is about the size of Singapore - more of an inland sea really.

Taupō was created nearly two thousand years ago by a volcanic eruption so big it darkened the skies in Europe and China.

Just north of Taupo you'll find New Zealand's most visited attraction, the magnificent Huka Falls, where more than 220,000 litres of water thunder over the cliff face every second.

Located on the edge of Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake, Taupo is a pretty town renowned for its trout fishing, the Huka Falls, and the Wairakei Geothermal Power Station. On a clear day, stunning views across the lake of snow-capped Mounts Tongariro, Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe can be enjoyed and its close proximity to these Mountains in winter makes it a great place to base yourself if skiing.