Highlights

• All inclusive
• 9 Days/8 Nights
• Fully escorted modern coach travel
• 4 star accommodations
• Hotel porterage (we’ll handle your luggage for you!)
• 1 cruise included
• Personalized meet and greet

Inclusions

• Accommodation – Auckland – SkyCity Hotel (1 Night), Bay of Islands – Scenic Hotel Bay of Islands (2), Auckland – SkyCity Hotel (1), Rotorua – Pullman Rotorua (City View Room)(2), Masterton – Copthorne Hotel Solway Park (1), Wellington – James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor (1)
• Meals – 8 Cooked Breakfasts; 6 Sumptuous Dinners including 2 Specialty Dinners: Maori Hangi & Concert, Rotorua; Farewell Dinner, Wellington; 1 Shire’s Buffet Lunch: Hobbiton
• Day Tours – Matakohe: Kauri Museum; Bay of Islands: Hole in the Rock Dolphin Cruise, Waitangi Treaty Grounds; Auckland: City Sights Tour, SkyTower; Hobbiton: Movie Set from Lord of the Rings; Rotorua: Skyline Gondola & Luge Ride, Agrodome, Thermal Mud Pools and Geysers, Te Puia Maori Hangi Dinner and Concert; Napier: City Sights Tour; Wellington: City Sights Tour
• Transfers – Airport to Hotel and Hotel to Airport

Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive Auckland

On arrival into Auckland you will be met by your tour representative who will transfer you to your hotel. This evening enjoy a complimentary pre-dinner drink when you meet your Tour Leader and travelling companions for dinner.

Hotel SkyCity Hotel

Dinner Included

Day 2: Auckland – Bay of Islands

Depart Auckland and travel to the Parry Kauri Park to see a magnificent Kauri Tree and learn about its significance. Enjoy a visit and informative talk at the Kauri Museum in Matakohe, then travel via Whangarei to Paihia, situated in the heart of the beautiful Bay of Islands. Enjoy a guided tour of the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, the location of the signing of the treaty between the Maori tribes and the British Government in 1840.

Breakfast & Dinner included

Hotel Scenic Hotel Bay of Islands (2 Nights)

Day 3: Bay of Islands

Today is a free day. Choose from the many optional activities available, including the Cape Reinga coach trip via Ninety Mile Beach, a tour of historic Russell town, a classic sail on a tall ship or a spectacular scenic flight. This evening is also free and you may like to enjoy a relaxing dinner cruise (optional).

Breakfast included

Day 4: Bay of Islands – Auckland

This morning cruise through the beautiful Bay of Islands aboard a luxury catamaran to Cape Brett, where a historic lighthouse keeps watch over Piercy Island, or as it is popularly known, the ‘Hole in the Rock’. Keep an eye out for dolphins and other marine life. Return to Paihia and travel south via Whangarei to Auckland where you will enjoy a city sights tour. This evening is free to explore the many eateries surrounding your hotel.

Hotel SkyCity Hotel

Breakfast included

Day 5: Auckland – Rotorua

Enjoy a leisurely start before visiting Sky Tower, one of New Zealand’s most spectacular attractions. Depart Auckland and travel through the picturesque countryside to Hobbiton for a buffet lunch. This is followed by a guided tour of the Movie Set from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. Your guide will recount details of how this beautiful piece of farmland was transformed into The Shire from Middle Earth.

Hotel Pullman Rotorua (City View Room) (2 Nights)

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 6: Rotorua

Today begins with a gondola ride at Skyline Rotorua where a buffet breakfast and spectacular views are on offer. There is also time for a thrilling luge ride! Next stop is the Agrodome for an action packed hour of farming entertainment and education that’s unlike anything you’ve seen before. Enjoy some free time this afternoon before traveling to Te Puia to see the boiling mud pools and awesome geysers that Rotorua is famous for. This evening you will experience an entertaining Maori cultural performance which features the graceful poi dance and ferocious haka. This is followed by a Hangi feast prepared in the traditional way, over hot coals and buried in the ground.

Breakfast & Specialty Dinner included

Day 7: Rotorua – Napier – Masterton

Depart Rotorua and travel along the Thermal Explorer Highway to Huka Falls and Lake Taupo. Continue to Napier known as ‘The Art Deco Capital’, where a city tour will showcase the most comprehensive collection of art deco buildings in the world. Enjoy some free time to explore on your own or take a guided walk (optional). Travel to the Wairarapa, an emerging cool-climate wine region.

Hotel Copthorne Hotel and Resort Solway Park

Breakfast & Dinner included

Day 8: Masterton – Greytown – Wellington

Enjoy a leisurely start to the day before travelling to Greytown where you see the most complete examples of original Victorian wooden architecture. Drive through Featherston and through the Rimutaka Mountain Range before arriving into Wellington. Enjoy a city tour of the nation’s capital which will highlight the history and culture on show here. This evening enjoy a pre-dinner drink and reminisce on memories shared with your new friends at the farewell dinner.

Hotel James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor (Executive Room)

Breakfast & Specialty Dinner included

Day 9: Depart Wellington

Time to say goodbye. You will be transferred to the airport for your flight home after a memorable New Zealand Holiday.

Breakfast included