TRIP TO NEW ZEALAND

Day 1: Arrive Auckland ‘Welcome to New Zealand’

• Welcome to New Zealand
• Upon arrival kindly be met and greeted by our driver and be transferred to your hotel
• Rest of the day at leisure
• Overnight at hotel

Day 2: Auckland City Tour including Kelly Tarlton Aquarium

• After breakfast self drive passengers will collect their rental car from Hertz depot, while SIC passengers will be collected from your accommodation for Auckland Morning Highlights tour. Today journey over the Auckland Harbour Bridge for stunning views back to the city. Visit the Viaduct Harbour and travel through the Auckland Domain. Following this, along the stunningly scenic waterfront route of Tamaki Drive to the Michael Joseph Savage Memorial Park, in Mission Bay
• Following the city tour we visit Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic Encounter and Underwater World. Kelly Tarlton's showcases over 30 live animal exhibits, from over 80 different species in spectacular habitat displays, including New Zealand's only colony of Antarctic penguins. See New Zealand's unique aquatic life up close, comprising an impressive collection of sharks, gigantic stingrays, and beautiful seahorses
• Overnight at hotel

Michael Joseph Savage

Kelly Tarlton Aquarium

Day 3:  Auckland – Waitomo Caves – Rotorua

• After breakfast self drive passengers will drive whereas passengers in coach will be collected from your central city hotel to travel south from Auckland, to the famous Waitomo Caves. On arrival enjoy a comprehensive cave tour, where you will have the opportunity to view thousands of luminescent lights radiating from the unique Waitomo glowworms, as expert guides provide informative commentary on the Caves historical and geological significance
• Enjoy the limestone shafts, stunning Cathedral cavern and then take a unique boat ride through the glowworm grotto
• We continue our tour this afternoon by driving to Rotorua, including passing through the beautiful Fitzgerald Glade where the roadside trees arch overhead to form a tunnel of natural greenery
• Overnight at hotel

Waitomo Caves

Cathedral Cavern 

Day 4: Rotorua Tour including Te Puia, Agrodome Sheep Show & Rainbow Springs

• After Breakfast,self drive passengers will drive their rental car from your hotel for your Rotorua Sights
• Your first experience of the day is Te Puia, a place of Maori culture and a thermal wonderland of impressive geysers and boiling mud pools. Also explore Rainbow Springs Nature Park, full of Rainbow Trout and showcasing native flora and fauna as well as the New Zealand Kiwi finishing the tour with Agrodome Sheep Show
• Overnight at hotel.

Te Puia

Rainbow Springs Nature Park

Day 5: Rotorua – Queenstown (Flight not Included)

• After Breakfast,self Drive passengers will return their vehicle at airport for your flight to Queenstown
• On arrival at Queenstown airport self drive passengers will collect their vehicle & check in to Hotel
• Overnight at hotel

Day 6: Full Day Milford Sound Excursion including Scenic Cruise & Lunch

• After Breakfast,self Drive passengers will drive from Queenstown to Milford hugging the shores of Lake Wakatipu, proceed past wind turbines, deer farms and across rural farmland, before reaching Lake Te Anau, the 'Gateway to Fiordland'. Board the waiting vessel for a one hour forty minute full length cruise of Milford Sound out to the Tasman Sea
• After the cruises sit back, relax and enjoy the view from the coach on the return journey to Queenstown.  Self drive passengers can upgrade today to go by coach
• Overnight at hotel

Lake Wakatipu

Lake Te Anau

Deer Farms

Day 7: Entry to Skyline Gondola with 1 Luge Ride

• After breakfast, make your own way to Skyline Gondola enjoy the stunning views as you ride the Gondola - the steepest cable car lift in the Southern Hemisphere. The Gondola carries you 450 metres above Queenstown and Lake Wakatipu to the top of Bob's Peak
• En route you will enjoy a spectacular 220 degree panorama, with views of Coronet Peak. The remarkables, Walter Peak, Cecil Peak and over Queenstown.  On arrival our purpose built viewing platforms and outdoor terraces provide great photo opportunities. Jump on your specialised Luge cart, and then take control as you zoom down the Luge track
• Overnight at hotel

Gandola Ride

Harbour at Walter Peak

Day 8: Queenstown – Fox Glacier / Franz Josef

• After Breakfast, self drive passengers will drive their rental vehicle. Travel past Lake Wanaka and then follow the shore of Lake Hawea through to Makarora. From here you are on the Haast Road which follows the ancient Maori trail to the West Coast
• Overnight at hotel

Makarora

Day 9: 20 Minutes Helicopter Flight with Snow Landing

• After Breakfast, board the waiting helicopter for a spectacular and exciting 20 minute scenic flight and a snow landing on the glacier
• Overnight at hotel

Day 10: Fox / Franz Josef – Greymouth – Tranz Alpine – Christchurch

• Self drive your  journey to Christchurch or by train.  Leave Greymouth travel past Lake Brunner and the subtropical rainforests of New Zealand’s West Coast, crossing the main divide through Otira Tunnel, before arriving into Arthurs Pass. Truly one of the world’s great scenic train trips through the dramatic contrast of dry beech forests and tussock land on one side of the Alps and lush green landscapes on the other
• Overnight at hotel

Train Journey

Rain Forests

Day 11: Farewell Christchurch, New Zealand

• After Breakfast, self drive passengers will return their rental car Hertz Christchurch airport for your departure flight