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Welcome to Auckland
‘Haere Mai’ … Welcome to New Zealand
Relax you are now officially on holiday and everything has been taken care of! We will meet you at the airport and drive you directly to your hotel to freshen up and unwind. Tonight, enjoy a Welcome Reception and dinner with your Travel Director.
Meals: Dinner with wine
Accommodation: Auckland - 2 Nights
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Auckland at Leisure
Enjoy a relaxed start to the day before heading to the New Zealand Maritime Museum for an exclusive America’s Cup tour. Afterwards, enjoy an extended city sights tour of Auckland. Travel around Auckland’s waterfront from central city out to Mission Bay. Prepare your camera for the stop at Bastion Point and the Michael Joseph Savage Memorial, as you will get stunning shots of Auckland, the North Shore and the Waitemata. This afternoon is at leisure.
Some Activities and sightseeing options if you have time:
Meals: Breakfast
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Auckland – Rotorua
The O’Sullivan’s welcome you to their Waikato estate for a country-style lunch in their Red Barn. Expect country banter and farm-to-table fare prepared with a lot of love. The next hot spot – in every sense of the word – on your NZ holiday is Rotorua. Visit Te Puia to see and support Maori artisans at work, then continue your Rotorua tour at the steamy Whakarewarewa Thermal Reserve, a staggering valley where geysers pop and thermal springs jettison skywards.
Accommodation: Rotorua - 2 Nights
Meals: Breakfast, Be My Guest Lunch
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Rotorua
Today, choose your own adventure. Tonight, dive deep into Indigenous culture at Te Pā Tū Māori Experience. Hear about Māori history, traditions, and future aspirations across an evening of celebration and feasting. Enjoy a forest kai horotai (seasonal canapes) and chef choice aperitif, followed by a seasonal three-course dinner.
Meals: Breakfast & Highlight Dinner
Accommodation: Rotorua - 2 Nights
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Rotorua - Wellington
You’ll hear Huka Falls well before you see it – 220,000 litres of water thunder over an 11 metre high waterfall every second. The road ahead unfolds in a broad panorama of Lake Taupo then the Kapiti Coast to New Zealand’s cool little capital, Wellington.
Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner with wine
Accommodation: Wellington - 2 nights
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Wellington
Your day in Wellington should – must – begin with a coffee. The city is known for its uber-cool cafés and with coffee in hand you will head out on a city sights tour to take in highlights such as its iconic cable car, parliament and Mt. Victoria. This afternoon is yours to discover Wellington. Perhaps visit Te Papa Museum of New Zealand, tour the Wairarapa wine region or the first urban completely fenced ecosanctuary of Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne, where the biodiversity of 225 hectares of forest is being restored.
Meals: Breakfast
Inclusions
Itinerary Variations – the provider strives to improve trip itineraries. If improvements can be made, or if circumstances beyond their control make changes necessary, the provider reserves the right to vary itineraries and to make substitutions.
Tour Inclusion :
Sightseeing Highlights
- Join Bridgette and Lance O'Sullivan on their lush Waikato dairy farm for morning tea
- A first-hand encounter with Māori culture and cuisine, where guests get to experience the centuries-old traditions of New Zealand's Indigenous people.
- When you visit amazing Te Puia Thermal Reserve, you help contribute to the Reserve’s Māori Arts and Crafts institute.
- Huka Falls
Included Meals
- 6 Full Buffet Breakfasts
- 1 Be My Guest Lunch
- 2 Dinners with wine
- 1 Highlight Dinner
Plus
- Welcome Reception
- Travel Wallet, Luggage Tags & Map of New Zealand
- Hotel Porterage Included
- Return Airport Transfers
What Jess says about this tour: This is the insiders trip to New Zealand, we are very fond of our sailing and rural sectors as well as our indigenous culture - this trip takes you behind the farm gate at an orchard and a dairy farm, the marina and into the heart of the Maori Culture. Enjoy getting to know us better!
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