Reviews of Classic 10 Day North & South Island Highlights

Arranging our last minute 10 day trip to New Zealand with First Light Travel and Travel Designer Taylor Nguyen was a great experience that yielded fantastic results. Highly recommend to anyone looking to design a trip to New Zealand. Taylor took the time to understand our profile and interests for the trip, and developed a first class itinerary that required only subtle modifications. She was diligent in ensuring we were comfortable with the plan, range of accommodations and tours. We had an incredible time and the itinerary, accommodations, and tours were awesome and a perfect fit. Taylor's guidance in developing the overall plan and catering it specifically to our needs was outstanding. We are frequent global travelers with multiple major overseas trips per year. Our New Zealand was right up there with any other top tier travel we have taken over the decades! It was so good to return to NZ once again after over 40 years.

Our itinerary was thoughtfully planned by First Light Travel Designer Taylor Nguyen based on our travel preference, the amount of time we had and the places we desired to cover. Even though we only had 11 days in NZ, it didn’t feel rushed. All the connections and pick up worked like clock work. We enjoyed the Hobbiton tour, the hike at Mt Cook, the plane ride over Milford Sound. It was a pity we didn’t get to do the helicopter ride through Franz Josef glaciers due to bad weather. Otherwise the whole trip would have felt more complete. Part of the itinerary allowed us to self drive, which we appreciated as we could take in the sights at our own time. If only the rental car was in a better condition. All in all, we would recommend First Light Travel to any traveller who seeks free and easy but not random and not having to sweat the planning.

We are very pleased to that we can report a most successful and enjoyable trip to New Zealand, due to the fantastic self-drive/flight/train itinerary that Nicole put together for the 4 of us. Her thoughtfulness and quick work in developing an outstanding itinerary for us was the best. Everywhere we went, everything worked like clockwork, and she put together an itinerary where we experienced many wonderful areas of New Zealand. The accommodations were excellent, and the limo service was above reproach. We had the trip of a lifetime and I thank Nicole and First Light Travel for that.

Andy, Peggy, Jim and Terri, USA

Nicole at First Light Travel was very helpful. She arranged our two weeks vacation in New Zealand and my sister and I had a wonderful time on our adventure. Everything went very smoothly on all of our stops and the accommodation was top notch. Exactly what we had expected. The scenic drives were beautiful and we had a very enjoyable trip. Would recommend them to anyone.