New Zealand Panorama
Experience Overview
Experience the contrasts of New Zealand's two distinct islands. From Queenstown's magnificent outdoors and Rotorua's geothermal wonderland to Auckland's sparkling harbour - yours to explore along a journey through this island nation.
Highlights
Dining Summary
- 6 Breakfast (B)
- 3 Dinner (D)
Be My Guest
- Queenstown: Come and meet your host a 'Southern Girl' local farmer in the South Island, for some good old fashioned southern hospitality.
Dive into Culture
- Rotorua: Visit Te Puia for the Te Po experience, an evening of Māori culture and connection. Dine on traditional Hangi-inspired cuisine, followed by a captivating cultural performance.
MAKE TRAVEL MATTER®
- Rotorua: Visit the National Kiwi Hatchery Aotearoa and learn about the work being done to save New Zealand's national bird. Your visit contributes to saving the kiwi bird.
Must-see Highlights
- Explore Waitomo Caves, and the National Kiwi Hatchery in Rotorua with a Local Specialist
- Discover Queenstown, Auckland, and Rotorua
- Visit A sheep and deer farm in Southland and Whakarewarewa Geothermal Valley in Rotorua
Trip Details
Product Code: 19264
Tour Type: Group Tour
Accommodation: Deluxe
Transport: Private
Guide Language: English
Travel Styles:
Family, 55+
Tour Operator:
Trafalgar (CA)
Supplier Code: 695.2093A
Starts: Queenstown (Nz), New Zealand
Finishes: Auckland, New Zealand
Duration: 7 days
Departures: Guaranteed
Physical Rating:
Easy
Includes
Whats Included
- An expert Travel Director and professional Driver
- Cherry-picked hotels, all tried and trusted
- Porterage where hotels provide this service
- Breakfast daily and up to half of your evening meals
- Must-see sightseeing
- All land transport shown. All transfers shown
- Luxury air-conditioned coach with Wi-Fi in most countries or alternative transportation (such as rail journeys)
- Optional Experiences and free time
- A Trafalgar bonus - Intra-Air Flight: Queenstown to Auckland
Price
Price per person: (Double Occupancy) CAD $4,489 ($641 /day)
Itinerary
Your journey to the Islands of New Zealand kicks off in Queenstown (flights to arrive prior to 4pm). The evening is free for you to enjoy one of its many lakefront restaurants and bars. Why not try some of the famous New Zealand lamb with a Pinot Noir from the local Otago wine region?
Accommodation: Millennium
Get a taste of country life combined with good old fashioned southern hospitality as you meet a ‘Southern Girl’ local farmer at Real Country on this Be My Guest experience. Have demonstrations of Horse communication and Working sheep dog mustering. Try your hand at a Stock whip cracking lesson, and feed and interact with the friendly farm animals. For every guest, we donate funds to The Fairlight Foundation, Advancing Women in Agriculture. After this fun insight into the real New Zealand, you'll be ready for a scenic afternoon. Jump right in travelling to the historic gold mining heritage of Arrowtown. Learn the town’s history when in 1862 thousands flocked to Arrowtown to strike it rich in gold mining. Stroll through town admiring the dozens of buildings from the gold rush era and more recently restored historic cottages, churches, and new boutiques and shops. Don’t miss the Chinese Settlement at the edge of the Arrow River made of restored shelters and buildings originally constructed in 1868. For the next part of your adventure, it’s all aboard the vintage steamship TSS Earnslaw heading across Lake Wakatipu to Walter Peak High Country Farm for a gourmet barbecue dinner, piled high with local delicacies. After dinner at this historic homestead, learn about life on the farm watching the sheep dogs in action before the scenic cruise back to your Queenstown hotel.
Accommodation: Millennium
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Say ‘good morning’ to Queenstown with a full day of ways to play in this adventure capital. How about an Optional Experience of a thrilling, adrenalin-rush jet boat ride with Skippers Jet on an excursion through Skippers Canyon? If you’re looking for another type of adventure, consider a journey through the rainforest of World Heritage Fiordland National Park for an unforgettable cruise on heritage listed national park Milford Sound/Piopiotahi past sheer cliffs, white-capped peaks, and waterfalls. This stunning landscape showcases the beauty of New Zealand. Or tempt your taste buds on a wine tour of the Otago region renowned for Pinot Noir, and other local varieties. You’ll visit and tour three premium boutique vineyards and enjoy a wine paired platter lunch. However you explore, there’s plenty of adventure to be had and shared with your travel mates after a full day.
Accommodation: Millennium
Meals: Breakfast
With fond memories of your time in Queenstown and its surrounds, it's a change of scene today departing Queenstown and flying north to Auckland, the ‘City of Sails.’ On arrival, you'll board your coach for the drive to Rotorua, the cultural capital, where you will be immersed in Maori history and culture.
Accommodation: Millennium
Meals: Breakfast
Begin at the National Kiwi Hatchery to learn everything about the New Zealand’s national bird, the kiwi, a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience. Watch kiwi eggs being incubated, the hatching process, and newly hatched kiwi chicks. Your Local Specialist will tell you all about their kiwi bird breeding programme, 'Operation Nest Egg' and how your visit contributes to it. After a morning learning about the kiwi, you’re off to Dive Into Culture at the Living Māori Village Whakarewarewa, the world's only living Māori village where people live on a daily basis, using natural geothermal resources to cook, bathe and heat their homes as they have for centuries. Soak in this beautiful land of geothermal fields and steaming lakes that the Tūhourangi Ngāti Wāhiao people have been living on since 1886. This evening, embark on the Te Po experience at Te Puia. Learn about Maori history and culture on this guided experience, which includes a dinner of hangi-inspired cuisine and a spellbinding cultural performance in a finely carved meeting house, Te Aronui a Rua. It ends on a high at the powerful Pohutu Geyser, where, armed with hot chocolate, you'll view one of New Zealand's geothermal wonderlands - featuring dramatic geysers, bubbling mud, surrounded by beautiful native bush.
Accommodation: Millennium
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Journey through King Country, which was at the centre of the New Zealand Wars in the 1860s. Join a Local Specialist in in a starry wonderland - a cavernous galaxy of twinkling glowworms, in shades of iridescent green and blue, lighting up the Waitomo Caves. Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, appears on the horizon, dazzling with not one, but two harbours. This evening, share the stories of your New Zealand Panorama tour at dinner with your Travel Director and companions at The Grill, celebrating Aotearoa's culinary treasures.
Accommodation: Horizon by SkyCity
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Savour your last morning of your New Zealand tour over a final delicious breakfast with your travel mates. Then bid farewell as you are transferred to the Auckland Airport for your onward flight (flights to depart anytime).
Meals: Breakfast
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Tour Operator
Trafalgar (CA)
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Reviews
Trusted Customer - Traveled, February 2025
Above and beyond the best! *personal information removed by Feefo* made all of the trip, perfect! Very well planned out. Our tour guide, *personal information removed by Feefo* was the best of the BEST!
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 02/23/2025
Randy Rabindranath - Traveled, April 2025
Great service. An extra day for Auckland
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 04/26/2025
Trusted Customer - Traveled, December 2024
Unimpressed! Everything seems to be outsourced and disconnected. The guide was unapproachable and the entire group did more talking about her than engaging with asking questions. Most international flights coming into New Zealand need to come through Auckland, not Queenstown. Therefore, after flying from LAX to Auckland, we had to book a flight to get to Queenstown (extra personal cost). They told us we needed to be there by 4pm for some sort of welcome/social... which consisted of the two of us saying hello to the guide for her to give us a walking map that had been photocopied a dozen times. After booking, the information about the inter-trip flight from Queenstown to Auckland revealed that our bags could only be 50lbs. Therefore, more fees. We were generally unimpressed with the manner/tone of the guide and everything felt as a sales pitch or maybe a pity cry. Everything is so expensive, blah blah, no one can afford a nice home. The bus at one point took us by multi-million dollar homes and then small shacks. I'm not sure what the point was, every country in the world has affluent communities as well as poverty. Another surprise was the demographic of the tour group; we didn't realize it was a senior citizen tour. I felt it was super tacky that alcohol was never included... after paying THOUSANDS of dollars for someone to keep track of how much more money we wanted to spend with booking add-on activities... you'd think you would just pad the overall cost and include some drinks. I felt pretty indifferent towards New Zealand after spending a week there, and frankly, I felt much worse about having booked with Trafalgar. The best parts of the trip were extra activities we booked independently, or restaurants we found and met with locals. We came to you for a turn key tour and we were constantly searching for things to do, places to eat. I travel all over the world (8 countries this year) and I'm pretty embarrassed with how much money I invested for this tour experience.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 12/21/2024
Trusted Customer - Traveled, October 2024
The sights of the Remarkables, Milford sound, and Rotorua were amazing. Definitely a must see. The tour guide, *Personal information removed by Feefo*, and the driver, *Personal information removed by Feefo* were outstanding providing a history of the region in context with settlers and natives and bringing us to understand where things lay in present day terms. They were wonderful! Under *Personal information removed by Feefo* expert hand the Transit from the bus to Tour sites went quickly and smoothly. She is patient, kind, knowledgeable, and adaptable to situations. She made our trip absolutely memorable!!
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 11/02/2024
Trusted Customer - Traveled, February 2025
My first Trafalgar tour to New Zealand. Daily itinerary had detailed information. It was nice that they have porter service to take our luggage from the bus to the hotel room and to the bus. When we arrived the hotel, we were already checked in (except the day of arrival for the tour) and immediately received the room key from our Tour Director. However, there was 1 incorrect information was provided. The information provided by Trafalgar says checked luggage max weight is 44lbs due to intra-island flight instead of standard 50lb. The information we received from the Tour Director says 50lbs. Because the information from Trafalgar says 44lbs, we were for ed to bring medium size suitcase instead of large suitcase. We planned to spend 9 days in Australia before Trafalgar tour, we were not able to bring many clothing and had to limit souvenirs to buy due to space issues. Other tour group members brought large suitcases, so we were very disappointed with this inconsistent info. Itinerary included some free time, so it was nice because we could walk around the town to do things not included in the itinerary. Tour included the visit to a local farm to learn about the farm life, and we fed horse, pony, alpaca, etc. We wouldn’t have visited some areas without renting a car such ad Rotorua, if we didn’t purchase this tour.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 02/18/2025
Kay Geisler - Traveled, July 2024
Landed in Auckland and go directly to Rotoura, then Auckland the last night instead of the long ride to the airport the last day. I think it was terrible I had to pay for 2 rooms when I was with my daughter and granddaughter. There were 2 queen beds in every room we stayed in. Hope was amazing.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 07/27/2024
Doris Littrell - Traveled, March 2024
Excellent tour guide and fascinating country. I'd go with them again. Diversified experiences..
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 04/06/2024
Trusted Customer - Traveled, March 2024
Short but pleasant trip to New Zealand. It's a very good service. I always book with Trafalgar for a holiday trip overseas. I have booked and paid for 1 extra day before the tour with the travel agency, but somehow, the money has not been paid to the hotel. Anyhow, things got sorted out in the end, but I wish this would not happen again in the future.z
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 04/13/2024
Trusted Customer - Traveled, March 2024
Quick trip to New Zealand. Our tour guide, Hope was excellent, although I could have used a little more information about New Zealand and a less about the Maori. The accommodation in Auckland was superb! The flight connection from Queenstown to Auckland went very well. The morning at the farm near Queenstown was excellent and we thoroughly enjoyed Arrowtown. The trip on the boat across the lake to the excellent buffet and farm show was very enjoyable. We opted for the bus ride to Milford Sound and had we known we would be on the bus for about 10 hours, we would not have gone. Nonetheless, the waterfall’s were amazing and our bus driver was very informative. Our hotel room in Queenstown was good, but the one in Rotorua was poor! The bus ride from Auckland to Rotorua provided a terrific view of the countryside, and the visit to the Glow Worm cave was very interesting. The Maori show and dinner In Rotorua was excellent. The visit to the Kiwi hatchery was informative. The visit to the Maori village was very good and our guide was informative although somewhat abrasive at times. The farewell dinner was outstanding! This information was provided above.
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 03/28/2024
Jose Relunia - Traveled, September 2023
NZ feedback! Well organised and educational tour. I have No comment at this trip
Source: Tour operator Submitted: 09/23/2023
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