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Daintree Rainforest

Northern Wonders

2025/2026 Season

Everyday Price From

$2,975

8 days

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Overview

While you could spend months exploring the North Island of New Zealand on a tour, if you’re travelling in the right company, you can immerse yourself in the highlights in a week. Discover Wellington’s coolest wine bars, drop in on Rotorua’s hot springs, find a pretty perch on a Bay of Islands tour, get your glow on during a Waitomo Caves tour, then ease into Auckland’s harbour-side lifestyle.

Locations Visited

Wellington, Rotorua, Auckland, Bay of Islands

Countries Visited

New Zealand

Travel Style

Best Buys

Accommodations

7 nights included

Age Requirements

Minimum age 5

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Itinerary

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Day 1

Welcome to Wellington

New Zealand’s cool little capital, Wellington is the kind of place you could easily lose yourself in for a day. Good thing you arrived early. Meet your Travel Director and fellow travel companions this afternoon for an orientation tour of Wellington where you will visit the peak of Mount Victoria, and short stroll will reward you with 360-degree views of the surrounding harbour and city. After the tour you may like to visit Te Papa, the Museum of New Zealand, home to an extraordinary collection of artefacts, including an eye-opening exhibit dedicated to Māori history. (Please note: There is an entry fee for Te Papa, this must be paid at the guests own expense.) Later, meet up with your fellow adventure-seekers for a Welcome Reception before your tour of the North Island of New Zealand.

  • Accommodation

    Travelodge Wellington


The Kapiti Coast is the summer playground of Wellingtonians – for good reason. You’ll follow in local footsteps as you make your way along a road that unfolds in a broad panorama of Lake Taupo, the largest (and perhaps bluest) of its kind in the country. It’s a landscape almost as otherworldly as Rotorua, where mud pops and jettisons from bubbling geysers, and steam rushes skywards from cracks in the Earth. This evening, explore Te Puia’s geothermal valley, and learn about Māori history and culture on this guided experience, which includes a dinner of hangi-inspired cuisine and a cultural performance in a finely carved meeting house, Te Aronui a Rua. It ends on a high at the Pohutu Geyser, where, armed with a hot chocolate you’ll view one of New Zealand’s geothermal wonderlands.

  • Accommodation

    Ibis Rotorua Hotel


  • Meals

    Breakfast

    Highlight Dinner

If there’s a New Zealand city where you want free time, Rotorua is it. Go your own way today, perhaps blissing out at Wai Araki Hot Springs & Spa. Who knew nature was this relaxing? Hobbit fans will want to take advantage of the opportunity to tour the sights featured in The Lord of the Rings movies at Hobbiton. These beautiful landscapes are not only a bucket list tour for Hobbit fans, but a gorgeous countryside getaway.

  • Accommodation

    Ibis Rotorua Hotel


  • Meals

    Breakfast

The Waitomo Caves are radiant – quite literally. While cruising cavernous underground waterways, your route is cast in a magical light by thousands of glowworms. It’s a fairytale start to your day. One that only gets better as you descend on Auckland, the ‘City of Sails’. You’ll discover how it got its moniker while gazing over its two yacht-studded harbours from the lookout at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. What a city, as your tour of Auckland reveals.

  • Accommodation

    Holiday Inn Express Auckland City Centre


  • Meals

    Breakfast

    Dinner

Your journey north to New Zealand’s Bay of Islands is not short of drama – discover 140 droplets of land ringed by turquoise sea at the top of the country. It’s undeniably beautiful, but it also holds a special historical significance: this is where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, between Captain William Hobson and Māori chiefs. Your guide, likely a descendant of one of the original signatories, will explain the significance of the site, while pointing out the world’s largest ceremonial war canoe and a carved meeting house.

  • Accommodation

    Copthorne Hotel and Resort


  • Meals

    Breakfast

    Dinner

Go as fast or as slow as you like today – there’s no rush, and no agenda. Talk to your Travel Director to organise leisurely jaunts up to Cape Reinga, the very top of New Zealand, via idyllic Ninety Mile Beach. Or glide around on an historic tall ship, or a trip to the iconic Hole in the Rock. If you’re a history buff, you may want to join a tour of Russell and learn more about the settling of the Bay of Islands. The choice is yours.

  • Accommodation

    Copthorne Hotel and Resort


  • Meals

    Breakfast

You’re about to reach the very tip of New Zealand, as your tour takes you to Whangarei – the county’s northern-most city. This is and a place where waterfalls meet beaches, galleries like the Hundertwasser Arts Centre pictured, meet museums. It’s like the country in a tantalising snapshot – a union of nature and forward-thinking culture. Explore at your leisure before sinking back into your coach seat for the mesmerising commute back to Auckland. Ask your Travel Director for tips on where to dine; Auckland is a bit of a culinary hotspot.

  • Accommodation

    Holiday Inn Express Auckland City Centre


  • Meals

    Breakfast

The only bad day in your Auckland tour is the one where you have to bid farewell. On your journey home, just remember how much pleasure you have packed into this last week.

  • Meals

    Breakfast

Highlights

Flexible Holidays

  • We’re here to point you in the right direction when it comes to wining, dining and relaxing across Auckland, Wellington and Rotorua. Ask your Travel Director for tips.

Iconic Sites

  • The Waitomo Caves are the stuff fairytales are made of. Illuminate your day cruising this limestone network, cast in the magical light of glowworms.

Make Travel Matter

  • The Te Po Experience at Te Puia contributes to the success of the Maori Arts & Crafts Institute, committed to preserving, encouraging, fostering and promoting Māori arts and crafts.

Natural Wonders

  • Rotorua is hot, in more ways than one. Steaming geysers, bubbling mud pools and mineral-rich springs are the beating heart of this geothermal valley.

Whats included

    • Specialist team of two highly experienced Travel Director and Driver Guide
    • 1 UNESCO World Heritage Sites – Fiordland National Park
    • Comfortable accommodation with easy access to city centres
    • National Park entrance fees

What to Bring

    • Comfortable walking shoes
    • Sunglasses, sunscreen and hat
    • Water bottle
    • Warm layers in cooler months
    • Camera

Flight information

  • Flights to and from the start/end of your trip are not included in the trip price.

    Day 1 – flights to arrive prior to 2.00pm into Wellington Airport
    Day 8 – flights to depart any time from Auckland Airport

Fitness Requirement

  • Low level of fitness required.

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