10D Contrasts of New Zealand
10D Contrasts of New Zealand
10D Contrasts of New Zealand
fromS$7,068 per person
Tour Overview
Coach Itinerary
Auckland → Rotorua → Te Anau → Milford Sound → Queenstown → Lake Tekapo → Mt. Cook → Lake Tekapo → Christchurch
ACCOMMODATION
Daily breakfast, 2 lunch and 5 dinner
Coach, includes shared return airport transfer
CRUISE
Milford Sound / Piopiotahi
10D Contrasts of New Zealand
fromS$7,068 per person
Tour Highlights
Sightseeing
- Auckland city tour
- Christchurch city tour
- Te Pa Tu Maori Experience in Rotorua
- Hobbiton Movie Set
- The National Kiwi Hatchery
- Scenic Cruise on Milford Sound
- Lake Tekapo
- Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve
- Aoraki/Mt. Cook
Tour Itinerary
Day 1
Arrive in Auckland
Day 2
Auckland
Day 3
Auckland – Rotorua
Day 4
Rotorua – Auckland- Queenstown
Day 5
Milford Sound (day trip)
Day 6
Queenstown
Day 7
Queenstown – Lake Tekapo
Day 8
Lake Tekapo - Christchurch
Day 9
Christchurch
Day 10
Depart from Christchurch
Day 1: Arrive in Auckland
New Zealand’s largest city is also one of its prettiest, as you’ll discover exploring at your leisure. Arrive early to linger in its hip harbourside precincts, where galleries and design-driven stores await. You’ll have worked up an appetite by the time you meet your fellow travel companions for a few local tipples at a Welcome Reception and dinner. Start your Auckland tour on a high, we say.
Overnight
Auckland
Meals
Dinner
Day 1: Arrive in Auckland
New Zealand’s largest city is also one of its prettiest, as you’ll discover exploring at your leisure. Arrive early to linger in its hip harbourside precincts, where galleries and design-driven stores await. You’ll have worked up an appetite by the time you meet your fellow travel companions for a few local tipples at a Welcome Reception and dinner. Start your Auckland tour on a high, we say.
Overnight
Auckland
Meals
Dinner
Day 2: Auckland
If you didn’t get your city bearings yesterday, you will on an Auckland tour today. Have your camera poised as you reach Mission Bay, a dreamy waterside suburb where the blues patchwork to the horizon. Click! Then get snap happy once again at Bastion Point and the Michael Joseph Savage Memorial, offering epic vistas over Auckland and its harbours. Click, click, click! Want some tips on how to spend your free afternoon in New Zealand’s largest city? How about going behind the scenes of the All Blacks, arguably the world’s most legendary rugby team? Or cruising to Waiheke Island to sip more wine at forward-thinking cellar doors? This evening’s Auckland tour is at your leisure.
Overnight
Auckland
Meals
Breakfast
Day 3: Auckland – Rotorua
You could be forgiven for thinking Rotorua’s landscapes are a sci-fi movie set. Mud pops and jettisons from bubbling geysers, and steam rushes skywards from cracks in the Earth. The surrounding forest is a fertile habitat for New Zealand’s national bird, being protected and bred at the National Kiwi Hatchery Aotearoa. The cute-as-a-button, cotton-ball kiwi is under threat in the wild; at the hatchery, passionate conservationists reveal how they are saving the population, one incubated egg at a time. Tonight, dive deep into Indigenous culture and traditions on a Rotorua tour at Te Pa Tu Māori Experience, where your hangi Highlight Dinner is cooked underground. This is a meal you won’t forget in a hurry.
Overnight
Rotorua
Meals
Breakfast, Dinner
Day 4: Rotorua – Auckland- Queenstown
Lord of the Rings fanatics, prepare for a day of goosebumps. Your Rotorua tour begins with breakfast served in the very spot that Frodo and Bilbo once lived. The Hobbiton Movie Set is all rolling hills and emerald pastures, a storybook landscape for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. The feel-good vibes that ensure will follow you all the way to Queenstown, the self-proclaimed adventure capital of New Zealand. It makes perfect sense – there are ski fields, white-water river and bridges strapped with bungy cords wherever you turn. And then there’s the dining scene; Queenstown is home to some of the country’s most awarded restaurants. Whether you’re in the mood for bulging burgers or lakeside tapas, ask us for recommendations on this leg of your Queenstown New Zealand tour.
Overnight
Queenstown
Meals
Breakfast
Day 5: Milford Sound (day trip)
Bring your stamina and sense of adventure – things get a little wild today. Nature rules as you skirt Queenstown’s gleaming Lake Wakatipu, and traverse the Devil’s Staircase to Te Anau, the alpine gateway to World Heritage listed Fiordland National Park. Once you’ve paused to admire the drama at Mirror Lakes, Knobs Flat, Hollyford Valley lookout, Cleddau Valley and the Chasm, you’ll begin to understand why Rudyard Kipling called this the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’. You haven’t even seen Bowen Falls or Milford Sound/Piopiotahi yet… The best Milford Sound/Piopiotahi cruise sees you in the company of eagle-eyed guide, who not only knows the immense geological history of the region, but can also point out sun-baking fur seals and playful dolphins.
Overnight
Queenstown
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch
Day 6: Queenstown
Take today’s Queenstown New Zealand tour at your own pace. Like things fast and furious? Feel the wind in your hair on the high-octane Shotover Jet, perhaps, your high-octane chariot churning over the Shotover River’s white-water rapids. Prefer to be able to talk (and drink wine) while you cruise? Glide across Lake Wakatipu aboard the historic TSS Earnslaw to Walter Peak High Country Farm for a gourmet barbecue lunch in a dreamy alpine setting. Wherever you wander, be sure to save space for tonight’s Highlight Dinner at Postmasters Café, a historic Arrowtown cottage replete with picket fence and Instagrammable gardens.
Overnight
Queenstown
Meals
Breakfast, Dinner
Day 7: Queenstown – Lake Tekapo
Whether pinot noir grapes or cherries, things grow well in the fertile Central Otago region of the South Island. Get a taste for the area’s plump stone fruit at a local orchard, where the farmers will guide you around the estate. Mountain drama – including views of Aoraki/Mt. Cook – is your backdrop en route to Lake Tekapo, with water so turquoise it looks like a Renaissance painting. This part of the country is ravishing and remote; the lack of light pollution means dazzling Southern Hemisphere stargazing at UNESCO World Heritage listed Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve. It’s handy to have an astronomer in your company to decode the constellations of the Milky Way. If there was ever a NZ experience that put life in perspective, this is it.
Overnight
Lake Tekapo
Meals
Breakfast, Dinner
Day 8: Lake Tekapo - Christchurch
The Canterbury region of the west coast is a bucolic union of grassy plains, mirror-like lakes and snow-capped mountains, the kind of landscape that you might see on postcards. Enjoy some warm Kiwi hospitality at Morelea, the home of Angie and Stan Taylor. Indulge in a Be My Guest barbecue lunch and hear about a lifetime spent in farming in New Zealand. You'll also get to witness Angie preparing her famous pavlova dessert. Whether installations or bijou boutiques, this city packs a mighty art punch, as you’ll discover on tomorrow’s Christchurch tour. For now, the only thing to do is celebrate your NZ holiday at one of the city’s forward-thinking restaurants and bars. Ask us for recommendations.
Overnight
Christchurch
Meals
Breakfast, Lunch
Day 9: Christchurch
Start your last full day of your travels touring the beautiful English city of Christchurch, which is not only rebuilding itself after the devastating 2010/11 earthquakes, but is changing the way architects think about design. Case in point the mind-bending Transitional Cathedral, made largely of cardboard, and Turanga, the gold-clad central library. A big day leads to a big evening joining your Travel Director and travel mates for a celebratory Farewell Dinner featuring produce from the Canterbury region.
Overnight
Christchurch
Meals
Breakfast, Dinner
Day 10: Depart from Christchurch
Your holiday concludes this morning after breakfast. Transfer to Christchurch Airport for your onward flight.
Meals
Breakfast
Pricing
fr S$7,068
Airline Schedules may change at short notice. Please consider possible flight disruptions when booking your flights.
• Day 1: Flights to arrive by 4:00pm into Auckland Airport
• Day 4: Auckland to Queenstown NZ623 (*Required Internal Flights)
• Day 10: Flights to depart any time from Christchurch Airport
TERMS & CONDITIONS
Travel Period: April 2023 - March 2024 (Fixed departures). Prices are quoted in SGD based on per person, twin sharing basis. Peak season surcharge applies for selected dates. Prices exclude gratuities and personal expenses. Prices are correct at time of print and subject to change without prior notice. Tours are subject to availability and confirmation. All travellers are responsible for obtaining the appropriate visa or NZeTA (New Zealand Electronic Travel Authority), vaccinations and health certificates. All travellers are also responsible for ensuring that their passport is valid for at least six months at point of entry into travel destination.