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New Zealand Guided Tours

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Private New Zealand Guided Tours with your own driver-guide. Exciting range of tours for 2026/2027 and beyond. Start planning with your personal consultant. Journey through the best of New Zealand with one of our guided tours. Your private tour guide-driver will cater your vacation to suit you, whether you are a couple, family, group of friends or extended group. Moreover they will ensure you hit all the highlights – at the pace you like best.

Choose the length of tour you would prefer, or ask us for a different length. Our guided tours are fully customisable, so if you want to add or change any details, we will make it happen!

We offers guided New Zealand tour packages and all inclusive package deals. We specialise in tailored private guided ‘escorted’ tours for couples, families and small or large groups.

Superb personal tour guides

By the end of your vacation, your private guide will feel like a close friend. Our guides are experts on New Zealand, with a lifetime’s worth of insider knowledge, including insights into all the highlights and hidden gems that make New Zealand so special.

Your highly experienced New Zealand tour guide will meet you at any airport or your choice and take care of all driving throughout your holiday.

In addition to showing off the sights, your guide will enrich your experience with stories of New Zealand’s Maori and European history. You will gain explanations of the powerful natural forces that shaped the dramatic landscape. All this plus the personal touch that makes our guided tours unsurpassable.

Your guide will share insider knowledge about the best viewpoints, the most scenic walkways, the most delicious restaurants, the local watering holes, and the quirky local shops.

There’s a reason why our guided tours are so phenomenal – because nothing can beat seeing New Zealand through the eyes of a local.

Moreover, your guide will customise your New Zealand guided tour to suit your group in every way. If you are travelling as a family, your guide will provide diversions to keep everyone happy, young and old. If you have a particular interest in history, culture, geology, wineries, wildlife, photography, etc. let us know. Your guide will tailor your holiday to include a wealth of knowledge about your area of interest.

Fully customised, one-of-a-kind itineraries

Though we provide a number of example itineraries to get you started, it is our experience that makes no two guided tours the same.

Our all inclusive trips to New Zealand are carefully crafted to surpass every expectation. We will work with you until your New Zealand guided tour itinerary looks exactly the way you want it to. No detail is too small to consider!

So if your top destination is not on one of our itineraries, let us know and we will work it in.

Or, if you truly want a bespoke experience, we love working with you to design a fully customised adventure. Just get in touch with us, and we will schedule a time to discuss your ideas and desires. Then we can start planning the trip of a lifetime for you.

Our team is based locally in New Zealand, and we have all travelled extensively throughout New Zealand. We provide hands-on assistance through every step of the planning and booking process. Furthermore we have a vast range of knowledge about New Zealand that we call upon when crafting each itinerary.

Everything under the sun – New Zealand Guided Tours

As New Zealand’s top Guided Tour Operator we offer holidays and vacations to international travellers wishing to travel around the North Island, South Island or New Zealand in its entirety. We even offer special interest tour packages, such as Lord of the Rings tours as well as Luxury Guided Tours.

New Zealand is unique in that practically every type of landscape is found within this very small country. Our activities are carefully selected to showcase the very best of each unique location. And of course we can customise your activity inclusions as well.

If you have a taste for adventure, we can provide all different levels of excitement, from jet-boating through to skydiving.

If you enjoy active sports, you can try a staggering range of activities in New Zealand. From mountain biking and hiking, through to swimming with dolphins, rafting, canyoning, and adventure caving.

And if wildlife is your passion, you won’t want to miss seeing our fantastic native animals, many which can be found nowhere else in the world. Penguins, kiwis, dolphins, whales, seals, wekas, keas…you can discover all of these stunning animals in the wild.

And if you think of anything else you have always wanted to try, New Zealand is the place to do it!

Excellent accommodation

We work with all of the top accommodation operators throughout New Zealand, so you are guaranteed to be comfortable and well-looked-after during your stay. Our hotels, motels, and apartment complexes are located in the very best locations. We make sure they are within easy walking distance of the town centres, and often come with breathtaking views.

You have the option to choose your level of accommodation, from standard 4-star accommodation through to luxurious 5-star accommodation. We can even include exquisite luxury lodges in your itinerary.

Experience New Zealand Highlights on your New Zealand Guided Tours

From majestic fiords to glowworm grottos, there is no better way to discover the magic of New Zealand than with a personalised guided tour. This will be the vacation of a lifetime!

If you are travelling with younger children, you may wish to check out our family guided tours. And if you have less than 10 days here, we recommend that you choose either a North Island Tour or South Island Tour as your focus.

Looking for a New Zealand Guided Tours luxury experience, guided or independent? Visit New Zealand Luxury Escapes.

Your happiness is our priority – so let us know what we can do to make your all inclusive vacation the best it can possibly be!

Read our reviews here. Or get in touch with our team directly here to start planning your New Zealand Tour. 

 

 

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Nicole Stevenson – Senior New Zealand Tour Consultant
Samantha Wells – Logistics & Sales Support
Rebecca Holland – Travel Writer
Alex Gillespie – Senior New Zealand Tour Consultant
Nina Smolar – Guided Tours Logistics Specialist
Adeline Duffy – Guided Tours Logistics Specialist

Contact us: +64 3 443 2111
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Dan Landreth
10/04/2026
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We enjoyed our tour so much! Francois was an amazing match to be our guide. Not only was he skilled, knowledgeable and attentive to every aspect of the tour but he was personable and a pleasure to spend the time with as well. Nicole prepared an itinerary for a 10 day tour of both the South and North islands that was a fantastic sample of the beauty and experiences that New Zealand has to offer. Every choice of accommodations was delightful. We stayed in 5 star hotels and apartments at each location. They offer several packaged tours but the dates available didn't work for us. So Nicole prepared a special itinerary for just the two of us with the private driver and guide. We appreciate her skill in preparing that itinerary. I have to say a little more about how well Francois treated us. He was always prompt. Never rushed us. Gave us terrific recommendations of places to dine for meals on our own. He drove so skillfully and gave us great commentary on the sights along the way. It felt almost like having a family member show us around. We will cherish this experience for the rest of our lives.
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John Collins
07/04/2026
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From start to finish, this tour group was terrific -- very helpful in working out the itinerary and customizing to suit our interests, including adding on 3 rounds of golf over out 14 day tour, from Auckland to Queenstown. our guide/driver (Sally) was very knowledgeable about every part of the country we explored, and she was able to make changes on the fly. It was the perfect tour of the entire country, and we can highly recommend the tour company
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margaret santucci
15/03/2026
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Returning from an unforgettable 19 day New Zealand tour, thanks to Francine's sterling service. She had been very helpful and assisted us, each time we enquired. The hotels we stayed in, were excellent and so was the food. We felt being taken care of, as VIP's. Our luggages were carried to and from our rooms, adding to a stress-free holiday. The tour leader Nick and our careful coach driver Terry, were always giving interesting information, related to where we passing from. Had we drove a hired car, instead of this coach tour, we would have had a less satisfied holiday. We also made friends with people on our coach, who were coming from different countries. I gladly recommend New Zealand Guided tours.
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rk rajan
22/01/2026
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We were a group of 7 collegemates in our 50s / 60s who travelled from all over the world from our homes in India , Europe and the US with our spouses to New Zealand , which frankly had been in our bucket list of places to travel to , but we didn’t know how we could find someone who could arrange a 16 day bespoke tour of the South & North Islands from 12th Dec to 26th Dec 2025. We got to know about New Zealand Guided Tours based in Wanaka quite by accident and frankly was the best decision we made. Francine Smith who is the Managing Director of the Company handled our trip ( we are sure supported with her very efficient backend team ) and I was impressed by her promptness in responding to numerous emails / calls and guiding us through the planning process . Their attention to detail in making hotel bookings in all the towns we travelled in down town or picturesque areas , logistics , taking care of our preferred excursions , special requirements was faultless . And this was right down to a pickup and drop to the international airports. This trip to Aotearoa wouldn’t have been as enjoyable as it was without Gunther our guide and driver with his detailed knowledge of the country, its customs and his wry sense of humour . If we were to fault Francine with anything it would be her difficulty to control the inclemental weather for two days at Mt Cook! :) Our trip in a 17 seater Mercedes Sprinter ( with a luggage van ) took us from Christchurch to Kaikoura , Arthur’s Pass via the TranzAlpine Railway , Lake Tekapo , Mt Cook , Queenstown , Wanaka , Te Anau & Milford Sound in the South Island . In the North we covered Rotorua & Auckland with various enjoyable excursions booked by the Company . If you are a group looking to visit New Zealand, our entire group of 14 are unanimous in recommending New Zealand Guided Tours as your travel partners. You will love it ! Kumar Rajan
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Damir Sabol
12/01/2026
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We are a family from Croatia that has just returned from a 12 day South Island guided tour ogranised by New Zealand Guided Tours. And it was a fantastic experience! Everthing was really well organised and clear in term of the itenerary and Alex, who was our tour organiser, handled all the changes in real time really well. Like when one activity was canceled due to bad weather, she immediately offered some other experiences to replace it to use our credit and even more importantly, to use our time as well as possible to fully experience New Zealand's South island. And our guide Melissa was wonderful - taking care that everything is well planned day to day and that we use our time in the best possible way. She made sure that we get rest when needed and that activities like hikes are not too difficult so that all family members can really enjoy. Also, she shared a lot of interesting historical information that provided a lot of context to places we visited. We really enjoyed our New Zealand trip!
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Prabhu Venkatesh
30/12/2025
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Francine did such a wonderful, detailed, and custom job arranging the tour for us. South Island and North Island for 14 chilled-out yet demanding people with varied dietary preferences - couldn’t have been easy. Günther started as our travelling guide and NZ mentor, and we all left as lifelong friends. Great work, and highly recommended!
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Beth Taylor
27/11/2025
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We spent 3 wonderful weeks in New Zealand. Our trip was organized by Francine at NZ Guided Tours. Francine listened carefully to our input of what we did want to see, and more importantly to what we did not want to see. She created a fantastic itinerary with something for everyone in our group of 8. The accommodations were exceptional. The pace was perfect for all 8 of us seniors. In addition, we were greeted and and cared for by our wonderful driver/guide Lisa. Her knowledge of and passion for NZ is exceptional! Thank you Francine and staff, as well as Lisa for making this trip so special! Beth and Don Taylor
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Jane C
27/11/2025
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i travelled to New Zealand with 8 good friends for just over three weeks in November 2025. I booked the trip with Francine of New Zealand Guided Tours. It was an absolutely fabulous trip. Francine was wonderful to work with and planned an itinerary that was tailed to our wishes and what we wanted to see and experience. We traveled in a 12 seater Mercedes Sprinter Van which was quite comfortable for the 8 of us especially since to see all New Zealand has to offer - both the North and South islands involves quite a bit of travel time. We were very lucky to have Lisa Metivier as our driver and guide who made the entire trip so very special. Her knowledge and obvious love of the country was outstanding. She made us laugh every day and showed us a very personal vision of this beautiful country. If you are looking for a company who can tailer make a trip to New Zealand for you I would highly recommend New Zealand Guided Tours.
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Paul Stueck
27/11/2025
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Francine Smith of New Zealand Guided Tours did a wonderful job working with our friend setting up our NZ tour of just over three weeks travelling to both north and south islands. The tour was varied as far as activities with lots of interesting stops as we drove. The hotels where we stayed were top notch and always with terrific views and amenities such as breakfast each morning. Our leader/guide driver Lisa Métivier was the absolute best. She was always ahead of the game making sure our next event was ready. She was bright, knowledgeable, chatty, and always on top of things. Many times she went above and beyond to make our trip the best it could be adding little side trips showing off her country and things and places she loved. We all felt lucky to have her as our guide.

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