New Zealand Guided Tours

New Zealand Guided Tours

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Private New Zealand Guided Tours with your own driver-guide. Exciting range of tours for 2024/2025. 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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Travel Consultants

Contact your personal New Zealand Travel specialist today...

Sarah Christie – Guided Tours Logistics Specialist
Alex Gillespie – Senior New Zealand Tour Consultant
Nicole Stevenson – Senior New Zealand Tour Consultant
Francine Smith – Managing Director
Emma Bradley – Assistant Manager
Gen Boalch – Guided Tours Logistics Specialist

Contact us: +64 3 443 2111
E: info@newzealandguidedtours.com
Hours: Mon–Sat, 9am-5pm (NZDT)

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Based on 21 reviews
Jane Austgen
Jane Austgen
19/03/2024
Alex was making. So easy to work with. I changed the itinerary a couple of times, she was great about it and sent me several options. I would definitely use this service again. We had private tours the first couple of days and then rented a car. Everything was written out for us with details that included what to wear ont at particular tour. It couldn’t have been easier.
Rachelle Ochs
Rachelle Ochs
21/02/2024
Sally was an amazing guide during our trip! She was extremely helpful in pointing out spots of interest. The itenerary was balanced in allowing for activities as well as rest. Our honeymoon felt incredibly special because of the care that Sally and the rest of New Zealand Guided Tours took to ensuere that it was centered around what we wanted to do.
James Decker
James Decker
09/01/2024
Amazing experience with NZ Guided Tours. Family of 5 for 11 day trip throughout South Island. Extremely well coordinated and can't say enough good things about our guide Lou Brown. She was extremely knowledgeable but more importantly accommodating to our children and felt like another member of our family. Would highly recommend for families and groups looking to simplify seeing such an amazing but spaced out country. Local recommendations were so valuable and maximized our experience.
Linia Hardy
Linia Hardy
14/12/2023
We had the absolute pleasure of booking an 11-day Lord of the Rings guided tour for six of our closest friends with Francine. Our every need and aspiration was considered and a perfect plan to drive the entire country was created. The response time via email was nearly instantaneous and Francine made and incredible effort to answer all of our questions and gained our trust completely. With our guide and driver Wayne at the helm (We called him our "Eagle" due to being such Rings fans!), we did not have to worry about a single logistical detail. On top of that, Wayne made so many wonderful suggestions for photo opportunities, food stops, wine stops, LOTR filming locations and was a wealth of knowledge about the country. Our experience with New Zealand Guided Tours was top notch and if I could give TEN stars I would. Thank you so much to Francine, Wayne, and New Zealand Guided Tours for helping us to plan and experience our dream trip of a lifetime! Cannot wait to go back! <3
James Aljian
James Aljian
30/04/2023
Francine planned and organized a very thorough private tour for us on the North Island. We saw everything, yet our pace was relaxed. She booked us at the best hotels and she knows New Zealand inside and out. Our guide, Wayne Johnson was phenomenal. Would highly recommend.
Paul Gibbs
Paul Gibbs
19/04/2023
This was a marvellous holiday, paced really well with expert and caring organisation and hosted by a professional of the highest standard. I would recommend the company and its flexibility to anyone, they can give you the opportunities you know you want and more!
Jey Maran
Jey Maran
25/01/2023
We were a group of 15 who visited both north and South Island on a 14 day guided tour in December 2022. We are very pleased with guided New Zealand tours and Francine Smith. From the first email inquiry, Francine has been very responsive and prompt. She was easy to work with and is knowledgeable. The hotels we stayed in were excellent and easily among the best in town. The activities she scheduled were outstanding and we greatly enjoyed our trip to New Zealand. I would like to thank Francine particularly for choosing G. Gordon Hammer as our guide.
Louise Kiernan
Louise Kiernan
15/01/2023
We had a fantastic experience from start to finish. Francine arranged a tour that suited our family perfectly. She was very responsive and made sure we got exactly what we wanted (and we were a diverse group!). Our guide, Dirk, was knowledgable, patient, accommodating and had the patience of a saint. Honestly, we felt like we were in a magic bubble for 2 weeks. Couldn't have asked for a better NZ Adventure.
Mark Bridges
Mark Bridges
12/01/2023
We were so fortunate to have discovered New Zealand Guided Tours! From the beginning, Francine of NZGT was so helpful and responsive. She answered all our questions and provided lots of details concerning our trip. We booked a private guided 18 Day Lord of the Rings Guided Tour with New Zealand Guided Tours and couldn’t have been more pleased. The itinerary was perfect for our family and included many activities and sites that our family loved. The Lord of the Rings tour sites were all beautiful and of great interest to the LOTR fans in our family. The itinerary also included other activities such as a visit to the Glow Worm Caves, float plane ride, Gondola Ride and Luge-ing from tall mountains, a visit to the USA Antarctic Research Center in Christchurch, Jet boat ride and much more. One of the best things about our tour was our tour guide Mark. Mark provided commentary throughout the tour and took us to places only a seasoned tour guide would know of. Don’t bother looking for other tour companies as New Zealand Guided Tours is the best.
Jerrold Ong
Jerrold Ong
10/04/2020
Excellent services and reccomendations and they really listen to your request and cater to your needs. Respond really fast as well

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