New Zealand Adventure
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Overview
Highlights
- New Zealand’s unspoiled natural scenery
- Auckland sightseeing and harbour cruise
- Geothermal Rotorua
- Art Deco walking tour in Napier
- Wellington’s Te Papa national museum
- TranzAlpine train excursion
- Two-night Franz Josef stay, with guided walk through the Glacial Valley
- Kiwi birds at West Coast Wildlife Centre
- Scenic Doubtful Sound excursion
- Outdoor mecca of Queenstown
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- Round-trip air transportation from listed cities; all flights within itinerary
- 13 nights’ accommodations in Superior First Class and First Class hotels
- 25 meals: 13 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 8 dinners
- Extensive sightseeing as described, including all entrance fees
- Services of an Odysseys Unlimited Tour Director
- Private motorcoach transportation throughout your trip
- Luggage handling for one bag per person
- Gratuities for local guides, dining room servers, airport and hotel porters, and all drivers
- $100 frequent traveler credit towards your next Odysseys Unlimited tour ($200 after 3 tours; $300 after 10 tours)
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Itinerary
Meals: Dinner
We arrive in New Zealand’s largest city early this morning and transfer to our hotel, where our rooms are ready for early check-in. After time to relax and freshen up, we take a casual walking tour of the area around our hotel. This evening we attend a briefing on the journey ahead, followed by a welcome dinner
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
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Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
En route to Rotorua today, we stop at Ruakuri Caves to see the unique glowworms that illuminate the underground grottoes and caves. Late this afternoon we visit Te Puia Thermal Reserve and Maori Cultural Center for a traditional hangi dinner and performance
Meals: Breakfast
With its geysers, bubbling mud pools, and hot thermal springs, Rotorua ranks as a geothermal wonder, as well as a center of indigenous Maori culture (Maoris comprise 40% of Rotorua’s population). We encounter this intriguing town on a morning t...
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Today we set out for one of New Zealand’s celebrated wine regions: Hawke’s Bay and the seaside city of Napier. We sample the local terroir at a wine tasting and lunch at Church Road Winery, one of the country’s oldest and most acclaim...
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Meals: Breakfast
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Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Today we fly south to Christchurch, New Zealand’s “Garden City.” Highlights of our city tour include the Botanic Gardens, the “green heart” of Christchurch dating to 1863; and Cathedral Square, for 150 years, the beating heart of Christchurch and site of Christchurch Cathedral. This afternoon is at leisure; we dine tonight at our hotel
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Early today we embark on one of the world’s great rail journeys aboard the TranzAlpine train: along the open farmland of the Canterbury Plain, through the foothills of the Southern Alps then into the snowcapped peaks themselves. We t...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
In Westland National Park this morning, we encounter one of New Zealand’s most spectacular sights: Franz Josef Glacier, the mass of ice that descends from the frigid upper reaches of the Southern Alps to a rainforest at sea level. Wi...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
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Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Today is at leisure to enjoy this outdoor mecca with a spectacular setting on Lake Wakatipu as we wish. Options abound, from jet boating and fly fishing to art gallery hopping or riding the Skyline gondola for outstanding views of this unusually scenic city. Tonight we celebrate our New Zealand adventure over a farewell dinner at a local restaurant
Meals: Breakfast
We depart this morning for the airport and our return flights home
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- Grand Millennium Auckland, Auckland / Days 3-4 / Superior First Class
- Millennium Hotel Rotorua, Rotorua / Days 5-6 / Superior First Class
- Scenic Hotel Te Pania, Napier / Day 7 / First Class
- Bolton Hotel, Wellington / Days 8-9 / Superior First Class
- Rydges Latimer Square, Christchurch / Day 10 / Superior First Class
- Scenic Hotel Franz Josef Glacier, Franz Josef Glacier / Days 11-12 / First Class
- Millennium Hotel Queenstown, Queenstown / Days 13-15 / Superior First Class
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