From NZD $3222 per person
Day 1: Arrive ChristchurchKia Ora and welcome to New Zealand. On arrival to Christchurch Airport you will be met by A2B Luxury Lines and transferred by private vehicle to your accommodation.
Peppers Clearwater Resort is located 15 minutes from the city centre, Set in beautiful grounds with stunning waterfront views, and an 18-hole championship golf course which is home to the New Zealand PGA.
Accommodation: Peppers Clearwater Resort, Lakeside Room, 1 Night Day 2: Christchurch/ Greymouth / Fox Glacier (4.5hr train + approx 204km) This morning enjoy breakfast in your hotel before being met by A2B Luxury Lines and transferred by private vehicle to Christchurch Train Station.
Today you will board the TranzAlpine scenic train departing from one coast of New Zealand and arriving at the other. Your train journey is 223.8 kilometres long and takes just four and a half hours. There are 16 tunnels, and 5 viaducts, the highest being the Staircase standing at 73 metres. From your carriage you’ll see the fields of the Canterbury Plains, beautiful gorges and river valleys of the Waimakariri River. The spectacular Southern Alps and the lushness of Beech rain forest. An open air viewing carriage allows you to get even closer to the stunning scenery and provides many opportunities to photograph your favourite spots. There’s a lot to look forward to before arriving at your destination.
On arrival to Greymouth Train Station collect your Budget rental car and travel South to Fox Glacier.
FOX GLACIER - originally named Albert, after Queen Victoria of England's consort, Fox was renamed after the Premier of New Zealand who visited the Glacier, Sir William Fox. Framed by rich green bush, Fox Glacier runs down the valley, framed by mountains that rise behind it. It is said the best view is at sunset with the various hues of light reflected onto the ice and surrounding peaks.
Accommodation: Te Weheka Inn, Standard Room, 2 Nights Day 3: Fox GlacierThis morning enjoy cooked breakfast at your accommodation before hitting the glacier!
This morning join Alpine Guides Fox Glacier Ltd for their ‘Fox It Up Ice Climbing Adventure’
This day long experience introduces the adventurous to the exhilirating sport of ice climbing, on the spectacular ice walls in the lower part of the Fox Glacier. Your professional guide will tailor the day to offer variety and challenge to the novice and expert alike. Before heading to the ice you will be equipped with specialised mountaineering boots, crampons, ice axes and technical gear.
Guides who instruct on these days receive special training to ensure they teach skills in the correct order so you advance quickly. You will be surprised by the quick progress that you make. The maximum guide to customer ratio is 1:4 ensuring that you receive close personal attention.
There are many steep walls to challenge you and you will quickly master basic cramponing and ice axe techniques. The adrenaline will start to flow as you challenge yourself with longer and steeper pitches. Using ice tools and the front points of your crampons, you climb vertical and at times, overhanging ice walls and pinnacles. Your movements may seem quite daunting initially but there is no danger, as at all times you are secured by a top rope attached to your harness.
This adventure will be an experience you never forget and may just inspire you to spend time in the mountains. Accommodation: Te Weheka Inn, Standard Room Day 4: Fox Glacier / Wanaka (approx 269km)Enjoy cooked breakfast at your accommodation. Depart Fox Glacier and continue your journey south via Haast Past and lake Hawea to Wanaka.
WANAKA - faces north across Lake Wanaka, to views of the surrounding mountains, which are often reflected on the Lake's surface on calm days. Poplars and willows grow around the Lake's edge, affording a colourful show during Autumn. Wanaka is best known for boating, fishing and skiing at the Cardrona and Treble Cone ski-fields.
Accommodation: Wanaka Springs, Superior King Room, 1 Night Day 5: Wanaka / Queenstown (approx 117km)This morning enjoy cooked breakfast before joining Southern Alps Air for their Siberia Experience.
Four hours of unique New Zealand Wilderness Adventure in Mount Aspiring World Heritage National Park. The original since 1975 and still the best! Scenic Aeroplane Flight: ake a 25-minute aeroplane flight into the remote Siberia Valley. Enjoy one of New Zealand’s best wilderness experiences with stunning views including rugged mountains, glaciers, mountain lakes, hanging valleys and vast rainforests. DOUBLE THE FLIGHT TIME of any similar offer and window seats for all. Remote Siberia Valley Landing: Retrace the steps of pioneers as you journey into the spectacular Siberia Valley in the heart of the Southern Alps. Towering mountains greet adventurers as they step from the Cessna aircraft onto the valley floor and set off towards the crystal clear waters of Siberia Stream and the walking track. Bush and Valley Nature Walk: The three-hour bush walk follows a well-formed track through river valleys and native beech forest. Hear birdsong and immerse yourself in nature while you pass mountain streams, rock formations, mossy tree trunks, native ferns and native birds, including the inquisitive fantail. Jet boat Safari: Rendezvous with the jet boat at the pick up point in the Wilkin Valley for a thrilling and scenic 30 minute MOUNTAIN RIVER journey back to Makarora.
Following your tour travel to ‘The Adventure Capital of the World’ Queenstown.
Accommodation: The Heritage Queenstown, Deluxe Lakeview, 3 Nights Day 6: Queenstown This morning enjoy cooked breakfast in your hotel. You will then be met by Dart River Jetboat Safari
for your Jet Boat Safari.
Depart hotel by coach for Glenorchy (about 45kms from Queenstown) along the Lake Wakatipu shoreline, one of the most scenic highways in the world. On arrival in Glenorchy you will begin your Dart River Safaris experience - a 4x4 back-road trip to “Paradise” and return journey to Glenorchy by jet boat (or vice versa) which will allow you to experience first hand some of the stunning locations which featured in the famous film, The Lord of The Rings.
Accommodation: The Heritage Queenstown, Deluxe Lakeview Day 7: Milford Sound Excursion This morning enjoy cooked breakfast in your hotel.
Today we will enjoy a full day tour to Milford Sound with Real Journeys, in the Fiordland National Park (coach transportation from Queenstown included). On arrival at Milford, a cruise on the fiord will take you to the Tasman Sea, allowing you to marvel at the size of this fiord, Mitre Peak and the Bowen Falls. In the afternoon, we return to Queenstown by scenic flight which will take you high over the mountains, glacial valleys, waterfalls, rainforest, coastline, rivers and lakes, before arriving back in Queenstown. Accommodation: The Heritage Queenstown, Deluxe Lakeview Day 8: Queenstown / Dunedin (approx 283km)This morning enjoy cooked breakfast in your hotel restaurant.
Depart Queenstown and travel to the Southern City of Dunedin. Your first temptations of the journey take you through the vineyards of the Gibbston Valley then the orchards of Cromwell. Don’t forget a stop at Mrs Jones for your travel treats. Continue through Clyde and the Dam on to Alexandra. Follow the Clutha River to Dunedin.
Dependant on your arrival time to Dunedin, you may wish to spend the city centre at your leisure.
Accommodation: Mercure Hotel Dunedin, Standard Room, 2 Nights Day 9 : DunedinThis morning enjoy cooked breakfast in your hotel.
Today travel with Monarch Wildlife Cruises to the Otago Peninsula.
The best of the Otago Peninsula and it’s wildlife
Cruise the length of the beautiful Otago Harbour with us; enjoy the Wildlife Cruise of spectacular Taiaroa Head and a scenic Otago Peninsula bus tour. You can include a guided tour of the award-winning Yellow Eyed Penguin Reserve or Royal Albatross Centre.
Accommodation: Mercure Hotel Dunedin, Standard Room Day 10: Dunedin / Oamaru / Christchurch (approx 362km)Cooked breakfast is included this morning in your hotel.
Depart Dunedin and travel North to the historical town of Oamaru. En route we recommend coming off the main road and visiting the Moeraki Boulders.
The Moeraki Boulders are a number of huge spherical stones, found strewn along a stretch of Koekohe Beach near Moeraki, a small settlement just south of Hampden on New Zealand's Otago coast. These boulders are grey-coloured septarian concretions which have been exposed through shoreline erosion from black mudstone coastal cliffs that back the beach. They originally formed in ancient sea floor sediments during the early Paleocene some 60 million years ago. The boulders weigh several tonnes and are up to three metres in diametre. Maori legend tells that the boulders are remains of calabashes, kumaras and eel baskets that washed ashore after the legendary canoe, the Araiteuru was wrecked at nearby Shag Point (Matakaea).
On arrival to Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony join their Behind the Scene’s day time tour.
This is an insight into the establishment of the Colony, our conservation and monitoring programs, and the lifecycle of our Blue Penguins. Visitors enter the breeding area and view the penguin’s natural environment. If there are penguins resident in our daytime viewing facility, the 'Blue Wing', visitors will see penguins in their nest boxes. However penguins come and go naturally so we cannot guarantee birds will be seen during the day.
Continue travelling north to Christchurch.
Accommodation: The Heritage Christchurch, Deluxe Room, 1 Night Day 11: Depart ChristchurchBreakfast is included this morning at your hotel. Dependant on your departure time you may wish to pick up some last minute gifts for friends and loved ones back home.
Today return your rental car to Christchurch airport before your departure flight. Price per person (includes 12.5% GST) From NZD $3222 pp 
Costs include:
- Accommodation in hotels as specified, share twin subject to availability.
- Goods & Services Tax 12.5%
- Budget rental car throughout (2/3 pax CDAR, 4 pax FDAR) – please refer to our on line tariff for terms and conditions of rental
- Admissions where stated
- Basic insurance (subject to insurance excess)
Costs exclude:
- Airfares National or International
- Airport Tax (Christchurch NZ$25.00pp, Auckland NZ$25.00pp or Rotorua NZ$5.00pp) subject to increase
- Personal expenses & tips
- Drinks during meals (except water/tea/coffee)
- Any items of personal nature
- Fuel for car
- Additional rental car charges
- Optional activities
- Insurance excess NZD 2812.50 including GST
- Excess can be reduced by purchase of the following package:
- Budget Protection Plan (BPP) - An additional payment of NZD 28.12 per day (inclusive of GST) reduces insurance excess of NZD 2812.50 to NZD 253.12 incl gst. For main car groups.
- Personal accident insurance is also included in this package. This is to be paid DIRECT to Budget Rental A Car at the commencement of hire.
Subject to:
- Subject to surcharges beyond our control
- Minimum of 2 passengers travelling
- Accommodation subject to availability
- Supplier surcharges as per our tariff
|
Outdoor NZ