New Zealand Touring with a private driver
Come and tour New Zealand with us, allow us to take you to the best scenic places and show you the finest attractions to enjoy while you’re here on your dream New Zealand holiday.
We have been in business for 8 years both pre covid and post covid. Since our borders re opened we have been booked out for months in advance usually,and taking many satisfied clients from the USA and Canada,Singapore and Thailand and a few from India on their dream trip of a lifetime down to New Zealand.We can provide phone numbers of clients for referrals upon request,or check out our reviews on trip advisor,you will be glad you found our website.
Our experienced tour drivers are all mature senior aged born and bred kiwis all fully vaccinated against Covid 19. We use executive 12 seater Mercedes Sprinter vans or late model SUV vehicles depending on the size of your group. Vehicles are exclusively for your group only (we won’t mix random strangers together).
Let us create you an itinerary that showcases the best of our country from genuine local knowledge.
We specialise in New Zealand private guided tours
We specialise in private small group tours around NZ. We offer a driver and discreet comfortable vehicle exclusively for yourselves (from just 1 or 2 people up to 14 passengers per vehicle).
All our tour drivers are:
- Police checked
- Fully licensed New Zealanders with extensive experience driving private tours on NZ roads
- Passionate for showing visitors the beauty and outstanding scenic spots and attractions on offer
We do our best to ensure your once in a lifetime trip to New Zealand is a fantastic experience and something you will remember forever. View our Facebook page to view photos and posts from recent tours, or view the gallery images here and check out our reviews on Trip Advisor.
How we run our private tours around New Zealand
We can meet you on arrival at any airport in New Zealand, or any other location you choose, (we can start in any town, not just the main centres). We drive you around New Zealand or just one island, showing you all the finest attractions and excursions along the way, as well as some beautiful quieter spots that our experience and local knowledge can take you to see that the larger bus company tours either cant get into or dont know exist. Our same driver will be with you for your entire trip, you wont be passed on to different drivers in different regions.
Depending on the length of time you have available for your travel, we will design a NZ tour itinerary to suit your time frame. You can start and finish your road trip in different cities and fly back to your city of departure (which is what most clients do if doing both islands with us) or you can travel back to your starting city with us if you choose.
You will need to allow a minimum of 15 days, 14 nights accommodation if you wish to experience most of the whole country (both the North Island and the South Island) on a full road trip with us. However, it’s more relaxed and with less daily moving if you can spend 21 nights ending day 22. To do both islands in these 15 days does mean moving accommodation mostly daily. If you don’t have that long, then we suggest you just visit either the North island or the South Island during your road trip. Flying between the islands and back again when doing the whole country is a more expensive option as we need 2 vehicles and drivers to accommodate that. However, we can quote for that if you dont have enough time to do the 14 nights minimum we suggest, by doing it that way you will only get to see parts of each island.
Our fixed guided tours price includes our private driver and all his and the vehicles costs including fuel and including drivers accommodation and all taxes.
Get an experienced private tour guide to drive you in New Zealand
Our driver/guide will ensure you discover as many must see attractions during your tour with us as possible, and depending on your requirements we may pre book some (such as helicopter scenic flights or boat cruises or entry to some larger attractions). Pre-book our service and relax knowing we will be there to meet you on time for your arrival at any airport in New Zealand, or other pick up location youve given us. You will have the services of our driver/guide available to you all day, subject to New Zealand law for driver rest time requirements.
Send us an email stating where you arrive and depart from and what time, and how many are in your group and let us price you a tour to best suit your timeframe including both islands or just one island, and let us take the stress out of driving while you relax and enjoy seeing the best New Zealand has to offer with a locals knowledge of where to show you.
What vehicles do we have for small group tours?
Hyundai Santa Fe Elite, or Toyota Highlander Hybrid SUV vehicles are normally used for just 2 or 3 passengers for comfortable touring, and larger Mercedes Sprinter vans are used for bigger groups of 4 or more people.
Private and discreet NZ chauffeur drivers and vehicles
Professional, private and discreet our vehicles do not have sign writing on them and are booked for your exclusive use, not shared with other passengers.
Not included in our fees are:
- Your own accommodation costs
- Your meals and refreshments
- Your excursions or entry fees to attractions or your spending money.
We will advise attractions entry costs in your itinerary, and we tell you what nights you need to stay overnight in which town so you can book your own level of accommodation in those towns yourselves via booking.com or similar sites.
Luggage carrying is limited to 1 suitcase and 1 small carry on bag or purse per person, as we don’t use trailers or roof boxes on our vehicles, so your luggage has to fit in the rear cargo area of the van itself. Laundry facilities are available in most accommodation options throughout New Zealand.
*If you have children aged 7 years or younger travelling then New Zealand law requires a booster seat or baby seat be used. Please advise us of this at the time of your enquiry as we will have to supply a seat to suit your child’s age and a hireage cost is required for these.
What our people say about our tours
Let us create you a customised NZ tour itinerary
Once you book, after payment of a deposit we can then take the time to create a specific itinerary, customised for you that perfectly suits your timeframe for your tour around New Zealand. The itinerary advises what towns or cities we require accommodation in.
You then book your own desired level of accommodation in those locations. Or if you have already pre booked your accommodation we will try to design a tour itinerary to work in with your pre-booked stops. It is best to let us suggest where we overnight in order to allow the tour to flow and you to see as much of the country as possible in your timeframe as our roads take a lot more hours to drive between destinations than most visitors think its going to!
NZ CRUISE SHIP EXCURSIONS
We provide day trip excursions from the ports of Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Picton, Nelson, Christchurch. (subject to availability, at peak times single port days are at times not possible) We also do multi port excursions where we meet you at each port (both islands) and provide you shore excursions in each port of your cruise just exclusively for your group not shared with other passengers.
We can provide suggested day trips in each port or simply take your group exclusively to something you already want to do, just let us know and we can quote or suggest day tour options as required for the above ports.
WE CAN OFFER TOURS AROUND ANYWHERE IN NEW ZEALAND (BOTH ISLANDS)
TOUR AUCKLAND TO ROTORUA 1 AND 2 NIGHT TOURS (customised to suit you)
We collect you from your Auckland accommodation and create an itinerary that suits your couples or groups walking ability or adventure your seeking. Remember its just yourselves and our driver in our vehicles exclusively for you, not random public to make up the numbers.
Typically our tours take clients on day 1 from Auckland to Spellbound glow worm caves near Waitomo, before continuing on to Rotorua arriving in evening.
The next morning we usually visit Te Puia geothermal park where you can see New Zealands highest spurting geyser, a kiwi bird in the nocturnal kiwi house and traditional maori art and crafts being made as well as an excellent buffet lunch available at their cafe.
After lunch, options we can do depend on the group but can include visiting the Redwoods Tree Walk then the Gondola and luge ride, before returning back to your Auckland accommodation point arriving that evening day 2.
If staying 2 nights we also have options for day 3 that can include either taking a River Rafting on the Kaituna river, where you go over a 7mtr high waterfall in the raft (the worlds highest commercially rafted waterfall) Or You could do a Rotorua Canopy tours zipline Which is like a flying fox up in the treetops of hundred year old native forest Or if not wanting that type of adventure you may prefer to visit the Agrodome or perhaps just a visit to Hobbiton after a morning stroll lakeside in Rotorua first before returning to Auckland late afternoon day 3.
We can provide a quote to do whatever it is you wish to enjoy on this mini break away,(and it can be for longer and take in more than just Rotorua if wanted).
Let us know if wanting a quote for any of the above or any other destinations your wanting to visit from Auckland or any areas around NZ over a few days and we can quote to go anywhere you wish.
GREYMOUTH to FRANZ JOSEF to QUEENSTOWN
This is one of our popular routes we offer for our overseas clients and agents.
We collect clients off the Tranz Alpine train from Christchurch at Greymouth station at 1.05pm on arrival, we then take them to see Hokitika and the countries Jade carvers in action before heading to Hokitika Gorge, one of the most stunning places every Kiwi should see. Then we continue to Franz Josef Glacier for the night.
Next morning the clients usually do a scenic helicopter flite for 30 mins that includes a snow landing before we head off on Haast pass to Wanaka and then on to Queenstown arriving late afternoon. Several stunning scenic stops are done en route to Wanaka
We can simply end here in Queenstown on evening of day 2 or we can quote to continue day 3 with a visit to Glenorchy (Lord of the Rings film locations) and probably New Zealands most stunning scenic drive, or we can even quote to drive you to Milford Sound, Te Anau,or back from Queenstown to Christchurch via Mt Cook, Tekapo, Oamaru to see the penguins parade just depends how many days you want.
Let us know if youd like a quote for any of these areas also and for how many you have in your group, and where youd like us to start and end with you.
We know all the most epic spots to show you around New Zealand, we are all born and bred Kiwis based in both islands. We would love to have you on board and guarantee you will have a quality experience if you come with us!