New Zealand Self Drive
15 Night 16 Day
Tour Plan
Day 01 - Arrive Auckland
Upon arrival at Auckland airport, complete customs and immigration formalities. Transfer to your hotel and check in. Overnight at your hotel in Auckland.
Day 02
Hole in the Rock Cruise
Day 02 - Auckland : Bay of Islands
After breakfast, proceed on your own to collect yourself drive car to the nearest collection point to your hotel for your exclusive use until the end of the package tour. Then proceed to enjoy the Bay of Islands program by self-drive. You can also do the Hole in the Rock Cruise upon arrival (includes a return ferry ride to Russell).Overnight at your hotel in Bay of Islands.
Day 03
Cape Reinga 90 Mile Beach Tour
Day 03 - Bay of Islands
After breakfast, day is free at leisure for optional tours, we highly recommend you to do Cape Reinga Wanderer 90 mile beach tour. (Kindly note that 90 mile beach tours are conducted on shared vehicles that are driven by skilled drivers who negotiate with the waves on the beach as there is no road to drive on this route).Self drive cars are not allowed to be driven on this route. Overnight at your hotel in Bay of Islands.
Day 04
Cathedral Cove
Day 04
Hot Water Beach
Day 04 - Bay of Islands : Coromandel
After breakfast, check out from the hotel and drive towards Coromandel Coast. Visit the Hot water beach and Cathedral cove on your own .Overnight at your hotel in Coromandel Coast area.
Day 05
Polynesian Spa
Day 05
Waitomo Glow Worm Caves
Day 05 - Coromandel-Waitomo Glow Worm Caves-Rotorua
After breakfast, check out from the hotel and proceed towards Coromandel-Matamata-Waitomo-Rotorua based on Self Drive own program. Visit the Hobbiton Movie Set from the Lord of the Rings movies in a fascinating two-hours guided tour. Later visit Waitomo for the Glow worm Cave tour. Later reach Rotorua and check in. After check in, proceed to Polynesian Spa. Overnight at your hotel in Rotorua.
Day 06
Lakeland Queen Cruise
Day 06
Te Puia
Day 06
Zorbing
Day 06 - Rotorua
This morning, have breakfast on the Lakeland Queen Cruise. Later proceed, for s Te Puia and its Thermal Valley of roaring geysers, steaming rivers and boiling mud pools. Later drive to the Zorbing grounds where you can do the traditional Dry or the thrilling wet Zorbing. Overnight at your hotel in Rotorua.
Day 07 - Rotorua-Auckland-depart Auckland-Air-Nelson
After breakfast, check out from your hotel and proceed towards Auckland based on self-drive own program. Reach the Auckland airport car drop depot and drop off the rental car there. Later proceed for your domestic flight to Nelson .Arrive Nelson. Pick up your rental car from airport depot and drive your vehicle to your hotel and check in .Overnight at your hotel in Nelson.
Day 08
Tonga Island Marine Reserve Cruise
Day 08 - Nelson-Able Tasman-Nelson
After breakfast, proceed to visit the Wilsons Abel Tasman National Park. Board the Vista Cruise into Tonga Island Marine Reserve. Walk over a forested saddle and around the Bark Bay waterfall trail, crossing the new swing bridge beside Bark Bay Falls. Overnight at your hotel in Nelson.
Day 09
Whale Watching Cruise
Day 09 - Nelson-Kaikoura
After breakfast, check out from your hotel and proceed for the Whale watch cruise in Kaikoura to witness the exciting giant sperm whale. A typical Whale watch tour may encounter New Zealand Fur Seals, pods of dusky dolphins and the endangered wandering Albatross. Overnight at your hotel in Kaikoura.
Day 10
Optional Scenic Flight at Mount Cook with Snow Landing
Day 10 - Kaikoura : Mt.Cook (optional scenic flight within Mt.cook)
After breakfast, check out and drive to Mt. Cook region. Upon arrival at Mt. Cook make your own way to the office for the scenic flight for 20 mins, including snow landing. Sweep through the rugged high country landscape of the Ben Ohau Mountain Range to a landing site on a snow field high in the mountains. Later check in at your hotel and overnight at your hotel in Mt. Cook.
Day 11
Glacier Explorers
Day 11
Onsen Hot Pools Candle Light Package
Day 11
Puzzling World
Day 11 - Mt.Cook (Glacier explorers) Queenstown
After breakfast, proceed to witness the close encounter with New Zealand's largest glacier, the Tasman Glacier. Glacier Explorers is the only tour of its kind in New Zealand with the only accessible glacial lakes containing ice bergs in the world. Later proceed to Queenstown where you can visit puzzling world enroute. On arrival, check in to your hotel. In the evening proceed for onsen hot pools (candle light package).Overnight at your hotel in Queenstown.
Day 12
Doubtful Sound
Day 12 - Queenstown-Doubtful sound-Queenstown
After breakfast, proceed for a full day Doubtful Sound Cruise tour. Your day begins in Manapouri with a cruise across the picturesque Lake Manapouri followed by a trip across New Zealand's most expensive road over Wilmot Pass, pausing along the way to experience the dense Fiordland rainforest and view Doubtful Sound glistening far below. In Doubtful Sound, you will board a spacious, purpose built catamaran for cruising through this pristine fiord. Later, return back to Queenstown and overnight at your hotel in Queenstown.
Day 13
Luge Ride
Day 13
Quad Bike Tour
Day 13
Shotover Jet
Day 13
Skyline Gondola
Day 13 - Queenstown
After breakfast, self-drive passengers proceed to Shotover jet base. Take a unique breath-taking ride through dramatic and narrow canyons, and hold on tight for Queenstown's only exhilarating full 360 degree spins and beyond. Later, proceed for off road explorer Quad Tour(including riding gear).Post lunch time please make your own way to Skyline Gondola Ride and one Luge ride-located an easy five minute walk from central Queenstown. Skyline Queenstown offers awe-inspiring views of the region and an abundance of entertainment and adventure. Overnight at your hotel in Queenstown.
Day 14
Glacier Helihike
Day 14
Glacier Hot Pools
Day 14 - Queenstown-via Wanaka-Franz Josef
After breakfast, check out from the hotel and make your own way to the office of the Guided Heli Hike Tour. The Franz Josef Glacier helicopter tour is a once in a lifetime experience that should not be missed. After a thrilling flight, you will land on the glacier, ready to undertake a three hour guided glacier hike. Later in the evening make your own way to the Glacier Hot Pools for your enjoyment at the main pools .Immerse yourself in a choice of 3 invitingly warm public pools under nature's leafy canopy. Overnight at your hotel in Franz Josef.
Day 15 - Franz Josef-Greymouth-Christchurch
After breakfast, check out from your hotel and self-drive to Christchurch and check in at your hotel. Overnight at your hotel in Christchurch.
Day 16 - Depart Christchurch
After breakfast, check out from your hotel then self-drive to the airport depot to drop off your self-drive vehicle and then catch your flight back to India.