Experience the best New Zealand has to offer. Have your accommodation and transport to be pre-booked for you.

Day 1: Arrive Auckland
Transfer from airport included to your accommodation

Day 2: AUCKLAND - ROTORUA VIA WAITOMO
Today you leave Auckland stopping at Mt Eden a dormant volcano and the highest point of Auckland City with a huge 50 metre deep crater. The view for Mt Eden is spectacular and on a clear day you can see from coast to coast across the City. The Magic Bus heads out of Auckland towards Rotorua travelling through the Waikato a dairy-farming district and onto Waitomo. In Waitomo you can go into the caves and look at the glowing lights of the Glowworms. Your driver can book different activities on your behalf in Waitomo, from entrance to the caves to a ‘drop through’, abseil through the gloworms. You leave Waitomo in the afternoon to head to tonight’s over night stop in Rotorua. A must see in New Zealand is a Maori cultural show and Rotorua is the place to see one. An evening show with a traditionally cooked Hangi for dinner is available and
Magic passengers can get a special discount rate from their drivers.

Day 3: ROTORUA - TAUPO
Today you get the chance to hug a huge Redwood tree at Redwood Forest before heading on to check out Wai-O-Tapu thermal reserve home of geysers, hot pools and boiling mud, make sure you go into the park it’s well worth it. Heading onto Taupo you stop at Huka Falls on the Waikato River a waterfall throwing over 200,000 litres of water a second. If you feel like an adrenalin rush go for a jet boat ride guaranteed to clear your head and get the blood pumping, or sit and watch the boat as it powers down the river and turns at speed. You arrive into Taupo mid-afternoon and there are lots of options here from skydiving for a thrill or fishing if you want a peaceful afternoon and the chance to catch your dinner.

Day 4: TAUPO - WELLINGTON
After a drive alongside Lake Taupo which is the size of Singapore the Magic Bus heads into ‘Lord of the Rings’ country. You travel down the desert road home to Mt Doom or Tongariro as it was known before LOTR with its emerald lakes, hot pools, steaming vents and crater lakes used to full effect in Mordor. The New Zealand Army has its training base at Waiouru, which is on the way to Wellington and you may get to see some tanks manoeuvring through the town. As you arrive into Wellington you go for a drive up Mt Victoria for a view across New Zealand’s capital city, home to the aptly named ‘Beehive’ building that houses our government.

Day 5: WELLINGTON - NAPIER
The first stop this morning is Mt Bruce Wildlife Centre where you get the opportunity to view the Kiwi and Tuatara, two animals you can’t see anywhere else in the world. You arrive into Napier in the early afternoon. The town was destroyed in an earthquake in the 1930’s and re-built in ‘ Art Deco’ style. This afternoon there is a walking trail you could go on to checkout some of the fabulous buildings, or other possibilities include a wine tour, or take a trip to a local gannet colony.

Day 6: NAPIER - MT MAUNGANUI/TAURANGA VIA TAUPO & ROTORUA
Today you re-visit Taupo and Rotorua. As we head on to Rotorua you can go into the Agrodome and try one of the many activities before heading onto Mt Maunganui for a relaxing evening by the sea.

Day 7: MT MAUNGANUI/TAURANGA - AUCKLAND VIA THAMES
Today you travel through some unique towns. Waihi first which was home to a gold rush and then Paeroa whose claim to fame is a giant Lemon and Paeroa drink bottle. Be sure to grab a bottle of this to try as it’s a kiwi icon.

Day 8: End Auckland after breakfast

Please note: New Zealand Flexi -Touring packages are not ‘fully guided, group tours’.

These itineraries include transport (no guide will travel on the coach, but you will be met by hostel staff at each stop and transferred to your accommodation), YHA accommodation and optional activities (operated by local guides who are experts in their area). Everything is pre-booked for you and you are provided with details of each segment, so you do not have to worry about a thing! The advantage of Flexi-touring is that it is tailored to each person’s requirements, departs daily and you are not paying high costs to have a guide sitting on a coach with you.

YHA membership will be required to be paid AU$35 at time of booking