Auckland Shore Excursions – Small, and senior-friendly.
VALUE FOR MONEY ALL-INCLUSIVE AUCKLAND SHORE EXCURSION TOURS AND TRIPS FOR CRUISE BOAT PASSENGERS
ALL prices in NZD (currently 1 NZD between 0.80 – 0.85 USD)
NZ Dollar is not Australian Dollar (AUD) !!!
Get the MOST from your short time in Auckland Port
WITHOUT long journeys sitting in a crowded bus!
Get your friends together…
we give a FREE TOUR to the “organiser” of 6+ person groups
#Rainforest #Wine-tasting #LUNCH #Honey-tasting #Sea-bird colony #our sheep farm #Afternoon tea
This tour is no more than 40 minutes from your boat
your AUCKLAND SHORE EXCURSION tour includes ALL of these:
…click on the photos to see more!
This Shore Excursion tour operates: 1 OCT – 30 APRIL
- Pick-up from boat and all inner city accommodation
- USUALLY: 9.15am….BACK BY 4.15pm
- …… see our FULL DAY tour if you have more time … (or ask about our MINI-TOUR if you have even less time! )
- Small group travel via our 10-seater mini bus, (for groups of upto 24pax, we organise a larger coach).
- BOOK -[or inquire]- via email
We have successfully hosted thousands of visitors during the 11 years of operating. Many of these folk have been off Cruise Boats and yearn to be hosted on a small and personalised tour. Most people don’t want to spend wasted time sitting in a bus traveling hours away from their boat. Everyone wants to experience something unique. And, who doesn’t want a tour that’s value-for-money?
When it comes down to service how do you really know what you will be getting? True, anyone can display a fancy website or an equally inviting brochure, but we let our guests tell it as it is, …and people are talking about our tour’s difference, because 80% of our business is through some form of referral.
Perhaps you may consider a Ship’s Tour to be “safer” because the tour is run through the Cruise Ship, but as to how much experience you’ll be getting may leave you wondering…
Surely, could I be getting something MORE ?
WHO you get to look after you for your excursion may also be of concern. Did you know that in New Zealand there are no Laws on who can become a New Zealand tour operator? Often a NZ tour guide who tells you about New Zealand, will NOT be NZ *born* (…let alone of Indigenous descent). It’s also highly likely these guides are “employees” too. So many people read other traveler comments about the guide they had on their tour, so in-turn you’re ever hopeful you’ll have the same guide (or not “that” guide!!). On our tour you have no worries about who will be hosting you…you get US… as we are the owner/operators!
We are also empathetic to the requirements of Seniors…there’s no hiking or swimming on this tour, (or standing around waiting while others in the group want to take a swim!)
…just take a look at what you can have if you took your Auckland Shore Excursion tour with us;
- EXPERIENCING the countryside, Kiwi hosting, hospitality & lifestyle, that New Zealand is so well-known for
- NOT NEEDING to travel great distances from your boat to see the “real” New Zealand (we’re just 40mins from Auckland!)
- RELAXING on a tour without the ever-consuming thought; “will we get back in time“
- visiting an ARRAY of attractions on the one tour
- doing an ALL-INCLUSIVE tour because you don’t want the hassle of where to find food, and don’t want to pay for “extras”
- (And, most importantly, especially in today’s economic climate), you’ll get a tour that’s VALUE-FOR-MONEY
#Rainforest #Wine-tasting #LUNCH #Honey-tasting #Sea-bird colony #our sheep farm #Afternoon tea
This tour is no more than 40 minutes from your boat
ALL prices in NZD (currently 1 NZD between 0.80 – 0.85 USD)
NZ Dollar is not Australian Dollar (AUD) !!!
You’ll be seeing the area where you are traveling to from a local-perspective because this is the region where our family has called “home” since 1922! We know LOTS of unique things for you to experience right on Auckland’s doorstep…We know these places because we are ourselves Auckland-BORN!! …Taking a tour with us will see you warmly looked after by us as owner/operators, (you are not passed on to employed “guides” of a big tour organisation). We want you to get the most out of your time in Auckland…(because our reputation as being Auckland’s most comprehensive tour, is to be upheld!).
We bring you into our own home and to our *private* sheep farm…(and this is something which NO OTHER AUCKLAND TOUR does)
…in fact, our farm is the only genuine working sheep farm where people have access to on an Auckland tour (and it’s NOT open to the general Public).
PLUS…we even offset your tour carbon emissions, by planting a tree in our farm’s own Registered sink-tank reserves, for every tour we do!
…as we hope you are seeing, our tours are GUARANTEED quite different from “the usual” shore tours currently on offer!
and…..we get you back on time!
IT’S NEVER HAPPENED…but in a worst scenario, we can easily get alternate transport to take you back to your ship
because you are never anymore than 40 minutes away !!
PLEASE NOTE:
The Auckland shore excursion for cruise boat passengers offered by Holland America Line
with the name ‘Coast to Coast’ is NOT Coast to Coast TOURS Ltd…
OUR tours are highly rated on 
and winners of Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence Awards for 2011 -AND- 2012
CHECK OUR AVAILABILITY TIMETABLE HERE
Get your friends together…
we give a FREE TOUR to the “organiser” of 6+ person groups
# Take in the panoramic views from the Waitakere Rainforest. We give a guided tour through the Arataki Information Centre, explaining points of interest with local knowledge and history…[many other Auckland tours just do "drop-offs" and have you look through on your own!]
# Visit Muriwai Beach, and the Takapu Gannet Colony. This is a world-famous visitor attraction, and the region where our family has lived since 1922…[there are no other tours which are operated locally, so with us you hear the history that many other 'visiting' tour operators have not ever experienced!]
# Enjoy honey-sampling at ‘BeesOnline’. Sample NZ’s most special Manuka Honey and other varieties…[usually, this is where we stop for lunch...your choice from the upmarket cafe menu, including wine/beer! Please note from 1 Feb 2011 BeesOnline is closed every Monday & Tuesday.
# Do wine-tasting at an award-winning winery. This is the Historic wine producing region of New Zealand.. [and again, we have many stories to tell because this is the region where we live!]
# Be welcomed into our ‘Motutara’ Homestead with a MAORI mihi (address). Have an overview on Maori culture, and look around our typical family home…(no other Auckland tour gives you the opportunity to get inside a real sheep farm Homestead!]
# Tour our woolshed and learn all about wool production on a New Zealand sheep farm.
No sheep farm “**shows**” here!! – we are a genuine working farm… [and our woolshed was built in 1930 and still has "original" equipment!]
>>> ARE YOU TRAVELING IN A LARGE GROUP?? <<<
For GROUPS [of upto 24pax] -or- by prior arrangement
Incorporate our ‘Kiwiana-themed’ lamb BBQ lunch at our FARM
This ‘themed’ lunch makes for a uniquely informative and interesting meal, and includes local wines and New Zealand beer, and HOMEMADE foods…(see menu below).
This is a “sit-down” meal, with ‘real’ cutlery, ‘real’ crockery (and unlike sitting in a room or a Hall) there is a ‘real’ view!
It’s also the chance for overseas people to talk to their hosts; (that’s us!), who are real sheep farmers as well. Over at our woolshed, we have an explanation on wool production in New Zealand.Bookings for our Kiwiana lunch are Essential!
Read independent write-ups about this Shore Excursion tour:
- http://richarddetrich.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/auckland-the-north-island/
- http://www.keithandluanna.com/auckland-new-zeeland.html
- http://www.keithandluanna.com/auckland-photos/
…and for Groups WE also make your shore excursion Carbon Neutral
Your tour also includes a complimentary Carbon Credit Native tree planting in our farm’s Native tree nursery;
a tree, growing in New Zealand, and a great feeling to know your shore excursion is sustainable.
Walk through our New Zealand Native garden. See our animals and birds….
Smaller groups can make their tour Exclusive [private]….
But PLEASE DO compare this Auckland Shore Excursion itinerary, the authentic experiences you will have,
and PRICE, with other Auckland tour companies.
ALL prices in NZ$ (we can accept US, exchange rate worked out on-the-day)
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