Reviews of Three Week Best of New Zealand Vacation Package

The trip was amazing and we still can't believe how much we managed to fit in a short space of time! I of course will recommend your services to anyone who I know is intending to travel as it created a super stress free holiday!

We highly recommend First Light Travel to organise any NZ adventure. We are from the Uk, and visited Aus, NZ and Fiji over a 6 week period during October & November.
We organised our accommodation and activities in Aus and Fiji, but wanted expert local knowledge for our 3 week visit to NZ without paying double commission to UK and NZ agents!
Michelle Srzich was outstanding in listening to our wish list, and then providing suggested accommodation and activities for our trip! We had a couple of back and forths and ended up with a bespoke trip that we had compiled from stories we had from friends who had visited NZ.
A key requirement was to spend a minimum of 2 nights in each location, so that we had time to explore and experience the places we visited rather than just passing through! The trip worked out exactly as planned apart from our boat trip from Kaikoura to see whales. A helicopter is sent out each morning to see if the whales were playing ball! Unfortunately they were not on the day we had planned! We were offered the chance to rebook or receive a refund! We chose the latter, and FLT were able to refund this! The highlights of our trip were:

• Queenstown, TSS Ernslaw boat trip across the lake
• Mt Cook, glacier walk and visit to “The Old Mountaneers” restaurant in Mt Cook Village.
• Return Train trip from Christchurch to Arthur’s Pass
• Kaikoura dolphin boat trip
• Bleinham vineyard cycle tour
• Edwin Fox historic boat museum visit in Picton
• Ferry crossing from Picton to Wellington
• Lake Taupo and Hukka falls visit
• Rotorua - Waiotapu thermal Park

This was "the trip of a lifetime!" New Zealand is a unique country. The scenery and terrain are so varied and close together. Everyone we met was so friendly and eager to make our visit memorable. Everywhere we went was clean and neat and demonstated a definite "pride of place." 

The helicopter ride, the tour through the countryside in Wanaka, the floatplane trip to Orakei Korako and the Doubtful Sound excursion were definte highlights. The Maori experience, the Black Swan, sitting under a tree listening to the tui birds at the Boatshed provided memories we won't forget.