So I got back from this tour on Tuesday and had the most amazing experience that I never thought possible. I travelled alone and was a little weary at first but from day 1 I made some great life long friends from all over the world.

NZ is the most beautiful country and I will definately be going back. I did a fair few of the optionals and they also were amazing. We had Pumbaa and Richie as our guides and were both really cool guys with lots of knowledge about NZ. The places we visited were all fantastic as was 90% of the accomodation. Awesome value for money but do some budgeting for the optionals, the great ones aren't cheap.

Queenstown was a big highlight for everybody and we certainly made good use of our time there. Skydiving, canyoning swinging, you name it we did it!

I could say so much about this tour so if you have any questions email me at jbutterworth84@hotmail.com. If you are considering this tour, just do it!!!

hi,
sound like you had a fantastic time. i am just wondering if u have a travel log and photos that i could see.

i wanna do this tour.

look for to your reply.

thanks

I'm thinking of doing this trip on my own next year. Were there many other people in your group that came solo?

I'm doing this tour on my own starting from the 27th of December and finishing the 10th of January. I'm doing it on my own and am a bit worried about what it's going to be like doing this tour alone. Do you have any advice for me?
Thanks Lauren

Over New Years that should be fun!

I'm doing one over Halloween. Do they celebrate it in NZ?

Hey
I just finished NZ Grand Adventurer on the 19th of aug and i have to say was one of the best times of my life. And we had Richie as our bus driver too

I'm thinking of a NZ trip for january, althogh just the "northern highlights" as that is all i'll have time for. I've done a few europe contikis, and I'm wondering if the mix of people is about the same. What would you say the average age, guy/girl ration, and solo traveler count was for your trip? Also where were most people from?

thanks

Joanna,

Can you tell us how much you spent while you were over there? Give us an idea on how much to budget for! =D

I spent about $1500 not including my optional extras - this was mainly on food and alcohol as we partied quite hard, i also bought presents for people aswell.

The girl guy ratio on ours was ridiculous. Out of 50 people about 40 were girls! Most of the people on it were from Aussie, mainly Melbourne but we had Irish, English, American and Canadian.

It was an awesome trip and I'd highly recommened it. i want to go back!

So far I know of 17 people going on ours and its pretty much half half with guys/girls.