Overall a brilliant tour with fantastic locations and a lovely guide. Hobbiton was fantastic and accessible to all audiences - even those who haven't seen the films! Highly recommend getting a pie at the end. We'd originally booked Wai o Tapu which ended being closed but the tour company notified us well in advance and offered us this tour instead. Te Puia was fantastic with equal parts cultural, geographical and ecological learning experiences. Mark, our guide, had to contend with major traffic difficulties (highway closure) but dealt with it brilliantly. He found diversions and contacted all the tour stop teams to ensure tours could go ahead a little later. Despite 40mins - 1hrs delay on the road we didn't lose any time on the tours and still had the full experience. Thank you! We had a wonderful time and would highly recommend. It's a long day tour, and there will be long stretches in a minibus, but it is worth every minute to get to see so much.

It was a fun day. Rained the whole time we were at Hobbiton but that no one’s fault. Cam and John were informative guides during the journey down. We didn’t feel rushed at Hobbiton and the movie sets are really amazing. We found Wai-O-Tapu underwhelming. Our ticket said fully guided tour but it was self guided. We were given a certain amount of time which was adequate but not what was stated on the ticket. The so called lunch stop At Wait-O-Tapu pools and was not the lunch stop we’d been advised of previously. It’s a souvenir shop and a cafe, with not much to offer food wise. As a Coeliac there was nothing I could eat and I was relieved that I’d packed some rice crackers to eat, otherwise I’d have not eaten at all and it was a very long day. Our guides had snacks but nothing gluten-free so I couldn’t eat them. If you have dietary issues , make sure to bring your own food.

c'était magnifique !! magique !! et Grant notre guide était avenant, sympathique et discutait de tout...on a même pu faire un arrêt rapide à la fin car il tenait à nous faire comprendre où exactement se trouve Rotorua, à comprendre l'importance et la magnificence de l'endroit !! c'était génial !!! merciiiiiiii