- Leaving Perth @ 22:45
26/10/2013
- Arriving Queenstown @ 13:50
- Pick up rental Car
- Walter Peak dinner cruise @ 6:00 (booked)
- Stay @ Copthorne Hotel & Apartments (booked)
Optional: Hot tub, Queenstown Garden Frisbee golf
27/10/2013
- Skyline gondola Optional: Gondola Luge
- Lunch @ skyline restaurant (booked)
- Drive to Te Anau: 2 hours
- Stay @ Aden Motel (booked)
Eats: Miles Better Pies, Mainly Seafood (blue cod)
28/10/2013
- Gertrude saddle track (5-6 hours)
- Milford sound overnight cruise @ 4:30 (booked)
29/10/2013
- Milford sound underwater observatory
- Track to Key Summit
- Stay @ Aden Motel Te Anau (booked)
Optional: Wildlife centre
30/10/2013
- Drive to Wanaka (2'44')
- Rippon Vineyard (12-5)
- Mediterranean market
- Stay at Edgewater (booked)
Optional: Warbirds and wheels, Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World, Paradiso Cinema/Ruby Cinemas
Eats: Wana take away burgers, fish & chips. Sasanoki Japanese Kitchen, black peak gelato, Cafe Gusto
31/10/2013
- Deep Canyon (full day)
- Stay at Edgewater (booked)
1/11/2013
- Drive to Makaroa (48') Fantail Falls,Haast (1'39')Thunder Falls Haast River Valley Lake Matheson (1hr), stop at a restaurant with a world heritage building near Haast River for lunch(1hr),
- Drive to Fox Glacier
- Stay at Ivory Tower, Fox Glacier (booked)
2/11/2013
- Nimble Fox (full day)
- Stay at Ivory Tower, Fox Glacier (booked)
3/11/2013
Eats: Matheson Cafe (breakfast)
- Optional: glacier hot pool
- Drive to Hokitika
- Jade crafting factory
- Glowworm cave
- Stay at Hokitika @Birdsong (booked)
Eats: Village Bakers/Fat Pipis, Stella Cafe Hokitika
4//11/2013
- Drive to Arthur's pass
- Trek to
- Drive to Christchurch
- Visit Quake Center/Arctic Center
- Stay @ Vagabond, Christchurch (booked)
Optional: Ko Tane willowband reserve (4:30/5:30)
Eats: Pedro's House of Lamb,
5/11/2013
- Visit the other Quake Center/Arctic Center
- Drive to Kaikoura
- Dinner from Cods & Crayfish: 81 Beach Rd, Kaikoura
- Stay @ Albatross Backpacker Inn (booked)
6/11/2013
- Llama trekking
- Ohau point and Ohau fall: view seals
- Buy more crayfish
- Drive to Picton
- Return Rental Car
- Stay @ The Villa Backpackers Lodge (booked)
- Guided kayak half day
- Cruise to Wellington @ 2:pm
- Stay @ Downtown Backpackers (booked)
8/11/2013
- Visit Old St Paul's Cathedral & Parliament Buildings
- Cable car to Wellington Botanic Garden +/- Carter Observatory
- lunch: Nikau Gallery Cafe
- City to Sea Bridge
- Visit the national museum
- Stay @ Downtown Backpackers (booked)
Dinner at the crazy horse.
9/11/2013
- Pick up car
- Visit Mount Victoria & WETA
- Drive to Taupo
- Spa thermal park and Riverbank recreational and scenic reserve
- Stay @ Comfort Inn Cascades (booked)
10/11/2013
- Aratia Rapid @ 10am, 12am or 2pm
- Orakei korako cave and thermal park: the hidden valley
- Hangi cultural performance
- Stay @ red rock thermal (booked)
- Optional: Wingspan bird of prey, flight at 2pm
11/11/2013
- Drive to Hobbitton
- Hobbiton tour
- Drive to Waimoto
- Waimoto Cave
- Stay @ big bird B&B
12/11/2013
- Drive to Auckland
- Spookers Haunted Attractions
- One Tree Hill (Maungakiekie)
- Stardome & the Auckland Observatory
- Sky Tower
- Stay @Waldorf Bankside Serviced Apartments (booked)
Eat: Sky Tower Depot Eatery & Oyster Bar
Optional: drinks at My bar (12 Durham St E)
13/11/2013
- Visit Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
- Cruise
- Devonport
- Viaduct Harbour
- Stay @Waldorf Bankside Serviced Apartments (booked)
Eats: Soul Bar & Bistro
14/11/2013
- Flying out at 7:30am
