Why Choose Great Kiwi Trips?
See New Zealand Through Kiwi Eyes
New Zealand is easy to fall in love with. It's a little harder to work out how all the pieces fit together.
That's where we come in.
Great Kiwi Trips creates personalised journeys for independent travellers who want to see more of New Zealand than the standard highlights – without having to figure out every road, booking and connection themselves.
We're based here. We know the country, we know how it feels to travel around it, and we know that sometimes the best part of a trip is the place you hadn't originally thought about visiting.
Your trip, not our package
There's no set Great Kiwi Trips itinerary you have to fit into.
Tell us what you enjoy, how you like to travel, how much time you have and what you'd rather avoid. Maybe you're into food and wine, walking and wildlife, art and architecture, dramatic landscapes, small towns – or a slightly random combination of all of the above.
We'll build the journey around you.
That might mean taking the scenic route, adding an extra night somewhere that deserves it, swapping a well-known attraction for something a little more your style, or simply giving you enough breathing room to enjoy where you are.
We connect the dots
You can find plenty of information about New Zealand online. The tricky bit is turning all those possibilities into a journey that actually works.
We look at the bigger picture – where you want to go, how long you have, how you'll get around and what makes sense along the way.
Accommodation, activities, transport, flights, public transport, transfers and the little practical details can all be brought together into one coherent trip.
So instead of spending hours working out whether everything connects, you can concentrate on looking forward to New Zealand.
The details matter
A good New Zealand trip isn't just about ticking off the big sights.
It's knowing when a place is likely to be busy. Knowing which town is worth an overnight stay rather than a lunch stop. Knowing where a decent flat white is waiting. Knowing when the weather might change your plans – and having another option up our sleeve.
Those details come from experience.
And sometimes our advice is simply: don't rush it.
Independent travel, without doing it all yourself
Great Kiwi Trips is for travellers who want the freedom of travelling independently, but don't necessarily want to spend months researching and booking every part of the journey.
You'll have your own trip, at your own pace, with the freedom to enjoy each place in your own way – while we take care of the planning and logistics behind the scenes.
We simply take care of the complicated bits, so you don't have to.
A Kiwi in your corner
We're here in New Zealand, so we're not selling the country from a brochure on the other side of the world.
We're looking at your trip from the same side of the map as the people and places you'll be visiting.
That's what See New Zealand Through Kiwi Eyes means to us.
Not finding some secret version of New Zealand that nobody else knows about.
Just helping you experience the country in a way that feels personal, considered and genuinely yours.
Ready to start planning?
You don't need to have the whole trip worked out.
Tell us what you're thinking – even if it's just a rough idea of where you'd like to go and what you'd like to experience.
We'll help turn those ideas into a New Zealand journey that makese sense for you.