Cruise Ship Shore Excursions & Tours

Save money over the cruise lines own shore excursion programs as well as travel in much smaller groups. We offer passengers on cruise ships a range of shared tours in most of the ports of call in New Zealand and Australia. We have a great selection to suit all interests and budgets, from general sightseeing, geothermal sights, Maori culture, adventure and special interest tours.

Standard tours are priced per person and usually include all entry charges for locations visited. Some Standard tours are also available as Exclusive tours which allows you to book the tour just for your own party - prices will be given if this is an option.

When you book places on our standard tours you will be travelling with others from your cruise ship.

We currently offer Standard Tours from Bay of Islands, Auckland, Tauranga, Napier, Wellington, Picton, Christchurch, Akaroa and Dunedin in New Zealand. In Australia we currently offer Hobart, Burnie, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin and Cairns and more tours and activities will be added in the other ports that you see listed on our web site in the coming weeks.

Even if you travelling solo or as a couple, you can still find others to share your shore excursions with, so check out our Tour Share feature. Once you have registered on the site you can then view Tour Share posts from others on your cruise and also create your own postings.

Our Private Tours allow you to book a suitable tour vehicle and driver/guide for your party so that you have total flexibility to see and do just what you want. The cost is based on the duration of the tour and type of vehicle, which range from luxury Rolls Royce limousines to minivans, minibuses and small coaches.

These Private Tours do not include any destination or activity charges, but our experienced tour consultants can create an itinerary to suit your interest and budget, and add these to your account, so the tour is 100% matched to your requirements, and best of all there is no additional charge for this service.

We do recommend that you let us plan your itinerary and pre-book tickets for any destination or activity as availability can often be a problem if you have not pre-booked.

Group Tours offer you the chance to book tours for bigger groups travelling together, with itineraries that are not offered as Standard tours. Group tours are priced according to the number of people in the group and are usually planned for groups from 10 to 40 persons or more. Group tours are usually fully inclusive of all entry fees.

If your own group is even larger than this we can arrange a selection of tours that you can offer the group members, allowing them to select their own preference. Not everyone has to do the same tour.

We can handle all the bookings and payments for you, so we take the stress out of being the group leader or travel agent. Once we have set up your group members in our database, they can then log in to view just the tours you want to offer and make their selections. It could not be easier.

Prices will depend on the size of the group, so please contact us for a quotation if the itinerary you require is not listed, and we will create one to suit.

We are now offering self drive rental cars in a number of ports in New Zealand for passengers on cruise ships.

In many ports we have a selection of cars available for self-drive so look at the port of call page to see the options or search for self drive tours in the interest search box.

We can also pre book your activity tickets so all is ready when you arrive at the port of call to collect your rental car.

For cruise ship passengers who would like to experience the ports of call from a different perspective, we now offer an increasing range of fixed wing and helicopter flight seeing options.

Using fully certified passenger flight operators, you can now book anything from a short 5 minute flight experience up to a full day flying adventure.

Select from a range of options that could include fixed wing modern aircraft, vintage biplanes, World War 2 aircraft or modern day jets.

For cruise ship passengers visiting New Zealand and Australia you can now purchase all of your destination activity tickets in advance.

Ports of call we cover include the Bay of Islands, Auckland, Tauranga, Napier, Wellington, Picton, Christchurch, Akaroa and Dunedin in New Zealand.

Please note that the Experiences Ticket cost does not usually include transfers to and from the destination from the cruise port. You will need to make your own arrangements for this. Or you could book one of the rental cars we list on the web site.

In Australia we currently offer options in Hobart, Burnie, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Cairns. We will be adding new tours and activities in the other ports of call in Australia in the coming weeks.

These will include Albany, Brisbane, Broome, Bunbury, Cooktown, Darwin, Newcastle, Freemantle, Townsville, Yorkeys Knob and Peneshaw.

So if you are traveling independently by self drive rental car, have a look at the Experiences tab on each port to see what you could do.