The Big Tiki

This trip was everything I hoped it would be AND MORE. Josh, our trip manager was fantastic! I couldn’t fault anything at all and we even had the worst weather but managed to have the BEST time. The food I ate, the places we visited, the activities that were optional and included were all wonderful. But mostly, New Zealand captured a piece of my soul, I loved every minute. I would recommend this trip to anyone looking at traveling NZ.

Trip manager & driver were excellent. Some of the accommodation on South Island wasn’t very good in terms of quality compared to previous Contiki trips I have been on. Included “special stay” at “ski lodge” was no where near up to standard and was essentially a small shed with 3 people crammed in to it.

Loved everything about my trip!

Great included activities, trip manager was amazing and made the trip a great experience!

I had just finished a 2month long trip around South East Asia with G Adventures and had no real clue about contiki and expected it not to live up to my last travel operator. I was definately wrong!! From the second I jumped on the bus with the music bouncing until I finished my tour I loved every minute. Contiki got it spot on with the time spent in each location and the tour manager couldn't have been any more knowledgeable about the country and activities along with places to eat and party or relax. Even our bus driver was hilarious and always joined in on the Craic. My onky recommendation is get off the fence if you are thinking maybe about a contiki tour and book it. You will not, repeat NOT forget it!!

Epic trip! Covering both the North and South islands of NZ I did everything I wanted to. I feel like what I did in 3 weeks it would take others months. Very detailed itinerary and also so stress free! Rae and John (Masso) made it so much fun and took care of anything we needed. Great leaders and would highly recommend them and Contiki to anyone else. Will definitely be travelling with you again! Thanks guys!

Good feedback is no feedback, cause that means the trip was perfect :)

Everything was amazing our trip manager and bus driver were incredible. The whole trip was amazing from start to finish. Everyone on the trip was so kind and caring and you make incredible friends. Our trip manager was amazing at giving advice and helping us out.

Everything I did I enjoyed, didn’t waiste any money anywhere! Everything was so much fun! Made great friends with complete strangers!

Je pense que c'était la meilleure façon de voir la Nouvelle-Zélande. J'aurais aimé rester un peu plus longtemps à certains endroits ou arrêter un peu plus pour des poses photos, mais c'était un très bon rapport qualité-prix. Beaucoup d'activités facultatives également et elles étaient toutes vraiment super!

Trip manager was average. The big tiki was AMAZING! 19 days through the north and south did not disappoint. I felt like i saw all of NZ and did everything from bungy jumping to wine tasting.

Totally value for money with the inclusions, accommodation and coach. The itinerary matched start to end and there were no shades of grey! Hannah and Dylan were honestly dream team, wouldn't change a thing! #Majestical

The tour was great, alot of fun. However our tour manager Bryce wasn't much help at the beginning to introduce everyone and get more involved with the group. We didn't do speed dating and the other introductory games like my previous contiki had done so was disappointed with that. Was also disappointed with the lack of involvement Bryce had in our contiki tour group. Perhaps running 4 tours back to back takes a toll on the manager. The people on our tour made it alot of fun and easy to enjoy the tour. Travelling can be quite daunting (I had my sister with me, but I can imagine solo travelling would be more daunting) so to then have to introduce yourself to 50 odd people with no help from the contiki team was hard. There was 1 of the travellers that made it easier by asking a series of different questions to other travellers and got some of us involved to get to know the people around us (But again, no thanks to Bryce).

There wasn't one part of our trip that we didn't enjoy and we saw so much of this beautiful country. We did things we never expected to do but when you're having this much fun you want to get as much out of the trip as possible- this was down to the product but also our driver and tour manager too.

Amazing! Definitely worth what you pay. There is no way my partner and I could’ve done this trip by ourselves for the same price. The included activities (milford sound, hobbiton and lauras farm just to name a few) are so amazing and awesome that its included. The hotels are all great and the team were amazing.

It was my first contiki tour and it was fantastic for the full 19 days

I loved it, it was a once in a lifetime experience

The inclusions for this trip (in comparison to a Australia contiki that I did previously) were not very good. “City tours” were 5 extra minutes on the bus telling us where the hotel was... Milford sound was the only inclusion I was truly impressed by. For the value of this trip I feel like a lot more could have been offered and it should not have been completely driven by having to fill your time with the extra activities.

The connections and also the in-depth knowledge made the whole trip that much better