Ahipara Luxury Travel

Ahipara Luxury Travel is a luxury destination management company.

We deal with VIPs, luxury corporate events, and independent travellers who are not satisfied with standard product.  We focus - in addition to accommodation - on what people do during the day.  This ranges from custom events, experiences and tours through to business meetings and even real estate viewings.  We use publicly available activity providers where these are of a standard acceptable to our clients.  We also have our own line-up of private guides who have a successful life outside tourism.  We are, however, more than a tourism company - we provide a personal service to our clients, making New Zealand work according to their needs.  Whatever those needs may be.

We have been in business since 2001 and continue to rack up New Zealand firsts every year - windsurfing with Olympic gold medallists, participating in local yacht races, flexibly-managed heli-itineraries, historical re-enactments, walking around a winery with the award winning owner and winemaker, private niche tours, etc.  Our latest one was a highly successful last-minute arrangement of heli-eeling!  We're not sure if that will ever have been done before.

We were given permission to use our name by Roma Marae, the senior marae at Ahipara, at the southern end of 90-Mile Beach.  We are proud of our deep connection with Maori and the Maori capability of our company is unsurpassed. 

Real people, real experiences 

We focus on reality.  Our clients meet real people, not tourism experience providers.  Sometimes the two can be the same thing, but not always.  For example, Lydia Bradey, the first woman to make it to the summit of Everest without oxygen is a mountaineer.  And Grant Taylor owns and runs a vineyard and is probably the single largest factor in the growth of Central Otago as a premium winegrowing region.  They both have lives outside tourism, are high achievers, are interesting as well as interested in people.  Our guides are real, deeply knowledgeable and enjoy being with people.  We are all here for pleasure, as well as business.  

We are owner-operated and can take an uncompromising attitude to product quality and destinational knowledge.  We are not a booking agency.  We take the time to understand each of our clients and then we make sure we deliver exactly what is wanted.  Where it does not exist, we create it.  Why should you compromise?  We don't.