Doubtful Sound, Fiordland

We specialise in luxury tourism (6, 5 and 4+ star) focused on connecting you with New Zealand through special people, places and activities.  Truly special New Zealand holidays that you will remember for many years.  We don't just sell luxury accommodation.

What does this mean for you?

  • We understand, monitor, and have relationships with a wide variety of New Zealand accommodation, activity, and transport providers.  Some of these are commonly available, some are not.
  • We know who is performing, who isn't and what the latest changes of management mean.  We know this first-hand, not from the internet and not through other people
  • We regularly and consistently put together leading edge luxury tours of New Zealand for our clients from all around the world
  • We have the ability to create, innovate, and take things as far as you want. We don't just package what other people do
  • Every luxury tour starts with a blank sheet of paper as we build up our understanding of you.  We do not put together packages and then sell them to everyone as a "one size fits all"
  • We have for years been perfecting our ability to meaningfully connect our clients into the more important currents which define New Zealand
  • Over the years we have built up access to some very special people and places
  • We have a true in-country concierge service - responsive, intelligent and effective
  • Our pricing is detailed and transparent

We're not a booking agency - we're a global leader in innovative, personal, responsive and experiential tourism based in New Zealand.

Family - Super Luxury and Active

Example Itineraries

Family - Super Luxury and Active

A top-grade New Zealand itinerary designed for an active family with absolutely no limit on spending.

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Robert Moore, Indiana

Client Feedback

Self-Drive Top End & Adventures

Robert Moore, Indiana
Well I made it back in one piece and am now past the jet lag. Hope all is well at your end and I wanted to say how great the ininerary was and how...

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Our Staff

Kovandina - Russian Market Manager

Marina is responsible for Russian-speaking and East European markets.  A Russian national married to a Maori New Zealander, Marina has extensive experience in both outbound...

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Mount Nicholas Station, Queenstown, 100,000 acres of lakeside wilderness.  Good for heli-hikes, horse riding, and an extremely private simple homestead.

Mount Nicholas Station, Queenstown, 100,000 acres of lakeside wilderness. Good for heli-hikes, horse riding, and an extremely private simple homestead.

  • Mount Nicholas Station, Queenstown, 100,000 acres of lakeside wilderness.  Good for heli-hikes, horse riding, and an extremely private simple homestead.
  • Mountain Landing from the Jetty.  1,000 private acres, 7 beaches.  Close to the excellent fishing available from the Bay of Islands.  Extremely private, peaceful, and high quality accommodation.
  • A private Maori welcome.  Days can be spent exploring whatever aspect of Maori culture is of interest.  From an introduction (welcome) through to healing, songs, carving, food gathering and preparation, hunting, celestial navigation, spirituality etc etc
  • Heli-hike-jetboat in Mount Aspiring National Park.  An awesome remote day in pristine wilderness
  • Quad Bikes on 90-Mile Beach.  Kilometres and kilometres of surf, rocky promontories, and dunes which reach up 100 metres from the beach.  And almost no people....
  • Milford Sound from a helicopter.  The only way to see it, away from the cruise ships, buses and crowds.  The helicopter also lands on a glacier, the west coast and flies over a lot of beautiful remote terrain
  • Delani, after meeting guests at Bridal Veil Falls, Treetops Lodge
  • Tom Loughlin points out spots in the Ripia River.  Tom is an accomplished outdoorsman, search and rescue specialist, hunter and, most importantly, expert on Maori food.  He finds, prepares and cooks Maori delicacies for our clients.
  • Claremont Estate - a unique geology.  Firstly a beautiful high country station, secondly an elegant lodge and thirdly a place used by geology students for study.  We're not telling why!
  • Karekare Beach - where The Piano was filmed.  Only 40 minutes drive from Auckland centre and home to black sand, crashing surf, rainforest, cliffs, and several lovely walks.  From a flat one kilometre walk to a hilly eight kilometre loop.
  • What Makes an Iconic Trip?

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    What Makes an Iconic Trip?

    I was really pleased to be able to put this one together.  The brief was for 5 guys who had been everywhere, done everything.  They wanted extreme.  They wanted iconic NZ.  They wanted some real offroad self-drive in iconic scenery.  In terms of accommodation, they wanted either the best in the country or something basic...

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  • Shackleton & Selous

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    Shackleton & Selous

    Most of us travel professionals at the top end keep asking ourselves what makes travel special?  What makes a happy client?  What makes a seamless itinerary?  It is of course not a simple question and the many different people on this planet are delighted by many different things.  For some it can be a beautifully fitted out...

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  • It's Official - I'm not a Hobbit

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    It's Official - I'm not a Hobbit

    We made the Conde Nast Traveler 'top travel specialist' list this year.  Like the A-List, there are only 130-odd agencies worldwide on this one.  So, after 10 years of hard work and satisfied clients it looks like we may have "arrived".  The National Business Review has been kind enough to profile us in their paper,...

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