Standard Tours

We have some standard tours that you can use as a base for your own tour design, or you can book these tours directly in their existing format...

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1. Heritage Tours

Ruapekapeka, Russell and Roundabout

Come with our driver and guide to the Ruapekapeka Battle site where trench warfare was invented.

From there go on to the ferry to picturesque Russell and visit the church with bullet holes, Pompallier House where French influence was established, and go up Flagstaff Hill to see the site where Hone Heke dispatched the British flagpole on a number of occasions! Look across the water at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds.

Finish with a refreshing "cup of tea" in Russell.

Price:	$150 pp	Groups of four or more
	$195 pp	Groups of less than four
Duration:	3 hours

On a Mission

Trace the missionaries' footsteps across the Bay with our driver and guide. Visit the Williams Church in Paihia, go on to the early mission sites and churches in Waimate North and Kerikeri, and visit historic Kemp House, also at Kerikeri. Our "cup of tea" will be in an adjacent Kerikeri restaurant.

Have a hot beverage on us before departing on the ocean waves.

Price:	$150 pp	Groups of four or more
	$195 pp	Groups of less than four
Duration:	3 hours

A Capital Story

Our driver and guide will take you on the ferry to the site of the first capital of New Zealand and you will see the place where the first Government House was situated.

From there it's on to Kororareka (present day Russell) for stories of whalers, grog shops and resident whores!

Visit a modern day "purveyor of liquors" when we take our tea break at the historic Duke of Marlborough hotel, then look out over the water from Flagstaff Hill and see the historic sites in other places in the Bay.

Price:	$150 pp	Groups of four or more
	$195 pp	Groups of less than four
Duration:	3 hours

Treaty Times

Our guide will take you to the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi and show you the sites associated with the iconic first signing of New Zealand's founding document. You will see the Giant Waka, the Whare and the Treaty House.

Then go over the water to the site of the First Capital of New Zealand and see where government started for the modern state.

Have a farewell drink with a view of the harbour.

Price:	$150 pp	Groups of four or more
	$195 pp	Groups of less than four
Duration:	3 hours

Horotutu Hikoi

This is a walking tour of the historic town of Paihia which transports the visitor back to the formative times of the modern nation of New Zealand.

Price:	$15 pp	Adult
	$7 pp	Child
Duration:	1 hour

2. Gourmet Tours

Wine and Roses

Visit some of the main wine, food and beauty therapy spots in the Bay of Islands.

Sample wines and gourmet foods and then call in on Northland's major skin-care producer to sample and choose some natural products.

A delicious day awaits where our driver and guide will take the worry out of getting to the best places.

Price:	$150 pp	Groups of four or more
	$195 pp	Groups of less than four
Duration:	3 hours