Rural Discovery Tours, Exploring the remote South Island Queenstown New Zealand
 
   

Catlins Tours

Catlins Discovery Tours Options:

  1. Queenstown > Catlins, overnight > Queenstown
    Duration 2 days. Find out more

  2. Dunedin > Catlins, overnight > Queenstown
    Duration 2 days. Find out more

  3. Queenstown > Catlins > Dunedin or Queenstown
    Duration 1 day. Find out more

  4. Queenstown or Dunedin > Catlins overnight > Te Anau overnight > Milford > Queenstown
    Duration 3 days. Find out more
Catlins Discovery Tour Map
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Option 1

Travel from Queenstown with an overnight stay in the Catlins area, and return to Queenstown.

Rare yellow-eyed penguin
Rare yellow-eyed penguin

Day 1:

  • Hotel pick up 7.30am, Roxburgh refreshments, Nugget Point
  • Picnic lunch at Cannibal Bay beach walk
  • Purakanui Bay and Purakanui Falls, beach and bush walk
  • Overnight stay at Maclean Falls Holiday Park separate accommodation with own facilities. Optional Maclean Falls walk.
Sea Lions Cannibal or Surat Bay
Sea Lions Cannibal or Surat Bay

Day 2:

  • Cathedral Caves, tide dependant.
  • Curio Bay beach walk
  • Curio Bay Fossilised forest, tide dependant.
  • Picnic lunch or Niagara Cafe.
  • Waipapa Point Lighthouse, sealions, seals.
  • Return to Queenstown arrive approx 6pm.

Cost all inclusive of accommodation and fully catered, travel by BMW X5, $495 per person per day, includes taxes. Minimum 2 people required.

Complimentary one night stay in Queenstown Bed and Breakfast for all guests on 2 & 3 day tours ending in Queenstown, further nights by arrangement.


Option 2:

Travel from Dunedin with an overnight stay in the Catlins area, and end tour in Queenstown.

Tuatuku Bay
Tuatuku Bay

Day 1:

  • Hotel pick up 8.30am Dunedin
  • Nugget Point, refreshment stop.
  • Cannibal Bay beach walk and sealions
  • Picnic lunch or cafe. Purakanui Bay beach walk.
  • Purakanui Falls, bush walk.
  • Tautuku Beach lookout, bush walk Lake Wilkie.
  • Overnight stay at Maclean Falls Holiday Park separate accommodation with own facilities. Optional Maclean Falls walk.
Nugget Point Lighthouse
Nugget Point Lighthouse

Day 2:

  • Visit Cathedral Caves tide dependant.
  • Curio Bay beach walk
  • Curio Bay Fossilised forest tide dependant
  • Picnic lunch or Niagara Cafe.
  • Waipapa Point Lighthouse, sealions, seals.
  • Return to Queenstown arrive approx 6pm.

Cost all inclusive of accommodation and fully catered, travel by BMW X5, $495 per person per day, includes taxes. Minimum 2 people required.

Complimentary one night stay in Queenstown Bed and Breakfast for all guests on 2 & 3 day tours ending in Queenstown, further nights by arrangement.


Option 3:

Sea Lions Cannibal or Surat Bay
Sea Lions Cannibal or Surat Bay

A day tour from Queenstown includes:

  • Hotel pick up 7.30am, refreshments Roxburgh
  • Nugget Point.
  • Lunch at Owaka, then travel to Cannibal Bay beach walk and sealions.
  • Lake Wilkie, bush walk to small lake
  • Purakanui Falls, bush walk to falls, refreshments begin return journey to Queenstown
  • Arrive Queenstown drop of hotel approx 7.15pm. Travel by BMW X5.

Cost all inclusive, fully catered for the day $480 per person.


Option 4:

Papatowai coastline
Papatowai coastline

Includes option 1 or option 2 depending on tour start point, overnight in Te Anau visiting Milford Sound day 3, and return to Queenstown.

Day 3:

A relaxed day ahead as we enter the Fiordland National Park and the Eglinton Valley stopping at the Mirror Lakes boardwalk, Knobs Flat, The Divide, Monkey Creek and enter the Homer Tunnel traveling 1.2 km through to the Cleddau Valley. Our last stop before Milford is The Chasm viewing the 22m deep ravine carved by the Cleddau River.

At Milford Sound we take a 1.5 hour cruise on the fiord, enjoy your time aboard viewing wildlife and the majestic scenery, lunch is available aboard.

Please enquire for a price.

Complimentary one night stay in Queenstown Bed and Breakfast for all guests on 2 & 3 day tours ending in Queenstown, further nights by arrangement.